NORTHEAST OHIO PUBLIC ENERGY COUNCIL

NOPEC
Member Community Update

July 24, 2009

 TO ALL DEO MEMBER NOPEC COMMUNITIES
GAS PURCHASES – DEO AREA

Dear NOPEC Member Communities:

There has been some confusion regarding mailings that you are getting soliciting your municipalities to sell electricity to you at a reduced rate outside of NOPEC.  To clarify:  If you have building accounts that use less than 700,000 kilowatt hours per year, you should have already received opt-out notices from NOPEC for those buildings and we hope for the sake of our mutual interests that you will not opt-out of the NOPEC program eligible buildings.  As a NOPEC customer your eligible accounts will automatically be enrolled in our electric savings program unless you either 1) return the opt-out postcard or 2) enroll with a different supplier.  We ask that you do neither of these so you receive the savings we have negotiated for you.  If you do nothing, your eligible buildings will be enrolled and your community will get a discount on the electric bills for these accounts.

NOPEC is a public non-profit entity and you are a member.  We charge no dues or fees to any member community for the good work we do.  The future of our ability to offer good rates depends upon keeping our load as large as possible and we are offering an excellent deal for you and your facilities.  Regarding the building accounts that you have that use more than 700,000 kilowatt hours per year, our supplier has indicated that it would consider supplying you electricity for those building accounts on an opt-in basis at the same rate we are offering you in the opt-out program. 

We are working on the final details of this offer and will be back to you next week.  In the meantime, if you could determine if you have an interest, I would appreciate knowing of your interest and which of these larger accounts you are interested in getting served by NOPEC’s supplier at a discount.

Thank you for your continued support of NOPEC.

NOPEC works!

Leigh Herington
Executive Director

FINANCIAL DATA

None at this time.

Here are some other numbers and web addresses that might prove useful:

Dominion Retail, Inc: 1-866-726-5762
www.retail.dom.com

Dominion East Ohio Gas 1-800-362-7557
www.dom.com

Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO): 1-866-632-1314
www.puc.state.oh.us

Ohio Consumers’ Counsel: 1-877-742-5622
www.pickocc.org