This past weekend some of the staff here at IRE got to head up to Custer WI. and experience the 26th Annual Energy Fair. As it was our first time attending we did not know what expect. As it turned out, it could not have been a better experience. Each year the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA) hosts [...]
As you know, we're all about the sun here are IRE. We love that it can help reduce our electric and propane bills, we love that it shines bright, we love that it gives us a reason to go to the beach and wear coconut scented sunscreen. One other thing we love about the sun [...]
Summer's coming. No wait, summer is here! It's early June and the temperature is forecasted to reach the low 90's today. Woo hoo say some of you, and I agree, I love the sun! At the same time you're getting your Coppertone on and heading to the beach, you might also be closing up your [...]
We have been putting out our blog for about 3 months now and each week our topic is renewable related, but always different. Going into summer, we thought it would be good to put out there again, just who we are and what we do....... We moved into our office in early November of 2014. [...]
If you were on Jeopardy, and the answer was "install a PV system" what would be the question you would reply with? I love the possibilities here. One question could be 'what is a way to lower your electric bill?'. Another might be 'what's a great way to reduce your carbon footprint?' My favorite is 'what [...]
Since we've moved into our office in Sandwich, IL, we've have some awesome walk-in business. This is exciting for us, as we love to meet new people and everyone looking to find out about solar energy has a really cool story on why they want to go solar. We've met some wonderful folks who want [...]
History..... We're so excited here at IRE that Earth Day just happens to fall on Wednesday Blog Day! It's kismet or karma or maybe just a really happy accident. In any case, we're thrilled we get to talk about it. Let's go back to basics, what is Earth Day and how did it get started? [...]
Clean Green We are officially at the middle of April and this means a few things. First, it's tax day, this is not exciting unless you're an accountant, but it is necessary to mark the day. Second, the weather is generally cooperating and if you're at all like us here at IRE your windows are [...]
As Spring Breaks are coming to an end and the weather in the mid-west is warming, it always brings us to thoughts of summer. Thoughts of summer bring us to thoughts of warm sandy beaches and sun drenched days, which then bring us back the vacation that just ended or the one we didn't take [...]
If you've been reading our weekly blog, hopefully you've noticed that we're a pretty positive bunch around here. We like to talk about the sun shining and renewables. This is a great topic when you're trying to stay positive in that, renewables or more specifically, renewable energy sources don't run out. They don't harm the earth and [...]