Soon Entergy customers will have the option to match some or get all of their electricity usage from renewable energy sources. Director of regulatory affairs Elizabeth Ingram says the Green Select program starts in May with customers able to choose from receiving 25 to up to 100 percent of their power from facilities like the Capital Region Solar site in West Baton Rouge.
“There’ll be an extra fee on their bill to do that, but it allows them to have supplied their energy from renewable sources,” said Ingram.
The Entergy Green Select program makes renewable energy available to people who rent their homes or are unable to install solar panels. Customers will have to pay a slight surcharge depending on which tier they select.
“For customers that elect to have all of their energy matched with renewable sources, it’s an extra half a cent per kilowatt-hour,” she explained.
Ingram says roughly 30 percent of the energy supplied to customers comes from clean sources and Green Select should help increase that number as Entergy looks to reduce its carbon emissions by 50 percent over the next eight years from where they were in the year 2000, with a net-zero emissions goal by 2050.
“We’ve had significant reductions in our emissions over the last 20 years and we continue to work towards further reductions,” Ingram said. “So, this is just one additional tool we wanted to bring customers.”
For more information, you can visit the Entergy website.
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