Make Renewable Energy at Home!
Solar energy is a renewable source of energy, and has become quite common in areas that have a dependable number of days of sunshine such as California and Arizona. Solar heat collectors can be seen on roofs all over the Southwest of America.
SB173, sponsored by Sen. Scott McCoy, D-Salt Lake, outlines a plan that would require a utility to provide 25 percent of its power output from renewable sources by 2025. The bill also provides options, in the form of energy certificates, to achieve targets and an "off-ramp" clause that allows companies an exclusion if costs become excessive. Financial penalties may also be assessed in the event of a company's failure to meet goals. Municipal power providers are exempt from the requirements.
As you can see, there are many alternative energy sources out there. What they can be used for is just about as limitless as traditional forms of energy.
Exchange traded funds can be a nice alternative for folks looking to invest in renewable energy without high fees. Because there is a transaction fee associated with this purchase, it is important to keep those fees in check. They have annual fees ranging from 0.4%-0.65%. Share must be purchased through a broker, so purchase fees depend on the broker.
European countries have already proven wind to be a cost-effective, reliable and non-polluting energy source. The wind-energy industry is forging ahead in these countries, helped by government policies that encourage more clean-energy production. In the last year, for example, Germany installed eight times more wind-energy turbines than Canada has in total. And in less than a decade, Spain has gone from having no experience in wind energy to being a world leader. It took just six months for a Spanish company to install a new 50 megawatt wind farm near Chicago. That's nearly three times more installed wind power than is found in all of Ontario.
The primary benefit of using renewable bio diesel energy is that its emissions are considerably lower. Carbon monoxide and other harmful hydrocarbon emissions are reduced by 20-40 percent with bio diesel energy. There are areas where farmers grow corn, sugar beets, switch grass, sugar cane and corn stalk for the express purpose of providing energy for fuel cells and combustion engines. These products produce ethanol, otherwise known as grain alcohol, which is becoming more and more common an automotive fuel resource. E85, an automotive fuel, is made up of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. It is now being sold to the general public.
Solar power is generated when utilities are in highest demand ? In terms of the energy to make these solar cells, he said that in about the same time it takes to pay them off ? This, in turn, provides alternative energy that is pollution-free for 25 to 50 years. Pereira noted that increasing the use of solar energy is a viable option for UCLA?s campus.
Wheels and later turbines have been used to harness power from moving water for centuries and the source of this energy is gravity. Dams and tidal barrages also use gravity to provide the potential to drive turbines to generate electricity.
As exciting as all this sounds, the reality is that the distributed community renewables market is still in its nascent stage. To date, most of the projects that have been completed are community wind projects in the Midwest (particularly Minnesota) and small-scale biofuel facilities. Although the model appears to be taking root, spreading to more states and beginning to include other types of renewables, there is still considerable need for education, particularly for potential investors who are not from the energy industry.
In December, Congress passed an energy bill that mandated a fivefold increase in ethanol production by 2022, to decrease the nation?s dependence on petroleum. Ethanol production is on the rise in other nations, as well.
Mr Brown has given a very large green light to nuclear energy but he has been told that he should have made the decision ten years ago. It will take ten years for any significant extra nuclear energy to come on stream in the United Kingdom.
Mr Massey-Green believes geothermal power has a great future. In New Zealand it provides 7 per cent of power needs and this could rise to as much as 15 per cent. Some in the market believe that Scope will float in the first half of 2006.
After eleven years of an energy policy that comprised of ?it will be all right on the night? Oops; this was supposed no problem because it can be safely governed by the market, according to the 2003 Energy White Paper. Oops; this is how the market is actually handling it.
Wind generation increased to 26 billion kilowatthours, up from 18 billion kilowatthours in 2005. This moved wind’s share of the renewable generation market from just 5 percent to 7 percent in one year.
By state, the largest increases in renewable generation were for hydroelectric conventional power in California and the northwestern states: Idaho, Oregon and Washington (Tables 5 and 6). Hydroelectric conventional power accounted for 18 billion kilowatthours of the 27 billion kilowatthours increase in renewable generation. However, the increase in wind generation was also notable. Wind increased 8 billion kilowatthours between 2005 and 2006, spread across a number of states.
