Sangre De Cristo leads the way in implementing renewable energy use

The subject of renewable energy has recently created a lot of buzz. Media and politics, cities and rural areas, world leaders and small business owners have all realized that renewable energy constitutes one of the most important ideas shaping our world today. But what is being done to change the future of our energy use?

La Plata makes it easy for their customers to benefit from solar power

While the best-known form of solar power is the electricity collected by solar farms, or large-scale panel installations, homeowners can benefit from solar power with a simple installation of just a few panels on their roofs to power a solar hot water system.

Southeast Colorado Power encourages customers to utilize wind power

Wind power provides some of the most exciting opportunities for developments in renewable energy in the realm of energy sources to date. In wind power systems, turbines capture the energy of the wind by converting the energy of the spinning props into electricity through generators attached to the turbines.

United Power offers a new way for customers to go solar

Along with wind power, solar energy serves as one of the most-recognized forms of alternative energy in our world today. Clean and relatively efficient, solar energy can be captured in either active or passive ways, active being the conversion of solar energy into electricity through technology such as solar panels and passive being the use of sunlight for direct heating and lighting, such as through windows.