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February 20 public info session on renewable electricity program in Gardiner

by Frances Marion Platt
February 17, 2021
in Politics & Government
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February 20 public info session on renewable electricity program in Gardiner

In December 2020, the Gardiner Town Board authorized the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Katonah-based Joule Community Power to serve as the town’s administrator to implement a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program. The program is intended to enable Gardiner residents and small businesses to purchase greener electricity from renewable sources by pooling their purchasing power.

A virtual public information presentation on the CCA, followed by a question-and-answer session, will be hosted by Hudson Valley Community Power this Saturday, February 20 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Those wishing to attend can find more information about the event at www.facebook.com/events/1107292199722782, and link to the meeting at https://tinyurl.com/gardiner20feb. 

Among the issues likely to be raised at this presentation is the question of whether or not the electricity supplied under this new program will indeed be cheaper, as advertised, as well as cleaner. Misha Fredericks, a member of the Climate Smart Gardiner Task Force and recent appointee to the town’s Environmental Conservation Commission, has expressed concern over the fact that participation in the program will be “opt-out” rather than “opt-in.” Fredericks contends that participants in other towns served by Hudson Valley Community Power, including New Paltz, pay a higher rate per kilowatt-hour for their electricity than they did previously. “Many people hard-hit by this pandemic are going to be dire straits as another financial burden is cast upon them,” she told Hudson Valley One.

Based in Beacon, Hudson Valley Community Power currently serves roughly 25,000 households and small businesses in ten communities with 100 percent New York State-produced renewable power. The current supply contract expires on June 30, 2021. Participating communities will go out for bid for a new CCA rate this spring – to be joined this time by Gardiner, with an expected program launch date of July 1, 2021.

For more information about the Hudson Valley Community Power program, visit www.hudsonvalleycommunitypower.com, call (845) 859-9099 or e-mail info@hudsonvalleycommunitypower.com.

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Frances Marion Platt

Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

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