Green Energy for the Home

The trend toward homes that are powered by green energy sources, ranging from wind turbines and solar collection cells to hydrogen fuel cells and biomass gases, is one that needs to continue into the 21st century and beyond. We have great need of becoming more energy independent, and not having to rely on the supplying of fossil fuels from unstable nations who are often hostile to us and our interests.

But even beyond this factor, we as individuals need to get “off the grid” and also stop having to be so reliant on government-lobbying giant oil corporations who, while they are not really involved in any covert conspiracy, nevertheless have a stranglehold on people when it comes to heating their homes (and if not through oil, then heat usually supplied by grid-driven electricity, another stranglehold). The growth of distributed carbon free generation will lead to the restructuring of the retail electricity market and the generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure.

The power providers may have to diversify their business to make up for revenues lost through household energy micro generation. I referred to the conclusions by a group of UK analysts, which included among them, who call themselves Carbon Free. Carbon Free has been studying the ever-growing trend toward green energy-using homes in England and the West. This trend is being driven by ever-more government recommendation and sometimes backing of green energy research and development, the rising cost of oil and other fossil fuels, concern about environmental degradation, and desires to be energy independent.