Central Vermont Public Service
Customers may choose to buy 25 percent, 50 percent, or all of their electricity through CVPS Cow Powerâ„¢. Customers who choose CVPS Cow Powerâ„¢ will be charged an extra 4 cents per kilowatt-hour. Customers using 500 kWh per month who choose to receive 25 percent of their power under the Cow Power rider would pay only $5 a month more. At 100 percent, the charge would be $20 per month.
This is not quite as cool as it seems – you aren’t really buying green (brown?) electricity. You’re paying a premium to fund a scheme to subsidise development of methane generators. Still, you get a bumper sticker for the SUV.