Buy Green Energy

Some power companies provide an optional service called green pricing that allows customers to pay a small premium in exchange for electricity generated from clean renewable green energy sources.

Buy green energy.

If you are a customer of one of the 850 utilities in the u s. Voluntary market defines green power as electricity produced from solar wind geothermal biogas eligible biomass and low impact small hydroelectric sources. The majority of green pricing programs charge a higher price per kilowatt hour to support an increased percentage of renewable sources or to buy discrete kilowatt hour blocks of renewable energy. In most states you can buy clean power through one or more of the following programs.

Minnesota utility customers can buy small amounts of green power for as little as 1 50 a month more or buy as much as 100 percent of their electricity usage. For the average home a month of 100 percent green power would cost about 6 to 14 more than traditional energy sources. That offer a green power program you do not need to go through an outside supplier to purchase renewable energy instead you can purchase recs through your electrical utility. Green power is a subset of renewable energy and represents those renewable energy resources and technologies that provide the highest environmental benefit.