GRE offers free wind energy upgrade for electric vehicles. (program is named "Revolt")

Great River Energy ^ | 6-4-15 | Great River Energy

[dynoman]

"Great River Energy and its participating member cooperatives today launched Revolt, a first-of-its kind program that allows cooperative members to upgrade the electricity used to fuel their vehicles to wind energy at no additional cost.

Renewable sources are already part of Great River Energy’s power mix, but the Revolt program provides a more direct connection between wind energy and the electric vehicle driver."

[RayChuang88]

Not going to work in sunny California, where solar power is a way more viable option if you’re talking about charging an electric car or a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV).

[TangoLimaSierra]

What does Revolt mean right now? It means powering your electric vehicle with 100% wind energy at no extra cost.

In other words, "no change", just feel good crap.

[az_gila]

How do they route the electrons generated from wind energy differently than from other sources. They all flow down the same wires, don’t they?

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Easy, they just look for the green ones and send them your way... /S

[citizen]

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Everyone reading this thread should give back.

You left out the O in Gore, right? lol

[dynoman]

“What does Revolt mean right now? It means powering your electric vehicle with 100% wind energy at no extra cost.”

That’s actually false advertising. Unless wind is 100% of the fuel mix it will never be possible.

GRE is in the MISO footprint. As I write this post wind is 4.2% of the MISO fuel mix. You NEVER see wind over 20%.

https://www.misoenergy.org/MarketsOperations/RealTimeMarketData/Pages/FuelMix.aspx