Gary Connett, GRE's director of member services and marketing, pointed out that
the electric water heater program serves many clients who live in rural areas of the state without any access to natural gas.
Not exact matches
Research by Fresh Energy, a Minnesota - based nonprofit that is also the publisher of Midwest Energy News, found that the
electric storage
water heater program operated by Great River Energy (GRE) emits substantially more carbon than
heaters using natural gas or propane, because the utility still depends on coal for two - thirds of its generation.
The company's Wellspring
program provides customers an opportunity to buy and support wind power, he noted, and something along those lines for
electric water heater customers could work.