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What Is Green Energy?

The U.S. energy market provides a range of services and products with green energy, also called green power, being a small category within these options. For many, this is synonymous with renewable energy, but there is a clear distinction.

What is the Difference Between Renewable and Green Energy?

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), green energy provides the highest environmental benefit and includes power produced by solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, low-impact hydroelectric, and certain eligible biomass sources.

These renewable energy sources enter the power grid and are indistinguishable from conventional energy sources when you flip a light switch or charge your phone. Although renewable energy encompasses the same sources as green energy, this energy more broadly includes technologies and products which can have a considerable impact on both the local and global environment. Essentially, when you buy green power, you’re also supporting various renewable energy projects and the investment in technologies that help them grow.

It’s time to harness the potential of green entrepreneurship

In front of our eyes and in less than a year, we have seen the world being reshaped by the pandemic, with our systems creaking and cracking under its disrupting effects. At the same time, we have seen and continue to witness the resilience and innovations of humans and the human spirit in creating solutions and building back from the disruptions. Now is the time to overhaul and transform our systems. This is certainly not going to be easy and will require a major shift in our production and consumption habits and, more importantly, in our mindsets. But do we have a choice? Current economic models have generated wealth, improved education and health outcomes, and created employment. But this has come at the cost of increasing inequality and environmental degradation, resulting in the climate crisis and the pandemic. Current models of growth and consumption are unsustainable. We need 1.75 planet Earths to provide resources and absorb waste at our current level of consumption, growing to two planets by 2030. While we need to generate wealth and improve incomes to address poverty, we must to do it in a way that optimises our use of resources and regenerates more than we consume, if we are to live comfortably within the planetary boundaries.

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