Green Energy for Your Home and Business
Allied Power Services has some great green energy options through WGES' CleanSteps WindPower to improve regional air quality and reduce your carbon footprint.
These options are available for current residential and commercial customers of PEPCO, Delmarva, Allegheny Power, BG&E and PPL in Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, Delaware and Pennsylvania.
When you switch with Allied Power Services to Washington Gas Energy Services, the standard electricity offers include 5% of wind power for residential and 3.5% for small business that is generated from local wind farms.
Click on the button below to review pricing and start contributing towards clean energy.
Did you know?
12,000 Residential Customers Have Enrolled in Clean Steps Wind Power Program. They're helping to reduce CO2 emissions by purchasing 50% or 100% wind power from local wind farms to meet their electricity needs.
How It Works
When you decide to switch electricity suppliers you can also decide if you want to go green.
Your local provider (Pepco, BG&E etc.) either generates or purchases coal or oil products to produce 100% of the electricity that is delivered to your home or business.
When you agree to use WGES as your supplier, WGES purchases 95% of the energy you need from coal or oil generated electricity and the other 5% of the energy from local wind farms. In both cases, the electricity you pay for is delivered to the grid and your local provider delivers it to your house.
50% or 100% Green Power
An increasing number of customers are looking for additional ways to go green. For them we have some other options. When you review the pricing you will notice that we also offer a 50% and 100% wind product.
What this means is WGES will purchase 50% or 100% of the energy you use from wind sources and will deliver that energy into the grid.
You don’t actually get the kilowatt of wind power you bought, but the amount of kilowatt’s you use are put in the grid and it therefore reduces the amount of coal or oil kilowatt’s needed to supply everyone on the same grid as you.
Below is an example of how energy works:
Four different sample sources of energy are fed to the power grid: coal, oil, wind and nuclear. All the energy is merged together in the power grid.
As a home owner or business you decide what percentage and what type of energy you want sent to your home or business.
Percentages of energy are for example and do not reflect actual percentages.
The result is less coal and oil is used if more locations choose a green product. This reduces the "Carbon Footprint" on the environment.
So if you decide to go with the standard offer you will be 5% green and if you want to pay a little more you can be 50% or 100% green for your electricity generation.
Frequently Asked Questions
This does not make sense to me. Can you explain more?
You can call us at (877) 597-1578, and talk to one of our energy specialists for further explanations.
Where does the wind power come from?
Local wind farms in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Because WGES chooses local, the benefits from WGES Clean Steps Wind Power – such as environmental health and green jobs – remain in your community.
Wondering why WGES purchases no wind power in D.C., Maryland, or Delaware? That’s because the region has no operating large-scale wind farms.
What does renewable energy means?
Energy that is created that doesn’t deplete the environment when the energy is harnessed.
For more information on renewable energy, please visit: http://www.eere.energy.gov/.
Have more questions?
You can visit our FAQ section of our site, or Call us at: (877) 597-1578.
Did You Know?
If your home uses 11,000 Kwh and you use a 100% wind power, it comparable to removing 1.5 cars from the road every year eliminating nearly 8 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air.
