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 RePower Energy joins sustainable energy luminaries in Environmental Hall of Fame
HONDO, Texas – RePower Energy South Texas, a company supplying residential wind and solar electricity generation across the state and into Mexico, has been inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame.
The Chicago-based non-profit recognizes companies, organizations and individuals that are committed to taking a stand for a sustainable planet through clean, secure electricity production.
Past honorees include actors Harrison Ford and Pierce Brosnan; such groups as the American Wind Energy Association; companies including organic food retailer Whole Foods Market; and James Dehlsen, known as the father of American wind energy.
“I’m honored and humbled to be included in such a distinguished group of individuals, companies and organizations who all have a common goal...
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As reported in the Hondo Anvil Herald
Local rancher looks to wind as a way
to live responsibly with the environment
Global warming is a phrase that has been overused so much in our everyday vernacular
that people have become desensitized to its meaning. With China putting a coal burning utility plant online at a rate of nearly one per week, it would be unfathomable
to think that its byproduct
is not harming our environment. Chief Standing Bear (1834?-1908), a Ponca Native American Chief from the American mid-west, is known for saying “[Man’s] lack of respect for growing, living things soon leads to lack of respect for humans, too”.
Hondo resident Kevin Christiansen has taken a stand to what he sees as the right thing to do, living responsibly
with as little pollution
as possible, in order to leave a clean environment for his children and grandchildren.
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As reported in the Uvalde Leader News
New-fangled windmills could yield owners old-fashioned savings
It is 45-feet high and came to Frank Morgan in three
different pieces that were then assembled by
RePower Energy of Hondo. The device is a wind
turbine Morgan purchased through RePower Energy
and which he said should save him $200 a month in
utility costs.
Morgan resides on an up-and-coming hunting ranch
about 10 miles north of Sabinal on Highway 187.
Climbing up a slight hill to get to his house, Texas
Hill Country spread out behind it, visitors encounter
the unassuming 45-foot pole with the propeller-like
contraption at the top.
"The noise, that was one of my concerns," Morgan
said Tuesday afternoon from where he stood at the
base of his wind turbine.
Before Morgan decided to purchase the wind turbine
he talked it over with friends, who warned him that
the noise could be substantial. Morgan said that the
industrial wind turbines located in West Texas and
other areas of the state can be noisier, but his wind
turbine is much smaller.
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As reported in the San Antonio Business Journal - "Going Green"
Entrepreneur forms distributorship to sell wind turbines to rural households
Hondo Realtor Kevin Christiansen wanted to do the right thing by the environment, perhaps lower his home electric bill a bit and avoid what he sees are big utility bill increases down the road – so he bought a 45-foot-tall wind turbine.
Or rather he tried to. The more friends he told about his plans, the more they wanted one as well. So he ended up buying a wind turbine dealership instead.
Now, nine months later, he’s sold 10 turbines designed for private residences, and believes he has found a market niche that is set for the future.
“I’ve watched electricity rates go up and up – they’ve never gone down – and when they started to talk about all of this cap and trade, I started to look for alternative electric sources for my home,” Christiansen says.
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As reported in the Kerrville Daily Times
Harnessing wind power
Kevin Christiansen has three reasons why he got out of the construction and real estate business two years ago and into the green energy business: His three children.
"I wouldn't call myself an environmentalist, but I am concerned about what we're doing to the environment and what kind of environment will be left for our kids," Christiansen said.
That's Christiansen started RePower Energy, a firm to outfit buildings with solar and wind energy turbines. Based in Hondo, his firm already has installed 59 private wind turbines throughout the state, including several in the Hill Country.
Texas leads the nation in wind energy, with a production capacity of 9,410 mega-watts from the state's 40, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
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As shown on You Tube by the Kerrville Daily Times
Going Green with Wind Energy
While raising a private wind turbine on a ranch in Kerr County, RePower Energy president Kevin Christiansen discusses the importance of renewable, clean energy.
Click on the link to the left or below to find out what Kevin has to say!
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As reported in the Texas Wildlife Magazine
Individual Wind Turbines Powering Rural Texas Homes
A wooden windmill slowly creaking in the wind as it fills a water trough is one of those timeless images that once was commonplace at homesteads, farms and ranches throughout Texas.
In the old days, the people who relied on wind power to handle some of their daily tasks did not consider themselves “green” or environmentalists trying to save the planet. They were just independent-minded landowners looking for some help from Mother Nature as they tried to scratch out an existence in what could be an unforgiving countryside.
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As reported in the Hill Country Sun Magazine
Home-based wind turbines, new spin on old technology
If there was one technological symbol representing modern man’s earliest attempt to master his rural environment, it would have to be the ubiquitous “windmill.”
Dotting the countryside across greater Texas, these oft-seen wood and metal sentinels (a few still providing service) nostalgically remind us of earlier times when the distant rancher or farmer relied on the natural gift of wind to coax water from deep underground reservoirs and provide other services.
As power lines eventually linked the open spaces of the state, however, demand for these mechanical “workhorses” waned, seemingly relegating the personal harvesting of free wind to the scrap heap.
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