Green Power?

Is buying green power the right way to go?  Is buying green power an excuse for power companies to build factories while not having to pay for anything?  Green power is a good thing to do first off.  It supports the production of wind turbines, solar pvs, biomass plants, and on.  But why is it that the utility companies rely on the consumer to have these built?  Can’t the utility company use some of there revenue to help build these plants to help out the consumer!  So much pressure is put on the individual to change but where real change occurs is at a massive level i.e. the utility companies.  [...]

Wind turbines

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There is huge demand for renewable energy now but the fad right now is wind turbines.  Why?  In order to have one of these turbines it requires a lot of money, good wind and a lot of space.  When I work at events selling and talking about renewable energy people always come up to me and ask about wind turbines.  What these people don’t realize is that these wind turbines are much more expensive than solar or the program I am with.  For a home to produce enough energy from a wind turbine they would spend roughly 30-50k.  Where as buying a solar system for 20k.
However that shouldn’t be the [...]