[Chat] Power company rep

[Rob Carlson]

They're a wholesaler.  Their whole schtick is to sell you a electricity 
package that's more analogous to a fixed rate with overages cell phone 
plan than a pay-as-you-use like your current BGE service.  They come out 
because under deregulation, if you buy their package they can force BGE 
to buy a bigger share of their wholesale power generation.

Not to be overly cynical, but I assume these guys have done a ton more 
math than the average consumer and you're not likely to actually turn 
any savings in the end on the complicated plans they sell no matter 
what you pick.

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Rob Carlson  rob at vees.net  http://vees.net/

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Greg Alexander wrote:

> Has anyone else had a guy come around today in a yellow embroided 
> company shirt saying he was with the company who supplies power to 
> BGE?  I cannot remember the name of the company he said he was with 
> (I'm on Claritin for allergies and out of it).  He said I may be 
> eligible for an eight percent discount off my bill and he needed to 
> see a copy of my latest BGE bill.  I told him that we opted out of all 
> paper bills and pay online and he said OK and walked off.  Kind of 
> weird...
>