Alternative/Renewable Energy

My company has just recently started a wind study program for our building, we have not received all the data yet but we understand the benefits both financial and environmental so we are pursuing alternative energy ideas. For our area and many areas across the U.S. there is not one answer in terms of Solar or Wind. In Winter months wind is usually best and in Summer solar is, as the angle of the sun is important in how much solar energy you can harvest. Our main building is 110k sq ft and we have hundreds of manufacturing and packaging machines so we will need to take advantage of both alternative energy resources. I doubt we will be able to create enough energy to sell back to the local grid but that will not derail us from continuing with this project. Unfortunately I have recently heard the local power company is running out of money in their incentive programs and am hoping this will be resolved. It's good that both the state and federal incentive programs are continuing and possibly growing over the next couple years. These programs will help get the Alternative energy projects at commercial buildings going, creating many jobs in the process, all while helping the environment. It's a win win situation.

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