AllGreen Renewables is launching this blog and our new website so we can share our views on renewable energy and how it’s going to help us: 1) cut our costs of power and heat; 2) reduce our greenhouse gas emissions; 3) minimize our reliance on foreign oil; and 4) promote development of green jobs in our local communities. We want you to be well informed about renewable solutions so that you can look at ways to use it in your home, business, school or organization.
We’re all reading more and more about renewable energy – biomass, solar, wind, geothermal. There’s so much information it’s tough to sort through it all. Most people just want to know what makes sense for them, how to adopt it – and why they should even want to. That’s where the AllGreen team can help. We have deep roots in renewable energy, both in the U.S. and Europe.
The European connection is important because they have a 10-15 year lead on us in adoption of renewable power and heat, and we can learn from them. Europeans are ahead because their fuel costs have always been 2-3 times higher than the U.S. and their governments created incentive plans to encourage use of renewable energy in homes and businesses. As a result, use of low cost renewable energy has become a “no brainer” for most Europeans, and that’s why, for instance, 2006 sales of biomass heating systems in Europe were seven times those in North America (see illustration below).
But the same forces that drove adoption of renewables in Europe are growing here. Our fuel prices are thankfully down from 2008 highs, but they will rise again as the economy recovers. And our federal and state governments are now offering incentives to adopt renewables.
We can learn from Europe’s experience and take advantage of the many fine products developed there.
Through this blog we will comment on progress being made to advance renewable energy here, how government incentives are helping, and how things are going in Europe. Mike Fuller who heads AllGreen corporate and government affairs will join me as a regular contributor to this blog. He will talk about activity in the public sector including adoption by schools and municipalities and availability of incentive programs. Bill Maloney, AllGreen’s man in Europe (Ireland to be exact), will also contribute regularly and he’ll help us understand what’s going on with renewable energy in Europe.
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