A few years ago the city of Houston did something unusual for a city of its size, they deregulated the electric company. Now there are dozens of power companies you can shop to buy electricity. The city even set up an awesome website www.powertochoose.org where you can easily compare companies. We change providers about every 8 months. About a year ago we started to see companies offer 80-100% green power, but it was at a premium price. To my surprise this time several of the smaller companies are offering 100% green wind power for the same price as the tradition coal power. We new it would be coming, I just didn't think it would be this fast. West Texas houses the largest wind farm in the world (what else do you do with miles of barren plains?) For once I am proud to say I live in Houston. So as of this week the Renshaw house will be a little greener.
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very awesome. i can attest to the west-texas-barren thing as i have spent time in san angelo. *hello...hello...hello....hello.....* (that's the echo of nothingness if you can't tell) i recently went there to visit a close friend, and i drove through a huge wind farm. it was really quite awesome, and it was difficult not to gawk. the turbines were so futuristic, and stoic, like something you'd expect on the moon.
by chance do you have green mountain energy? that's who my sister works for in dallas. :)
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