Electricity is like any other commodities. You buy and sell KWh. So his company has to buy every month or year on average from Windpower source (or produced itself) according to what its customers want to pay for.
If a windturbine produces less then what they have sold to customers they need to install a second one or buy from an other windpower producer. The KWh itself does not has a sticker saying windpower but imagine that their customer aggregated power makes for 50% of the energy the company sell (either produced themself of acquired elsewhere) and they want that 50% to be windpower then the company will have no choice to buy or produce 50% of its power from windpower. Now imagine that the other 50% want nuclear then the company can't buy/produce from coal at all (or from other sources as a matter of fact). You don't need separate power line. It is all a question of from where you buy/produce and the quantity. So yes, the company can guaranty that the power sold to Hoagy is from windpower. Olivier > From: kelly coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org> > Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:42:58 +0000 > To: <sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org> > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] A wind turbine for your home > > > if you are happy with that situation fine but it seems to me all you are doing > is subsidizing there wind turbine program and helping pay for the installation > and maintenance of there turbines i dont see how they can say that the > electricity you are getting is wind powered because once it hits the grid its > electricity whether it be from coal, nuclear, biomass, wind, hydro,, whatever > seems to be tough for them to claim that you are receiving said > electricity,, i think you are just helping them pay for it,,, but i suppose > anything that helps promote alternative energy such as wind power cant be a > bad thingif folks are willing to help subsidize the cost of installations, > on a biodiesel note i read this post regularly but contribute rarely,, i > started producing with much help from mr addisons excellent website,, jfg and > cut my teeth in bio from info harvested there,, i am now producing and > distributing to other local contractors as my self approx 3000 gallons of > b100 per week and am very happy with our switch to biofuel i figure i have > replaced over the last couple of years over 100 thousand gallons of petroleum > diesel with bio derived from wco colleceted in new england and nyc just > wanted to share that with you all cheers kelly > >> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:34:31 -0500 >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org >> Subject: Re: [Biofuel] A wind turbine for your home >> >> Hello folks, >> >> I took an alternative route for consuming wind power electricity >> this month since it was just offered in my community. >> >> My power company, Xcel Energy, added me to there wind resource >> list to become a 100% consumer of wind turbine electricity for >> about $4 dollars U.S. more per month. I live in a apartment now >> so this is wonderful news for me! They said the average home owner >> would pay roughly $10 more per month for 100% wind generated electricity. >> >> -Hoagy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Biofuel mailing list >> Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >> http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel >> >> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >> Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): >> http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don¹t worry about storage limits. > http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_ > Storage_062009 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090625/ed20ab1f/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
