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Rooftop solar costs quite a lot more to field than utility solar. If you can buy from a community solar project, instead, that is likely a better deal.

• bdcravens 4y ago
  Unfortunately I'm in the Houston area, where there isn't much support for renewables or sustainability on a level larger than the individual. The best I was able to do was find a grid provider that claims to be 100% renewable.
  • 93po 4y ago
    My issue with those providers is that buying their services doesn't mean they're expanding their renewable sources to match the people signing up for them. Those sources exist and are being used already, it just gives them a bucket of billing that they can mark up.
    • ZeroGravitas 4y ago
      Specific providers make those guarantees, to go beyond just selling green credits they already have lying around. I think in Texas Bulb should qualify in this case. https://bulb.com/ https://bulb.com/
      • 93po 4y ago
        I'm not really seeing anything on their site that says every new customer's kW-h usage translates directly to new kW-h sources being built. They do say: "For every unit of electricity you use, we put a unit on the grid produced by a renewable source like solar or wind. " But that's only talking about generation from their existing resources - not the building of new resources. In fact they go on to say that they're only purchasing energy from renewable sources to one-to-one match their customers use. Bulb is just a reseller like any other.
        • ZeroGravitas 4y ago
          Looks like Bulb just got bought by Green Mountain Energy anyway: https://www.greenmountainenergy.com/home-energy-solutions/solar-plan https://www.greenmountainenergy.com/home-energy-solutions/so... They also seem to go beyond the bare minimum and have more information. I thought the Bulb site was implying they bought bundled RECS, i.e. they paid local Texas renewable developers for both their energy output and the REC at the same time. Which is better than buying unbundled RECs.