Deschutes uses 116% renewable energy

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  1. cjgiant

    cjgiant Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,560) Jul 13, 2013 District of Columbia
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  2. larryarms847

    larryarms847 Initiate (0) Dec 12, 2010 Illinois

    You can sell it back to the utility.
     
  3. bbtkd

    bbtkd Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,326) Sep 20, 2015 South Dakota
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    In many if not all states, electric utilities are required to accept excess power from consumers and credit them for it. If you put up a windmill, solar panels, generator, or fuel cell then you can have it hooked up so that it provides your power and excess goes back into the grid.
     
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  4. jjboesen

    jjboesen Pooh-Bah (2,054) Feb 1, 2002 Maryland
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    So long as they make great beer, I don't care if they burn Styrofoam and puppy blood.
     
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  5. qchic

    qchic Maven (1,303) Jul 6, 2004 Maryland

    I shall raise a Fresh Squeezed IPA to them!

    Pretty much every brewery I've visited has invested in being green--another reason I enthusiastically support craft beer.
     
  6. larryarms847

    larryarms847 Initiate (0) Dec 12, 2010 Illinois

    Yep, that's how it is in Illinois, I didn't want to generalize because I'm not sure of Oregon's laws.
     
  7. Phil-Fresh

    Phil-Fresh Initiate (0) Feb 19, 2015 California

    Would just like to add - while what you say is correct, "adding green to a grid means less non-green energy" - that conclusion is dependent on the time of day. More often, renewable power (sun and wind) does not displace non-green power, it displaces other renewable power that happens to be producing during that period (i.e. think really sunny or windy periods). ...Now if you could cost-effectively store it that would be another thing. Yes, totally aware of his Musk's fancy batteries, but they are not close to being affordable - just like Teslas (so far anyway).
     
  8. Phil-Fresh

    Phil-Fresh Initiate (0) Feb 19, 2015 California

    You are definitely right my man, Deschutes is totally using other energy at times! The sun is not always shining and it is not always windy. Batteries in theory work, but are not at all cost-effective yet. Even fuel cells like a Bloom Box would not be able to cover all power needs (that not sure the chemistry of some of these fuel cell devices is truly green)
     
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