What is the cheapest energy company for a small business in Houston, TX area?
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Well, It depends on how much electricy to use, or if you want to sign a lengthy contract.\n\nA Good website (that I would recommend you visit) is\nhttp://www.powertochoose.org/
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contact a goodwill industries from your state or contact a company that provides help for energy and /or gas bills..Contact your local welfare office seriously, they may know the programs availaible in your state
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Varies by nation and by state and city.  For example we are in a small rual town in TN,  Those that delivery O2 or Propane will get about 10 dollars a hour,
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Better Business Bureau, google it for your area
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I don't know, but if you find one, let me know so I can move there.  I wish to integrate all of these into my new home but the cost is unbelievable.  The wind turbines will cost 20k and the solar panels around 30k.  I haven't even begun to look into the waste system yet.  Electric companies only buy and sell electricity and service the delivery equipment.  Look at the logo on the sides of their trucks...they are all the same logo, just a different name.  What a wonderful world.  haha
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Good question.\n\nThere seem to be many other sources of energy but they seem to be expensive to obtain or to require large amounts of land to be dedicated to crop growth or for collectors.  This is in itself a type of inefficiency. \n\nIn the long term prices may come down but energy such as crop based gasoline alternatives don't seem to me like they would cut it with a growing demand for gas their will be a growing demand for the amount of land that must be dedicated to its production. not to mention the population is growing and its not going to stop.\n\nIf we move toward becoming almost entirely dependent upon alternative energy we must move towards harnessing different kinds of power and not just search for one solution.\n\nA lot of money would be lost from a lot of big companies.\n\nFor instance there is a windmill type device you can purchase for your home needs right now for around $10,000 it is highly efficient\nand supposedly super quiet.  It is said to be able to generate between 30% to all of a homes energy needs depending on where you live. If too much energy is generated the excess may be sold back to the electrical company.  \n\nIf you could purchase three of these at the hefty price of $30,000 you could theoretically not ever have to pay a power bill again in some places or pay almost no bill at all. The electrical companies services could be utilized as a form of backup power.  \n\nIf everyone had these wind collectors this would certainly shrink the electrical power industry.\n\nThere is no information available to me about how much it can cost to repair these items or how well they can withstand the event of a hurricane or tornado. \n\nBut I dont think think alternative energy is a pipe dream it is just something that is going to take a large investment to start up and develop towards higher levels of performance and efficiency. \n\nThe engineering of rugged devices will have to play a large role and does currently, however, a lot of trial and error needs to occur to see what works where and why and what got destroyed by random acts of god and the forces of nature and how that can be prevented.\n\nShould things begin to look rather good for alternative energy... and it seems things look better day by day... energy companies would have to begin facing downsizing and new business models and perhaps invest themselves into the production of alternative energy or alternative energy generating devices for sale to the public.  Either way at some point they wont be the economic giants they have been to this point and thats probably gonna keep them from helping.\n\nAlternative energy will only be a pipe dream if people are afraid to nurture it and harness the energies available. This is something that is and will be heavily influenced by politics.\n\nOn another note, I think that nuclear power seems to be an "easy way out" but I don't believe that it is a good or secure solution.  There have been so many nuclear mishaps you dont hear about and so much waste that you cant prevent or do anything about. Aside from alternative energy being developed for fear of a lack of oil I also thought a large part of it was moving towards a cleaner earth. Moving towards nuclear power and nuclear waste is dangerous for everyone.  Radiation does not simply go away it is corruption of matter and it is "contagious".  Sure we could maybe launch it off into space, but should something go wrong on the way out of here we would face yet another type of radiological disaster.
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550W $13.99, Free Shipping, Reliable Site (I have used Amamax many times)\n\nhttp://www.amamax.com/pomaxceb5020.html
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Your best deals will be through major manufactures for pricing, they have the infrastructure and service techs to handle nationwide issues ... i would suggest contacting Gateway, Dell, Toshiba and Compact/HP .. you will want to have a consistent and reliable line ... smaller companies tend to have offbrands of questionable reliability and limited servicability .. the major companies will do onsite service and can ship major parts overnight if necessary.   Smaller comapnies tend to require shipping the unit to their plant for service which most customers find annoying.
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Try GT Solar Inc.:\n\nhttp://www.gtsolar.com/products/celfab.php\n\nor Spire Corp.:\n\nhttp://www.spirecorp.com/spire-solar/turnkey-module-production-lines/index.php
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try oil/gas companies, security agencies... not sure what else
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Try this link to Texas based V.C. firms.\n\nhttp://www.gaebler.com/Texas-venture-capital-firms.htm
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The Energy Information Adminstration is a great resource for this.  Information can be organized and sorted many differnt way over many years.\nhttp://www.eia.doe.gov/\n\nhttp://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mg_tt_usw.htm\nIncidently, all prices are in cents.  I was confused for a minute or so until I figured that out.
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A fired heater will probably be the cheapest way.  You could try electric heaters (you can buy the elements from water heaters at appliance repair shops - they use 240V), but the electricity cost will probably be more than for the fuel (if you were thinking gas/petrol, maybe propane or natural gas will be cheaper).  I also don't know if I'd be comfortable putting electric elements in 3500 gallons of biodiesel - I've seen a few kitchen fires, and burning oil is never pleasant.\n\nYou could also consider solar heating - it would be cheaper in the long run, but any efficient installation would have to involve heating panels, piping, pumps, and a lot of water.  You could try painting your tank black, but that probably won't work very well unless you live in the desert or high plains.
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I used to work for PETRO the largest home heating oil company on the Eastern seaboard of USA....but I don't anymore, so my personal opinion is that electric is cheaper. The cost of home heating oil has gone up by about 2.5 times the price it was a year and a half ago! That's crazy!
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It's called SEP a link is below. Also the Department of Natural Resources has programs for alternative fuel promotion.
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Your best bet is to contact your local utility like Edison or PG&E.
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