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"Paying Extra for Green Power, and Getting Ads Instead" [1]

When electric utility customers pay extra for "green power certificates," are they really getting green power?

Kate Galbraith reports for the New York Times November 16, 2009. [2]
 

Energy & Fuel [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Public [5]
Source: NYTimes [2], 11/17/2009
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/paying-extra-green-power-and-getting-ads-instead [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/business/energy-environment/17power.html?ref=energy-environment [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [4] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [5] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81