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Pilot Programs

By CHRIS KRAUL
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A sister company of San Diego Gas & Electric will participate in a Massachusetts pilot project offering residents and businesses a choice of whom they buy energy from, to help it prepare for California’s soon-to-be-deregulated energy market. Pilot programs are also underway in New Hampshire and Illinois.

Beginning Jan. 1, Enova Energy, a subsidiary of SDG&E;’s parent Enova Corp., and five other power companies will offer 10,000 Massachusetts residents and business customers three options: low-price, environmental sensitivity and other, including variable-rate pricing or added services.

To attract customers, Enova and the other power providers in the Massachusetts program will offer discounts of between 4% and 18% off current rates. Companies including Enova say they hope to make a profit, but they will absorb any losses on the power sales and equipment outlays resulting from the program.

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Chris Kraul

Chris Kraul covered South America for the Los Angeles Times from his base in Bogota, Colombia. He joined the paper in 1987 and was business editor of the San Diego edition until it closed in 1992. He then began covering the border and Mexican economies until his assignment to The Times’ Mexico City bureau in 2001. He reopened the paper’s Bogota bureau in 2006. He has also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida and also has been a reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, San Diego Union-Tribune and the San Diego Business Journal.

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