Definitely not a bad deal at all! For every 1000 kWh you use you enjoy a free $15? I’ll take it :)

If you’d like to email me about the tabbed sidebar, I’ll talk about it with you! Mine is hard coded in, no plugin.

Good question regarding bond ratings! I should ask a PECO PR person :)

And, very good point on the “true” 6%. I didn’t even think about that, which is silly, because taxes are a huge part of the investment return! So that makes this 6% more like 7.1% at 15% capital gains! Good return, indeed :)

Yeah, perhaps they are counting on people forgetting.

I tend to lean towards the reason that they are motivated to do this to cut down on bad debts. They get your money up front and can do either capital investments in their infrastructure or put the money away and earn some interest on it. Meanwhile, they offset any bad debts they could incur because of increased prices in the next few years.

Maybe I am giving them too much credit? :)

Totally off-topic question: I’ve been looking around a bit for a plugin to create a tabbed sidebar widget. Unfortunately, all I’ve found so far is one that apparently hasn’t been updated to work with WP 2.8 yet.

What did you use to create yours?
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Depending on how the IRS construes this (probably as a discount on services, and not interest income), you will probably earn a “true” 6%, rather than the post-tax equivalent – even better.
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I guess you could still forget if you moved and then you’d be out of luck.
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