Gore also purchases carbon credits every year to offset his whole carbon footprint including all his traveling.
Al gores house no solar panels.
Armed with gore s utility bills for the last two years the tennessee center for policy research charged monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president s 20 room home and pool house devoured more than 20 times the national average i appreciate the solar panels drew johnson of tcpr said but he also has.
The electricity that is not covered by gore s solar panels he purchases from a utility company that only uses renewables like solar and wind.
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At the time of the greening of gore s home the installation of solar panels including labor and the electronic components necessary to convert solar energy into a current that can be fed into the commercial electric grid cost approximately 3 to 5 per watt.
A 2007 report from the tennessee center for policy research tcpr claiming that al gore s tennessee home uses over 20 times more energy than the average u s.
22 installing 9 240 watts of solar panels at an average labor and hardware cost of 4 per watt gore spent another 36 960 in estimated installation charges.
The gores also participate in the green powerswitch program offered by their utility company.
22 installing 9 240 watts of solar panels at an average labor and hardware cost of 4 per watt gore spent another 36 960 in estimated installation charges.
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