Should You Choose a Clean Energy Provider?

Why Switch to a Clean Energy Provider?

Paying the electric company and using up fossil fuels every month has just become habit for many of us. Switching to a clean energy provider can help you feel better about the impact you are making on the environment, and save you some money too. Here are a few more things to consider before you make the switch to clean energy.

Support Public Health

It’s not news at this point that using fossil fuels in our cars, to heat or cool our home, or for gardening and lawncare has a very negative impact on the air quality that we all breathe daily. The impacts of coal mines and natural gas plants has been linked to breathing problems, neurological damage, heart attacks, and cancer. By choosing a clean energy provider, you have the power to reduce premature mortality, lost workdays, and also reduce the overall healthcare cost for Americans.

Reduce Your Emissions

At the very moment you read this, humans are overloading the atmosphere with emissions that contribute to climate change. These pollutants trap heat and continuously increase the planet’s temperature which has serious negative impacts on our environment and our health. Making the switch to a clean energy provider is a step in the right direction to help reduce those emissions and support the increase in supply of renewable energy.

There’s an Endless Supply

Green energy sources include wind, sun, plant residues, geothermal heat, and fast moving water. They are plentiful, constantly being replenished, and most importantly, they have the potential to give us all the electricity we will ever need, and more. Studies show that renewables have the potential to supply billions of kilowatt-hours of electricity annually—or approximately 118 times the amount of electricity the United States currently consumes.

Improve Environmental Quality

If we all just made a few small changes, it would make a huge difference in the quality of the air we breathe and water we drink. Utilizing wind, solar, or hydroelectric power sources can make a substantial reduction in the emissions that you contribute to the environment. Along with reducing emissions, switching to a clean energy provider will help reduce water pollution. Wind and solar power require virtually no water to operate, unlike fossil fuels which can pollute sources of drinking water.

Renewables Create Jobs

Did you know that the renewable energy industry is actually more labor intensive than fossil fuel technologies? More labor means more opportunity to create jobs. The wind energy industry already provides thousands of jobs in the United States and there are more than 500 domestic factories that manufacture equipment used in wind turbines. The solar industry, hydroelectric power industry, and geothermal industry are also responsible for employing hundreds of thousands of people.

It’s More Reliable

When you choose a clean energy provider, you are choosing a much more reliable source of energy. Wind and solar are distributed and modular, so they are less likely to be disrupted by severe weather. If there is a large storm like a hurricane, for example, one or two sources of power being cut off won’t cut off power to the entire region.