Poll: energy consumers want choice
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- April
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Nearly 93 percent of New Yorkers think consumers should have a choice of electricity suppliers, according to a new poll from the Retail Energy Supply Association. The association is a trade group representing companies that provide a range of competitive energy services in the state.
Syracuse University, which conducted the survey of 550 New York homeowners between March 30 and April 2, also found that:
—80 percent support policies that promote competition.
—40 percent said they might switch energy suppliers in the future.
—More than 82 percent said green power was important to them, and more than 50 percent said they would pay extra for it.
—A lack of information is a key reason why some people are reluctant to switch energy suppliers.
“This result provides overwhelming evidence that customers want choice. This should guide policymakers in New York toward implementing initiatives that will help educate consumers about how to make the right energy choices,” Jay L. Kooper, vice president and state chair of the association, said in a statement.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
