WASHINGTON DC: Clean Energy (via 100% Wind) Now Available to the Mid-Atlantic from Groundswell

Here is some exciting local news from Groundswell, a DC-based nonprofit that makes clean energy programs accessible to communities.
 
Clean energy—powered by wind versus fossil fuels—is now available to everyday electricity bill-paying customers throughout the mid-Atlantic, announced Groundswell , a nonprofit that makes clean energy programs accessible to communities. Groundswell mobilizes growing participation in the clean economy by empowering consumers with the chance to make a choice about where their power comes from.

“Many consumers don’t know that if you pay an electricity bill every month, you can choose to support wind power ,” said Michelle Moore, CEO of Groundswell. “That’s where Groundswell comes in. Through the power of buying in bulk, we make prices for renewable energy more affordable, so that everyone can make the switch.”

Right now, over 90% of the electricity that powers homes in the mid-Atlantic comes from nonrenewable power sources, such as from coal power plants. By switching to wind, a consumer can offset about 15,000 lbs of greenhouse gases—that’s equivalent to taking 2 cars off the road. As opposed to coal, which produces 85% of the asthma causing fine particulate air pollutants in the U.S., wind produces no pollutants, meaning cleaner air for communities

Groundswell has negotiated on behalf of communities across the mid-Atlantic (Virginia, D.C., Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware) to offer some of the most competitive rates in the region for 100% wind power. Homeowners and renters can visit groundswell.org/wind to learn more and to see pricing for
100% wind. These prices are available from now until December 5, 2015.

In the past six years, Groundswell has switched nearly 4,000 families and small businesses to clean power. In the process, they directly engaged over 10,000 people and organizations about how they can use their shared power to participate in the clean economy, including switching to wind or solar power and accessing energy efficiency options. They have mobilized communities to complete over $15 million in people-powered clean energy projects, and saved participants over $2 million on clean electricity.

There successes demonstrate that community power works: with these projects, they’ve reduced greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to taking 27,500 cars off the road.