Normally, we are never happy to lose a member of our renewable energy customer community.  This week, a long time customer in Virginia contacted me to cancel his service.  When I found out why, I was happy about it.  He was cancelling because he is now producing all of his own electricity at home using solar panels and a small wind turbine.

While the core of our service is to provide wind energy from large utility scale wind...

Summertime is fast approaching, and for some parts of the country, summertime temperatures have already arrived!  I find it valuable to review energy saving tips each season ; to save both energy and money!

The Consumer Energy Center lists useful summer energy saving tips: click here to read the complete list online.  Some of the tips I found most interesting are:

• Cooking with your microwave uses two-thirds less electricity as...

We need a plan for reducing carbon emissions that actually works.

I know it isn’t even summer yet, but December can’t come soon enough as far as I’m concerned. That’s when the next UN Climate Change Conference 2009 will be held in Copenhagen. This will be the first of these conferences since the arrival of President Obama on the scene. I don’t think it is controversial to say that he’s shown a greater willingness than his predecessor to have...