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I just got this email and I worry about Arcadia Power's effect on SF Community Choice Aggregation, as well as other CCAs who might be getting this or similar messages? CCA lets the city buy power as an aggregate. It looks like Arcadia Power could take customers out of that aggregate, putting them in a separate system and drive prices up for those who remain?  Or, does Arcadia Power somehow augment renewables in the system? Focus is on wind.

Here is their web site,

http://faq.arcadiapower.com/knowledge_base/topics/how-does-this-work-free-and-premium

What do people think or know? Should we issue a warning? Is this even legal?

Don

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Please take note I did not click on their link below due to recent events, but I Googled the company and came up with the above link, fyi. de

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Subject:	Re: Changes to electricity in San Francisco
Date:	Tue, 16 May 2017 20:05:34 +0000
From:	Arcadia Power via Daily Kos <campaigns@dailykos.com>
Reply-To:	campaigns@dailykos.com
To:	done7777@sbcglobal.net

Don, We know you’re busy, and getting busier, and don’t really have time to think about your utility bill. For 100 years we’ve been conditioned to get the power bill, make sure it isn’t too high, pay it manually, and repeat every month. There aren’t any options available, the bill is hard to understand, and we don’t really know what we’re paying for. Worst of all, when those bills are high (or really low!), we don’t really know why. We get it. Someone needed to flip the industry on its head and make clean energy just as easy as buying organic milk or fair-trade coffee. That’s why my cofounder and I started Arcadia Power. With Arcadia, you finally have a choice when it comes to your home’s energy, whether you live in a home or apartment. Our service aims to be your home energy advisor, working in the background to support clean energy, new solar, get efficient products into your home – and most importantly, transition us from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy. Once you join, every time you flip on the light switch you will support renewable energy projects. We do that by automatically matching your home energy use to clean energy from wind farms across the country – helping those wind farms stay afloat for the long-term. Each month you have the option of paying your bill by credit card or bank debit, automatically, so you’ll never miss a bill. And we actually benchmark your data, so you can see how you rank when it comes to the community and whether you’re higher or lower than the average. With Arcadia, you only need to think about your energy once (when you sign up!), and we’ll take care of the rest because you shouldn’t need a PhD in energy to fight climate change. You just need to join the thousands across the country – in all 50 states - who are supporting renewable energy with us. Join our community today and we’ll send you 4 free energy-saving LED light bulbs as a thank you. Sign up online in 2 minutes >> Thank you for all you do, Kiran Bhatraju Co-founder & CEO at Arcadia Power Paid for by Arcadia Power Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612. Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address or to stop receiving emails from Daily Kos, please click here.