Pennsylvania  residents will be able to choose their electricity provider over the next few years.
Hey Dillsburg...that means you! You can sign up for the Electric Choice Enrollment at GPU's
web-site.

There are probaby 3 factors in choosing an  "electricity provider":

1 - Price:  show me the money!

2 - Service:  this is a very popular word which comes
                     from the latin word "servientae" which
                     means "the person you talk to after
                     navigating through a cumbersome series
                     of menus on your touch-tone phone".

3 - Safety:  TMI is very close to being sold.  Hopefully the new owners
                    will not take the  "one nuclear accident
                    every 20 years" slogan of the last owners to heart.

Number 3 should be the most important.  However, most people will just try to find the lowest pricing available...and
so will I.  Albeit, there is an alternative.  The fine folks at Green Mountain Energy Resources will keep your microwave
on using wind, water, air, solar energy, and more.  You can request  service by filling out a short application at their website.

I started to fill out the form...then noticed that the prices were promised to be between 9 and 19% higher than the average
electricity provider.  That sounds like alot of money.

Let's see....the TMI "near accident" was in 1979.  Twenty years later would be....1999.  I'll need lots of money for my
big Y2K party: Show me the money!