Echo
Women in power increasing in power industries
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By Haley Walker
Walkerh4@msu.edu
Great Lakes Echo
Sept. 18, 2009
More than three-quarters of the women in a recent survey said they pay the electric bills in their households. Women… …who pay household electricity bills – 77 percent
…willing to pay $30 more a month for clean energy – 53 percent
…who have conserved electricity – 97 percent
Source: Women’s Survey on Energy and the Environment
Almost all of them said they felt obligated to reduce electricity use. And more than half were willing to spend $30 more on electricity bills for clean energy, according to the June survey by the Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment and another group, Women Impacting Public Policy.