{"id":1891,"date":"2009-03-25T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2025-04-14T07:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:51:24","slug":"bullfrog-power-brings-renewable-energy-to-bc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1891","title":{"rendered":"Bullfrog Power brings renewable energy to BC."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/bullfrogpower.com\" title=\"Bullfrog Power in British Columbia\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 253px; height: 70px;\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/2\/2e\/BULLFROG-logo.PNG\" class=\"imgbord\" alt=\"Bullfrog Power in British Columbia\" \/><\/a>When I lived in LA, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ladwp.com\/\" title=\"What is Green Power? \">utility company there<\/a> had an option where I could pay a slight amount more for my power and as a result all my power would come from renewable sources. I jumped on board. It is important to me that I pay a little more to help fund initiatives providing green power to our grid.<\/p>\n<p>When I moved to BC, I found no such option available to me. I wasn&#8217;t too worried, as so much of the power we generate comes from hydroelectric and is renewable. But we sell a lot of our clean energy at peak hours to the US and buy back their mostly coal fired electricity at night when the cost per kilowatt hour is a lot less.<\/p>\n<p>So recently my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peterterweeme\/\" title=\"Peter ter Weeme\">Peter ter Weeme<\/a> sent me a sign up for Bullfrog Power, an Eastern Canadian renewable energy company that was moving into BC. Basically, you tell them how much you use in residential energy usage, and pay 2 cents per kilowatt hour and they will ensure that that amount of green energy is added to the BC grid, basically offsetting your usage.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more info here on <a href=\"https:\/\/bullfrogpower.com\" title=\"Bullfrog Power in British Columbia\">Bullfrog Power in BC<\/a>. I think this is a very smart initiative, as it gets some competition around cleaner energy solutions in BC, and will speed up BC Hydro&#8217;s good efforts in this space.<\/p>\n<p>One other thing for the bankers in the room. TD Canada Trust, one of Canada&#8217;s biggest banks, ran a campaign saying their Green Machine network, which is what they&#8217;ve always called their ATMs, is now run on Bullfrog green energy, reinforcing their position in the environment, and putting a nice spin on the branding. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.td.com\/ca\/en\/personal-banking\/solutions\/ways-to-bank?tdtab=branch-atm\" title=\"Green Machine\">Read more about TD&#8217;s effort here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I lived in LA, the utility company there had an option where I could pay a slight amount more for my power and as a result all my power would come from renewable sources. I jumped on board. It is important to me that I pay a little more to help fund initiatives providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,5,64,16],"tags":[173,172,212,182],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-td-canada-trust","category-vancouver","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-td-canada-trust","tag-vancouver"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-uv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16596,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/16596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}