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What if electricity was causing mountains to be destroyed? If flipping that switch equated to air pollution and more children growing up with respiratory illnesses? What if lighting your home meant increased pollution of all we see, smell and taste?

These “what ifs” are the reality of today.

Become emPOWERed with the knowledge of the impact your contribution can make. Brilliant Green Energy will help you be a part of stopping the negative effects on our environment, and also permanently reverse them.

Solar Demystified

There’s a lot of talk when it comes to renewable energy and solar power.

Here are a few accurate facts.

Fact 1:

Renewable energy is the most viable solution to our energy concerns.
There are a number of inexhaustible sources of clean energy, including hydro, solar, wind and hydrogen. The volume of energy technically available from renewable sources is more than five times current global consumption.

(Source: United Nations’ 2001 World Energy Assessment Report)

Fact 2:

Solar power is the most abundant renewable energy.
Solar energy accounts for more than 62 percent of potential renewable energy. Theoretical energy potential from renewable energy sources is more than 10,000 times our current worldwide usage.

Fact 3:

Technology is evolving.
An extraordinarily simple and exciting observation in ordinary ‘battery and a beaker of water’ electrolysis published by MIT in 2008 has started a global race of engineers to create a cheap and incredibly powerful ‘hydrogen storage and converter’ device, making solar energy constant. Pause for a second and imagine what that statement means.

Fact 4:

Less than two-tenths of 1 percent of the sun’s total potential energy could power all of Planet Earth’s needs.

Fact 5:

We’re in the right place at the right time.
The United States has some of the best locations on Earth for harvesting solar. In Arizona, one square meter of solar photovoltaic panels can generate between 5,000 to 8,000 watt hours of electricity per day.
Prediction: Arizona, which has only 2% of the U.S. solar usage, will overtake California - that represents 62% of the current market - within 5 years and will become “the Persian Gulf of solar” (Janet Napolitano, as the Secretary for Homeland Security and former Governor of Arizona).

Today, 27 U.S. states have adopted Renewable Energy Standards and Tariff (REST), also known as Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) that mandate the development of a larger percentage of renewable energy as a share of each state’s total electricity generating capacity.

Fact 6:

Tomorrow is too late.
The U.S. electric grid recently received a “D” rating by the American Society of Civil Engineers because of its lack of efficiency, reliability and capacity. The generation of electricity in large scale plants in remote rural areas requires the transmission of the high voltage power over long distances, wasting billions of kilowatt hours of electricity each year.
Compounding the problem, the existing U.S. electric generating plants don’t produce enough power for today’s use, let alone the Department of Energy’s projected need for 4,705 billion kilowatt hours over the current demand by the year 2030. This will require the installation of 236 gigawatts of new generating capacity. In English, that’s roughly 25 percent more.

Solar is perfect for ‘peak shaving’ the national grid as it is produced during high demand, and renewable energy is the solution for traditional power companies facing the following:

The supplies and abilities to deliver inexpensive fossil fuels are declining. Washington departments (the Pentagon, Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency, Transportation, Commerce and the Federal Reserve Bank) all recognize that the U.S. can no longer afford to import vast quantities of oil and natural gas.
Issues raised by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including rising cost of code compliance, lengthy and expensive planning and permitting for new power plants, litigation from the American Lung Association, The Cancer Society and other well-funded lobby groups, and the imminent implementation of carbon emission taxes.
Nuclear, though traditionally considered clean, has been restricted because of ever-present security and environmental issues. The planning and permitting is very long as, instinctively, no one wants it near them. There is also the unsolved and growing problem of what to do with the spent nuclear fuel rods.