It's Electric News!

During the construction of the building, Franki Aitken (our CFO) has had to make a million decisions. Just the other day, there was a long meeting about hand soap (more on that later).

Last week, Franki selected the company that will sell us the electric power for the building. Like all such decisions, the environmental impact and the economic impact had to be worked out. Working with Renewable Energy Choice, a Colorado based company, Franki was able to purchase a very attractive contract for our electricity.

The exciting thing is that 100% of the electricity our building uses will come from wind generated power at a very reasonable price (roughly $.00378 per kw/h).

A lot of people don't understand how this works, so let me give it my best layman's explanation. Obviously, you can't buy a specific electron and know how it was generated. So the best way I've found to think of the power grid is as a stream. Up stream, somebody pours a gallon of water into the stream and sells to somebody downstream the right to take a gallon out. Obviously, the water gets all mixed up with other water in the stream, but the stream is kept whole.

That's pretty much how the electric grid works. People generate power lots of different ways and put it onto the electric grid for people to pull down. We're paying Renewable Energy Choice to put power that was generated by windmills onto the grid so we can use it to power our building.

So when you visit our building, remember that none of the electricity is adding pollutants to the atmosphere and it was a really good buy to boot!