Buy Green Energy

In most states you can buy clean power through one or more of the following programs.

Buy green energy.

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. Voluntary market defines green power as electricity produced from solar wind geothermal biogas eligible biomass and low impact small hydroelectric sources. Green power is a subset of renewable energy and represents those renewable energy resources and technologies that provide the highest environmental benefit. 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.

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. Other programs have fixed monthly fees round up customer bills charge for units of renewable capacity or offer renewable energy systems for lease. 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. How to buy recs.