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Alternative Energy for the Home |
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Written by Deb St. George, Publisher, Agritrax.com
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Saturday, 04 August 2007 |
The trend toward homes that are powered by alternative energy sources,
ranging from wind turbines and solar collection cells to hydrogen fuel cells and
biomass gases, is one that needs to continue into the 21st century and beyond.
We have great need of becoming more energy independent, and not having to rely
on the supplying of fossil fuels from unstable nations who are often hostile to
us and our interests. But even beyond this factor, we as individuals need to get
“off the grid” and also stop having to be so reliant on government-lobbying
giant oil corporations who, while they are not really involved in any covert
conspiracy, nevertheless have a stranglehold on people when it comes to heating
their homes (and if not through oil, then heat usually supplied by grid-driven
electricity, another stranglehold).
As Remi Wilkinson, Senior Analyst with Carbon Free, puts it, inevitably, the
growth of distributed generation will lead to the restructuring of the retail
electricity market and the generation, transmission and distribution
infrastructure.
The power providers may have to diversify their business to make
up for revenues lost through household energy microgeneration. She is referring
to the conclusions by a group of UK analysts, herself included among them, who
call themselves Carbon Free. Carbon Free has been studying the ever-growing
trend toward alternative energy-using homes in England and the West. This trend
is being driven by ever-more government recommendation and sometimes backing of
alternative energy research and development, the rising cost of oil and other
fossil fuels, concern about environmental degradation, and desires to be energy
independent. Carbon Free concludes that, assuming traditional energy prices
remain at their current level or rise, microgeneration (meeting all of one's
home's energy needs by installing alternative energy technology such as solar
panels or wind turbines) will become to home energy supply what the Internet
became to home communications and data gathering, and eventually this will have
deep effects on the businesses of the existing energy supply companies.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 05 August 2007 )
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