The phrase
"green electricity" refers to electricity that is produced using renewable energy sources, such as solar power, wind power, or hydroelectric power. It is called "green" because it does not harm the environment or contribute to climate change.
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The taking
of green electricity from the person that's been using it before you, so that you can have it — what kind of action is that?
The fundamental issue
for green electricity companies and for us as a country — the need to build new sources of electricity.
With regards websites carbon impact — we have ours hosted in a data centre which we supply
with green electricity, so at least at that end it's zero carbon.
This has been achieved to 47 per cent through a combination of energy conservation and
using green electricity suppliers.
Dutch trains will start running on wind energy from next year and the country's entire rail network could be fully powered
by green electricity by 2018.
Where food waste is collected separately it is usually treated using a method called anaerobic digestion, which
produces green electricity.
They are beginning to generate and
share green electricity over the energy internet, and share cars, bikes and public transport on the evolving logistics internet.
Even though that money goes into building new sources
of green electricity, the stuff we desperately need.
Reduce unnecessary use of private cars — use cars that are no bigger than we need, move toward highly efficient cars such as hybrids, or use electric cars powered
by green electricity.
Lunette believes in sustainable and environmentally friendly products and development which is reflected in the use or recycled materials to create the Lunette cup and the use of
green electricity in our offices.
The Co-operators is choosing 100 per
cent green electricity for the head offices of subsidiaries Co-operators Life...
by bullfrogpowering three offices and one warehouse with
green electricity as part of Sodexo's global mandate to reduce its carbon emissions by 34 % by 2024, compared to a 2011 baseline.
The whole point of the FIT program, IMHO, was to make electricity production in Ontario more accessible to communities, homeowners, schools, farmers, etc... by creating a standard, long - term contract and process for selling
green electricity into the provincial grid.
Check out our free Buyers» Guide to
green electricity tariffs for more information 3 - Support Co-ops You can find co-ops producing most sorts of goods from food to fridge freezers.
With
green electricity solutions, First Climate offers a flexible and simple solution to offset emissions using Guarantees of Origin (GoOs), International Renewable Energy Certificates (IRECs) and North American Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs).
To avoid double counting, this should then be deducted from the target amount of
green electricity production in the country of export (the Netherlands, for example).
Thirty - eight universities
buy green electricity from the grid (of which eight buy 100 per cent green energy), while 37 generate some of their electricity on - site, and the number with CHP installed is also 37.
The coalition will target research and development (R&D) in
green electricity generation and storage, transportation, industrial use, agriculture, and energy systems efficiency.
He is now the sole shareholder of Ecotricity Group Ltd,
providing green electricity across the UK, and the value of his company was estimated to be worth at least # 57m.
Through the agreement, Bullfrog Power's generators will put 100 per cent
green electricity onto the electricity grid to match the amount of electricity used in the eight aforementioned Co-operators offices.
What matters is the protection of the environment, which is served just as much by
importing green electricity from other Member States as using domestic sources.
It also could be valuable as a feedstock for
generating green electricity and as an ingredient in environmentally friendly fuel cells to power cars and trucks.
Support clean energy projects by
greening your electricity supply, offsetting your carbon emissions and creating new projects in locations of your choice, such as your supply chain communities or key markets.
If we don't have to extract oil out of the ground to run cars or if we're using anaerobic digestion to
make green electricity, we're enhancing energy and food security.»
All they would need to do is divert funding from the Yucca mountain nuclear waste repository or from the many green handouts to the car industry and / or other
green electricity initiatives.
We take the money our customers spend on their electricity and we use it to build windmills to put
more green electricity into the grid each year.
---------- Hi Simon, I agree with you, green tariffs should be
about green electricity supply and building new sources (both preferably, not one or the other though).
As such the measure was both suitable to achieve the goal of promoting
domestic green electricity production, and that it did not go any further than necessary to achieve this goal of domestic production support.
One major element of the new tripartite program is to build border - crossing power lines able to carry 5,000 gigawatts, to make it easier to ship
green electricity back and forth.
That's why, contrary to what you say at the end it is indeed a «break even» scenario —
where green electricity is just passed from one place to another without the creation of anything new.
«As Simons continues to expand across Canada, we're proud to be providing their newest locations with Canada's highest quality
green electricity product,» said Ron Seftel, CEO, Bullfrog Power.