Viridian Energy Review

There are several MLM companies taking advantage of the deregulation of the energy market in certain states. Viridian Energy is an alternative energy company that sells green energy services in deregulated markets through a direct sales model.  Viridian's primary difference from its MLM competitors such as Ambit Energy, ACN and Ignite is that Viridian's electricity products exceed the Renewable Portfolio Standards (which require electricity suppliers and utilities to source a minimum amount of their electricity from clean energy sources) by at least 20% in each state in which they operate.

Viridian Energy offers two different electricity products: 20% renewable Everyday Green and 100% renewable, wind-generated Pure Green. Viridian charges variable rates for their services, which means that the rate will change month-to-month as the price of electricity goes up or down.

To become a Viridian Associate, you must enroll and pay a fee. If you want to be eligible to enroll customers from any state that Viridian serves, the fee is $399.00. If you will only be enrolling customers from one state, the fee is $199.00. Viridian charges its Associates a $20 monthly fee for a website and training tools, and there is also an annual renewal fee. Viridian Associates are paid for each customer they sign up, each month that they remain a customer. Associates can earn more when they sponsor others to become Viridian Associates, and for the customers they sign up.

To summarize my Viridian Energy review, it's a legitimate company that provides its customers a service (green energy options) that is lacking in most areas. The question I have is how many customers a Viridian Associate would have to sign up to recoup their initial investment. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find an answer on Viridian's website, but I suspect that you would have to sign up a significant number of customers and/or build a very large downline in order to earn some decent residual income.

It's very hard to find any Viridian Energy reviews that are negative, or even any complaints. The closest thing I found was a person asking if Viridian Energy was just another MLM scam. Everyone who is involved with Viridian seems to be happy with what they're doing, the way the company treats its associates, and the money that they are making.

To answer the question of how many people a Viridian Associate would have to sign up to cover their initial investment, it would depend on the initial investment. You get a starting bonus of $300 if you sign up 15 people within 90 days, which sounds like it would be very difficult for anyone without a lot of marketing experience, or at least some jedi mind tricks. 

One Viridian Energy review I did find was not from a Viridian Associate, but a disgruntled Viridian customer, who claims that after listening to Viridian rant about saving you 20-30% on energy and switching over to Viridian Energy, his bill actually increased from $81.31 to $81.75. This isn't much of an increase, but it's definitely not "saving 20-30%". The person writing this review also said that he called his friend who was a Viridian Energy Associate to find out why there was an increase, and stated that this Associate, a Representative of Viridian Energy, had hardly any information about the company and told him to call Viridian to find out.

Viridian Energy doesn't seem to me to be a scam. Every company has a few disgruntled customers, and the Viridian Energy review that this customer wrote didn't continue to say what the reason was that his energy bill went up. It seems that if you have some marketing skills or even really good people skills, you could make a profit from Viridian Energy. However, I feel that if you're planning on investing in an MLM company, there are probably those that are much more lucrative than Viridian Energy.