Finally Moved To Green Power Thanks To Bullfrog Power

Today we received an email informing us that we are now running on Bullfrog green electricity. In case you haven't heard of Bullfrog Power you should go check out their website here.

A quick explanation about how this works. Basically, it's quite expensive to transition to green / renewable power. Investment in PV panels would require a large up-front cost, a solar hot-water system would be somewhat less, and a wind power setup would likely cost the most (I'm just guessing). So, for the 99% of us that do not have the capital to fund such a venture there is an alternative.

Bullfrog invests heavily in green electricity generation: wind and low-impact hydro. In their own words:

"Bullfrog's green electricity comes exclusively from wind and low-impact hydro facilities that meet or exceed Environment Canada's EcoLogoM standard for renewable electricity."

How it works is Bullfrog monitors your electricity consumption and injects the amount of electricity you use back into your local electrical power grid. In my case this would be Bullfrog injecting power in the Nova Scotia power grid.

After reading that you might counter, "If that's the case than aren't you still in essence working off of Nova Scotia's dirty coal electricity?" The answer is, most likely, however, because Bullfrog injects green electricity back into my local grid my local power producer's production goes down. They don't have to burn as much coal because they're receiving energy from another source. Now, a single household may not make a significant impact on their local producers production... but a hundred homes? A thousand? It's easy to see how this could really make an impact.

Billing works nearly the same as before. We'll still be receiving our regular power bill from our regular energy producer and on top of that we'll be receiving a bill from Bullfrog Power. However, the additional cost is very minimal. Our bi-monthly power bills are in the range of $80 (somewhere in the range of 500-600 kWh). In our area Bullfrog Power charges 2 cents per kWh. A simple calculation reveals that we'll be receiving a bill from Bullfrog for 10-12 dollars, a small pittance for moving to renewable power.

For more information check out http://www.bullfrogpower.com or Google for renewable energy alternatives in your locale.


Update 1: Thanks to Bullfrog Power for the clarification. Currently they do not invest directly in Nova Scotia so all power injected into the NS grid is sourced from wind and low-impact hydro facilities in New Brunswick and PEI. Thanks for the comment and keep up the great work!