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    • FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE COOP

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    • Why should I join “Green Electric Buying Coop, Inc.” (GEBCo, Inc.)?

    Not everyone can have a windmill in their backyard, afford a solar collector on their roof, geo-exchange in the ground (alternative home heating), or major energy conservation improvements. However, Montana Code Annotated 2005, Section 69-8-1001, et seq. allows certain consumers in the service areas of Investor Owned Utilities to come together and form a cooperative to serve “. . . as a supplier or promoter of alternative energy and conservation programs.” This is your chance to buy clean, affordable, reliable energy or to get more efficient so you use less of it.

    • How will the “Green Electric Buying Coop, Inc.” help everyone get a piece of the clean energy boom?

    Current Montana law does not allow GEBCo to own generation or transmission equipment. We will work to change that. GEBCo can however buy or finance renewable energy. GEBCo’s policy will be to first foster renewable generation on publicly-owned or tribal land. That way everybody benefits from the reduction in fuel and pollution control costs because other than to produce windmills or solar collectors, there are no fuel or pollution control costs necessary to make electricity from the sun or wind. The cost reduction will help keep taxes down for everyone--all citizens in a city or county or for tribal members on a reservation. Lease payments for the windmills will go to the public.

    Next we will foster jointly-owned wind projects to maximize the number of farmers getting to participate in the program so that more than a few will have an additional crop to sell. Every farmer with good wind could have a windmill that would provide more energy than his or her farm could use. But there might not be a market for it. If you are part of GEBCo you can help provide a market by purchasing green power or “green tags.” The later represent the environmental attributes of renewable electricity production.

    Also an integral part of the policy will be to foster photovoltaic electricity conductors or solar hot water heating units on a substantial number of roofs of individual coop members as determined by lot. If a coop member does not use all of the electricity, we hope to be able to pass the excess over to other coop members. When such an installation is paid for from money gradually paid in as electricity is used by the member whose roof the collector occupies, that person’s bill will drop to zero. They will own the collector, subject to the provision that the coop will own electricity they do not use under the net metering system. The coop will use excess money and new bond issues to put more solar collectors on other roofs as needed to balance system wind-solar load. Because we will have “gone to school” on the first collector projects, that should helped bring the cost down for subsequent solar-roof owners.

    What other benefits do I get from the “Green Electric Buying Coop, Inc.?”

    (1) Reduced CO2 so you personally will comply with the Kyoto Protocol, helping reverse global warming; (2) Cleaner air, less mercury in our water; (3) More jobs than would be created by an equivalent investment in coal-fired generation; (4) More water for farmers and recreation; (5) Economic development; (6) Strengthened rural communities; (7) Increased national security; (8) Lower energy prices in the long run; (9) Conservation financing for your community; and (10) A better future for our kids.

    • Who may join the “Green Electric Buying Coop, Inc.?”

    Montana residential and small commercial customers of Investor Owned Utilities may join. A small commercial customer has an average monthly demand of less than 100 kilowatts.

    • What if I am a member of a rural electric cooperative?

    Until law allows you to be GEBCo members, you will remain “green tag” supporters of NewWorldWindPower LLC (NWWP). NWWP will seek cooperation from rural electric cooperatives on your behalf to foster the purchase of renewable energy generators for you too. When the windmills are paid for from electricity bought by you or your electric cooperative, they will be deeded over to your REA if it has cooperated in transmitting power to and from your generating unit, and if it establishes a rate schedule for you that reduces the cost of your power by the cost of the windmill, so you do not have to pay twice for your utility infrastructure.

    • How will the “Green Electric Buying Coop, Inc.” be governed?

    By the Montana law quoted above, coop by-laws, and this initial Board: Steve Corrick, Missoula; Pat Dopler, Red Lodge; Pat & Vern Klingman, Billings; and Tracy Velazquez, Bozeman.

    • Who has been hired to be legal advisor to GEBCo?

    Tom Towe of Towe, Ball, Enright, Mackey & Sommerfeld, Billings.

  • Click here to sign up to join green electricity buying cooperative (GEBCo)

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