Learn more about it at www.newwindenergy.com/nyc. Going completely renewable, completely green for your electricity usage is actually a simple as one mouse click and a few bucks.  Con Ed (and other companies) have a deregulated Energy Service Company (ESCO) that will vend your electricity in many permutations.  Con Edison Solutions (Con Ed’s ESCO) has a range of eco-friendly alternatives which you can read about. 

    Obviously Con Ed doesn’t string a cable from the windmill to your house, but they do buy the appropriate percentage of power from the wind and hydro sources to meet the contracted demand.  You can price the alternatives and sign up at http://www.conedsolutions.com/residential/greenpowermain.htm

    If you switch to one of the ESCOs and go either hydro/wind or wind, you can sleep better at night knowing that you are not making things worse (at least on the electricity front, but we’d encourage you to buy hybrid cars as well …), and if you can cut your electricity use by 10-20% independent of your choice of power source, you can bring your cost closer to your original cost.  If someone asked me to write a check to a charity equal to a percentage of my electric bill to fight global warming I would do it – I think of our switch to wind power as a more direct, but financially equivalent, alternative.  The stakes are higher; this is not only an environmental issue, but a global political one as well.  We've been on the wind power plan for about eighteen months now, and we're happy we switched.