The current low-carbon blend is mixed with coal at a plant at Gadsden, Alabama. Under the programme, residential customers buy the green power in 50 kilowatt-hour (kWh) blocks for $2.25 each. Commercial and industrial customers can buy it in 100kWh blocks at $4.50 per block. In all, the company sold 550 megawatt hours of blocks last year.
Alabama looks to expand timber programme
Alabama Power, a unit of the Southern Company, the fourth-largest utility firm in the US, says it may expand a programme that allows consumers to pay for electricity generated from low-carbon resources harvested from the state's 22.5 million acres of timberland.
12 February 2009 23:00 GMT
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25 November 2012 9:24 GMT