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In a new video produced by Brainvise for the Vote Solar Initiative, renewable energy policies that let you spin your electric meter backwards are explained in a simple, engaging manner through sharp animation.
Commonly known as the policy that enables a customer’s electric meter spin backwards, net metering is the billing arrangement by which customers realize savings from their clean energy systems. 1 kWh generated by the customer has the exact sam
When going green, consider these actions which can help ease tensions within the food/water/energy nexus.
Taking the Red Tape Out of Green Power: How to Overcome Permitting Obstacles to Small-Scale Distributed Renewable Energy
Net metering is a simple billing arrangement for customer-sited DG. Without exception, significant deployment of clean, customer-sited DG occurs only in states with modern interconnection and net metering policies.
Americans are increasingly aware of the importance of renewable resources in reducing the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. The greatest barriers to the expanded use of renewables stem not from technic
A frack job used 4.5 million gallons, of which a amount approximately 10 to 40 percent flows back to the surface as toxic water.
26 percent of energy used in homes is for lighting and other appliances
About 40 calories of fossil fuel energy go into every calorie of feed lot beef in the US. One more reason to go Meatless Monday!
Organic farms use as much as one-third less fossil fuels than their conventional counterparts, and can sequester carbon!
Of all sources of energy consumed in the United States, oil provides the largest share at 36 percent.
The majority of oil the US oil imports are from Canada (24%), Mexico (9%), Saudi Arabia (12%), Nigeria (11%) and Venezuela (10%).
It takes 520 million MWh of electricity per year to move, treat and heat water in the U.S. this is 13% of the total U.S. electrical consumption.
Creating a gallon of ethanol consumes about 100 gallons of freshwater. In some regions, ethanol production can take three or more times that amount.
20 percent of energy used in homes is for water heating
Between 1950 and 2003, the fossil fuel industry raked in 75 percent of federal government energy development incentives.
41% of energy used in the home is for space heating, which is the #1 energy user in our homes.
The meat industry generates nearly one-fifth of the man-made greenhouse gas emissions. One more reason to go Meatless Monday!
The US consumes 800 million gallons of oil each day.
The United States led the world with $48.1 billion in clean energy investments in 2011.
The US imports about half of oil consumed.
