Renewable Energy from MG&E

MG&E has a program that allows you to buy all of your electricity from renewable sources for a few cents extra per kWh.

This five-minute video profiles another family that subscribes to Madison Gas & Electric renewable power and runs two businesses out of the home. I like the fact that they mention other energy saving decisions such as owning only one car. These people remind me of my family, except they don't have an infant and their house is fixed up nicer.

I hope eventually MG&E can transition everyone over to renewable energy. The difficulty will be maintaining non-renewable production capacity for when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. As a result, the cost of having over the half the population subscribed to RE might be more than a few cents a kWh. Maybe the coming decades will see new technologies to store energy from renewable sources and thereby obviate the need for non-renewable electricity sources altogether.