{"id":402,"date":"2017-03-13T14:36:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T18:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=402"},"modified":"2017-03-13T14:36:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T18:36:37","slug":"from-the-web-startup-lets-small-businesses-buy-wind-and-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/13\/from-the-web-startup-lets-small-businesses-buy-wind-and-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Startup Lets Small Businesses Buy Wind And Solar Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-403\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-11-at-5.29.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1422\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-11-at-5.29.03-PM.png 1422w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-11-at-5.29.03-PM-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-11-at-5.29.03-PM-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-11-at-5.29.03-PM-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-11-at-5.29.03-PM-500x277.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Google decided to shift to 100% renewable energy, it worked directly with wind and solar farms to sign deals. A new U.K.-based startup called <strong>Squeaky<\/strong> lets small businesses easily do the same thing at a smaller scale\u2014business owners can choose a wind farm to support, and then start buying renewable electricity at the same price they were paying for energy from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The rapid growth of independent renewable generators, driven by the falling cost of wind and solar, makes a platform like Squeaky possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3068378\/this-startup-lets-small-businesses-buy-all-their-power-directly-from-wind-and-solar-farms\">Learn more<\/a> <\/strong><em>(via Fast Company)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Google decided to shift to 100% renewable energy, it worked directly with wind and solar farms to sign deals. A new U.K.-based startup called Squeaky lets small businesses easily do the same thing at a smaller scale\u2014business owners can choose a wind farm to support, and then start buying renewable electricity at the same &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/13\/from-the-web-startup-lets-small-businesses-buy-wind-and-solar-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Startup Lets Small Businesses Buy Wind And Solar Power&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425622],"tags":[17503,41478,4433],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-renewables","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-innovation","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-6u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}