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Alternative Energy for the Home
The trend toward homes that are powered by alternative 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).
As Remi Wilkinson, Senior Analyst with Carbon Free, puts it, inevitably,
the growth of distributed 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
microgeneration. She is referring to the conclusions by a group of UK
analysts, herself included among them, who call themselves Carbon Free.
Carbon Free has been studying the ever-growing trend toward alternative
energy-using homes in England and the West. This trend is being driven
by ever-more government recommendation and sometimes backing of
alternative energy research and development, the rising cost of oil and
other fossil fuels, concern about environmental degradation, and
desires to be energy independent. Carbon Free concludes that, assuming
traditional energy prices remain at their current level or rise,
microgeneration (meeting all of one's home's energy needs by installing
alternative energy technology such as solar panels or wind turbines)
will become to home energy supply what the Internet became to home
communications and data gathering, and eventually this will have deep
effects on the businesses of the existing energy supply companies.
Carbon Free's analyses also show that energy companies themselves have
jumped in on the game and seek to leverage microgeneration to their own
advantage for opening up new markets for themselves. Carbon Free cites
the example of electricity companies (in the UK) reporting that they
are seriously researching and developing ideas for new geothermal
energy facilities, as these companies see geothermal energy production
as a highly profitable wave of the future. Another conclusion of Carbon
Free is that solar energy hot water heating technology is an efficient
technology for reducing home water heating costs in the long run,
although it is initially quite expensive to install. However, solar
power is not yet cost-effective for corporations, as they require too
much in the way of specialized plumbing to implement solar energy hot
water heating.
Lastly, Carbon Free tells us that installing wind turbines is
an efficient way of reducing home electricity costs, while also being
more independent. However, again this is initially a very expensive
thing to have installed, and companies would do well to begin slashing
their prices on these devices or they could find themselves losing
market share.
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