Green Power vs. Conventional vs. Renewable Energy

RPA Energy is an energy solutions provider with a strong emphasis on top-tier customer service. One-hundred percent of the energy distributed by RPA Energy is green energy, which contrasts starkly with conventional energy production, and even from renewable energy.

Conventional power generation is typically understood to be energy from the combustion of fossil fuels and nuclear power. In other words, it uses fuel sources that are by their very nature exhaustible in the short term.

Renewable energy, on the other hand, relies on fuel sources that can be restored in the short term and don’t deplete in the same way conventional sources do. These include solar power, aeolic energy, and geothermal energy.

Green energy is a subcategory of renewable energy which adds the discriminatory factor of using technologies focused on environmental benefit. Typically, this means energy produced with zero emissions and a net negative carbon footprint. In some ways, renewable energy can be thought of as trying to do less harm to the environment, while green energy is about actively producing a benefit.