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Renewable Energy is energy created from resources that are regenerative - or renewable - meaning they cannot be depleted. Examples of renewable energy include wind, solar and water power. These resources are safe for our environment and produce energy without the harmful pollutants and emissions associated with fossil-fuels. Community Energy offers a variety of renewable energy products, with a strong focus on solar and wind power, and the development of new wind and solar farm projects across the nation. It costs more for two reasons. First, the environmental and human health costs of conventional power generation (such as acid rain and air pollution) are not fully reflected in electricity's market price. That makes the conventional generation seem cheaper than it really is. And the value of clean energy is therefore not recognized by our pricing system. In the case of wind energy, for example, virtually all of the pollution and waste resulting from fossil and nuclear generation is eliminated. The second reason is that although most renewable resources are free, the technologies used to convert the wind or the sun to electricity, for example, are not. Because renewable energy technologies are younger, and the industries are much smaller than traditional energy industries, they have not had the opportunity to enjoy the economies of scale and prolonged learning curve that benefit today's more established technologies. But times are changing. The cost of wind energy, for example, has dropped 80% since 1980 and the decline continues as the wind energy industry matures. Sourced from AWEA www.awea.org/greenpower/gp_what.html

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