Water, Water, Everywhere
Advantages of Hydroelectric Energy In earlier posts, we’ve discussed how sunlight and wind can be harnessed to produce electricity – without contributing to climate change – so it seems natural (pun intended) to wrap up our series on renewable energy resources with a talk about the advantages of hydroelectric energy: power generated by water. In […]
Read MoreDeregulation: It’s Why We’re Here
If you’re a Clearview Energy customer, you can thank deregulation. But if you want to thank deregulation, you should travel back in time to the early 1990s and something calledEPACT92. Many years ago, states were divided into regions by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). A single utility company was given exclusive rights over the […]
Read MoreWind: It’s Everywhere
One of the most powerful renewable resources we have is wind. The best thing about it is that it's unlimited and free. But how does the wind become a factor in renewable energy? People have been using wind power for years, though in far simpler ways than today’s electricity generation. Wind powers sails on ships […]
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