Let's clarify that again: City Light's "Green Up" program allows City Light to extract extra cash from a few naive, idealistic customers without City Light having to absolutely anything to earn it. City Light knows that the number of people who will sign up to send them extra cash will be small enough that the fraction of power they consume is smaller than the fraction of power that City Light already gets from renewable sources. City Light can claim that it is sending the power from those renewable sources to those customers, while the rest of us uncaring jerks get the evil electrons from the bad non-renewable sources. Great capitalist thinking, City Light; I wish I could buy stock in you.

David Wright, I'm sorry to hear that you consider those who are willing to pay a little extra for green power 'naive'. I am afraid that your comment standing alone on this is a sign that few people understand that the money spent on green power from Seattle city light goes to aquiring new sources of green power... ie. buying more local renewable energy facilities. This is going into a fund that is monitored by the city council, and part of me thinks maybe it's okay to let Seattle city light make more money off of green power than non-renewables anyway. Currently I am unable to provide my own green power, and the capital investment I could spend on doing that would go to my apartment, if I spend more money per month, but am able to contribute to some sort of change in that direction, well, it works for me. I just hope that your decisions surrounding this subject are coming from a specific knowledge of what the money you could spend on green power goes to.