Sustainable Energy
Sustainable electrical energy technology revolves around several main factors including renewable electricity generation, reduced consumption, and reduced peak demand on the electrical grid. By combining these critical aspects of sustainable energy, everyone gets to save money and help the environment at the same time.
Renewable electricity generation has been increasing in popularity in recent years with the addition of large numbers of wind farms and solar arrays, as well as an increase in the variety and scale of other alternative generation technologies such as tidal, geothermal, and biomass.
Consumption of electricity has been made easier with the advent of high-efficiency appliances and low-power devices that provide similar or better performance while using much less power. Among the most popular are the latest economical home computers and affordable television sets that are becoming less expensive every year. By switching to these and other similarly efficient devices, the average household can realize significant savings on their monthly power bills while experiencing little change in their lifestyles.
Reducing peak demand on the grid is another method of keeping costs lower and allowing renewable and sustainable energy-producing installations to supply a higher percentage of the power being used. Peak demand times occur during the day when industrial users and offices are drawing the most power, and in the early evenings when families are cooking or doing laundry and using larger amounts of power. Power companies base their use of inefficient generation methods on these peak times.