Did you know? You can get a wind energy system which used to cost $10,000 for less than $700* - with our latest promotion, completely installed and ready to generate clean power for your home or business. The energy production is about $600 per year of cost savings on your electric bill. These small systems are about the size of a garage door, can be mounted on your roof, garage, shed or on a tower in your yard, and you can install more than one. They can be installed in any neighborhood and they are bird and bat safe as we care about nature, reducing pollution and not harming any animals so we put a safety screen around our wind turbines for that reason. More Info >
Why Go Green?
There has never been a more appropriate time to Go Green. Its value is recognized more so than ever before. There are a number of important reasons to Go Green. The most significant being that preserving the world’s natural resources is the responsibility of every individual both at work and at home.
What is Sustainability?
The Brundtland Commission defines sustainability as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainability incorporates societal, environmental and economic impacts into all decision making.
Why Should You Care?
The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind. - Gaylord Nelson
As we as a society, become more conscientious of the need to care about this planet, we also look towards new alternative energy sources. We have been consuming much fossil fuel that is not good for the environment; therefore, the need for new sources of energy is of extreme urgency and importance.
We have depleted fossil fuels and in the future, there will be scarcity, and we have been damaging the planet in search for more sources of fossil fuels. As scarcity of fossil fuels becomes a reality, the already high prices will continue to soar. Most people cannot afford the already high prices, imagine what would happen if the prices soared more. It is important to prevent this, and we learn to manufacture our own energy from sustainable sources.
Fossil fuels have been causing a negative effect in our planet, and we are starting to see a change in climate, something that we had heard a long time ago, but did not believe possible. Now, it is becoming more real, as we cannot deny any more the climatic changes that are occurring all over the planet. In the mean time, the ozone layer continues to thin out. Some efforts are being made in some manufacturing processes, but this is not enough. The main issue continues to be the need to harness new sources of energy, before it is too late.
If we continue to harm the planet, we will be directly hurting our future ability to harness renewable energy - solar power, wind power, hydropower, and biofuels. We will run out of choices if we don't make the decision now to reduce our dependence on crude oil and start using the thecnlogies that Sloster Wind Power has to offer to harness renewable energy.
The early we start the better for our generation and future generations. The Time for you to make a difference is NOW!
“Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.” – Carl Sagan
Colorado Sustainability
Currently, Colorado is bearing a large portion of the burden of providing fossil fuel resources such as coal and natural gas to the rest of the country. The majority of Colorado's power comes from burning coal. But, by switching to clean energy, homeowners and businesses can cut the use of fossil fuels and make a difference.
Colorado has increased its renewable energy standard to require large utilities to obtain 30% of their power from renewable sources by 2020. Governor Bill Ritter signed the legislation on March 22, 2010 noting that the new standard makes it the "best in the Rocky Mountain West" and one of the highest in the nation.
In 2004, the state became the first in the United States to have a voter-approved renewable energy standard, when a referendum was approved calling for 10% renewable power by 2015. In 2007, state legislation increased the requirement to 20% renewable energy by 2020, a target that the new legislation increased by another 50%.
As with the previous law, the new law credits electricity produced from solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy, biomass power (including power generated from non-toxic plants, animal wastes, and methane from landfills and wastewater treatment facilities), small hydropower, "recycled" electricity from waste heat, and fuel cells powered with hydrogen derived from eligible renewable energy resources.
The new law requires utilities to supply at least 12% of their retail electric sales from such sources from 2011 to 2014, 20% from 2015 to 2019, and 30% for 2020 and thereafter. Those requirements apply to all providers of retail electric service in the state, with the exception of municipal utilities serving 40,000 customers or fewer. In-state power facilities receive extra credit towards the requirements.
The new law also sets specific requirements for distributed generation from eligible renewable energy resources. The law divides this into "retail distributed generation," which includes customer-located facilities connected to the customer's side of the meter, and sized to not exceed the customer's load by more than 20%, and "wholesale distributed generation," which includes systems of 30 megawatts of capacity or less that don't qualify as retail distributed generation.
The law requires investor-owned utilities to draw on distributed generation for at least 1% of their retail electric sales in 2011 and 2012, ratcheting up to 3% by 2020. At least half of the requirement must be met with retail distributed generation. According to the governor, that requirement will lead to at least 100,000 additional solar rooftops over the next decade.
"We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to."
- Terri Swearingen
Safe, Strong and Secure: Reducing America's Oil Dependence
America's dependence on oil is a threat to our national security and our economy. Growing demand and shrinking domestic production means America is importing more and more oil each year - much of it from the world's most unfriendly or unstable regions. We spend more than $200,000 per minute -- $13 million per hour -- on foreign oil, and more than $25 billion a year on Persian Gulf imports alone.
We can and must reclaim our freedom and secure a cleaner, safer energy future by investing in American jobs and taking the lead on efficient technology, green energy, more transportation choices, and other commonsense policies.
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. - Kurt Vonnegut