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Thursday, March 6, 2008
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by Steve Berberich | Staff Writer
Silver Spring citizen Homer Smith and added affronted letter writers to The Gazette don’t anticipate abundant of Pepco’s generosity. The energy-saving bulbs are broadly awash in added food and Smith said he accepted them to appearance up in abatement food ‘‘before long.”
They have. For example, Dollar Dollar Plus in Gaithersburg sells three 24-watt bunched beaming bulbs — anniversary the agnate of a 100-watt accepted beaming ball — for $1.25, according to a abundance clerk.
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On its Web site, the Dollar Abundance says it sells the 24-watt bulbs for 72 cents wholesale.
In comparison, with the Pepco discount, Home Depot sells a 23-watt bunched beaming ball for $3.47. The abundance does action added array than some abatement stores, affairs the N:Vision cast bulbs in three tones of ablaze from 9 watts — according to 40 watts in a accepted ball — to 32-watt three-way bulbs, according to 150 watts.
The swirly, screw-in bulbs are additionally accessible at addition abatement store, Family Dollar. Spokesman Joshua Braverman said he could not affirm a constant amount ambit at Family Dollar stores, but said, ‘‘Our bulbs are beneath big-ticket than what I acquisition at big-box home advance food or bounded grocery stores. Our ablaze bulbs are Sylvania so they are a name-brand product.”
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Over its life, the new ball saves about $42 compared with a accepted incandescent, according to Pepco, as it uses 75 percent beneath electricity and lasts up to 10 times longer.
By alms the discounts, accommodating utilities in Maryland, including Pepco, Baltimore Gas & Electric and Allegheny Power, accept affronted added use of the bulbs by consumers. The accompaniment Public Service Commission accustomed the abatement programs, including the surcharges, while acquainted the allowances of accretion use of the bulbs.
BGE, which discounts the bulbs in some Costco and Home Depot food about Baltimore, adds a customs of 67 cents to bills of anniversary ‘‘typical residential chump application 1,000 application a month,” said backer Linda Foy.
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BGE set a ambition for its accommodating food to advertise 250,000 bulbs. As of Feb. 17, Costco and Home Depot barter had purchased about 950,000 bulbs, additionally discounted by $1.50 in the BGE program, Foy said.
Foy said the ball affairs and added genitalia of BG&E’s Smart Savings Affairs appear a year ago, ‘‘tie in nicely” to Gov. Martin O’Malley’s claiming for the accompaniment to abate activity burning by 15 percent by 2015.
In Western Maryland, Allegheny Power got too aggressive, according to its barter and customer advocates. In backward 2007 and aboriginal this year, Allegheny mailed two bunched beaming bulbs to anniversary of its 220,000 Maryland customers, in a affairs accustomed by the PSC. Barter abounding the aggregation with affronted belletrist afterwards seeing a customs of 96 cents per ages that would about accomplish them pay $11.52 for the bulbs over the advance of the year. The uproar affected Allegheny to accomplish refunds.
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‘‘Mistakes will be made, as we saw with Allegheny Power’s contempo ablaze ball program,” Johanna E. Neumann, apostle for the Maryland Public Interest Research Group, told the Senate Finance Committee aftermost month. ‘‘Our account companies charge to get acclimated to the actuality that these programs are actuality to stay. It’s the PSC’s job to accomplish abiding programs get implemented appropriately and that account companies, not the ratepayers, buck the amount of a awry implementation.”
This address originally appeared in The Business Gazette.
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