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MY 5/14 GAZETTE LETTER ADDRESSING MR. GRIMM'S RECENT "SOLARIZE" GAZETTE LETTER
I'd like to address two issues raised in Mr. Grimm's recent letter to the Gazette.
1) Mr. Grimm states that the current replacement of village utility poles by Con Edison is the "result of efforts by the mayor to reinforce the grid" and prevent future outages. The fact is that Con Edison had long ago outlined plans for pole replacement, new wiring, etc. in their Fortifying the Future initiative, committing well over a billion dollars to storm-harden the grid (http://bit.ly/1nQkqVe). Yet Mr. Grimm asks us to believe that this would not have occurred without the mayor's "efforts", stretching credibility to the limits. It is also important to note that the village's high priced consultants have repeatedly recommended that the power lines be buried. The mayor, however, is on record that such burial would cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Instead, both he and the board have chosen to spend approximately a million in taxpayer dollars on the Croton Point Avenue "Improvement" Project and bike lanes.
2) Mr. Grimm also states that "The village is exploring group power purchase incentives" and that these have been used in several midwestern communities with substantial savings for customers. What Mr. Grimm did not tell you, however, is this. Should such a group power purchase incentive occur, such as the one advocated by Sustainable Westchester, every resident who still uses Con Edison as their energy provider would automatically be included in the group-buying effort. In short, your provider will be automatically chosen for you--with no input from you at all. If you don't want to be in the program, you must affirmatively opt out of it. As to any alleged savings, you are strongly encouraged to read all about this and more in an April 4th article from the Examiner News available at http://bit.ly/1P6N5sf
Editor's note: An anonymous comment claims that the aforementioned information from the Con Edison website and the Examiner News article, is "nothing but lies". You are encouraged to contact Con Edison and The Examiner News directly.
YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN READING MARK FRANZOSO'S LETTER ADDRESSING MR. GRIMM http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/05/mark-franzoso-gazette-ltr-corrects-mr.html
I'd like to address two issues raised in Mr. Grimm's recent letter to the Gazette.
1) Mr. Grimm states that the current replacement of village utility poles by Con Edison is the "result of efforts by the mayor to reinforce the grid" and prevent future outages. The fact is that Con Edison had long ago outlined plans for pole replacement, new wiring, etc. in their Fortifying the Future initiative, committing well over a billion dollars to storm-harden the grid (http://bit.ly/1nQkqVe). Yet Mr. Grimm asks us to believe that this would not have occurred without the mayor's "efforts", stretching credibility to the limits. It is also important to note that the village's high priced consultants have repeatedly recommended that the power lines be buried. The mayor, however, is on record that such burial would cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Instead, both he and the board have chosen to spend approximately a million in taxpayer dollars on the Croton Point Avenue "Improvement" Project and bike lanes.
2) Mr. Grimm also states that "The village is exploring group power purchase incentives" and that these have been used in several midwestern communities with substantial savings for customers. What Mr. Grimm did not tell you, however, is this. Should such a group power purchase incentive occur, such as the one advocated by Sustainable Westchester, every resident who still uses Con Edison as their energy provider would automatically be included in the group-buying effort. In short, your provider will be automatically chosen for you--with no input from you at all. If you don't want to be in the program, you must affirmatively opt out of it. As to any alleged savings, you are strongly encouraged to read all about this and more in an April 4th article from the Examiner News available at http://bit.ly/1P6N5sf
Editor's note: An anonymous comment claims that the aforementioned information from the Con Edison website and the Examiner News article, is "nothing but lies". You are encouraged to contact Con Edison and The Examiner News directly.
YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN READING MARK FRANZOSO'S LETTER ADDRESSING MR. GRIMM http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/05/mark-franzoso-gazette-ltr-corrects-mr.html
The claim that 200 Crotonites signed up was wrong too am I correct? Will you be addressing that? Linda
ReplyDeleteThere were additional items that needed correction and or clarification. Yes.
DeleteThanks for doing this. Linda
ReplyDeletethanks for posting. as it turns out I needed some of this.
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