Renewable Electricity Suppliers

martinpike

This appears to be a sensible appraisal of the options out there - CAT are a well respected organisation - there's a lot of smoke and mirrors out there!

http://www.cat.org.uk/information/catinfo.tmpl?command=search&db=catinfo.db&eqSKUdatarq=20020925155707

Ken68

Can't see large companies with a cash flow problem, not dipping their grubby hands into the till, same as they did with the pensions pot.

little_miss_thrifty

Hi, we changed to Ecotricity a couple of years ago - it wasn't the cheapest company to change to (in general, as opposed to just green suppliers), but i thought, we have to support ANY green supplier sooner rather than later.
It still may not be the cheapest for us now, but if i did switch it would only be to another green supplier anyway.
We are one less customer for the big companies.

martinpike

Here's a review of the options from Ethical Consumer magazine...

http://www.ethiscore.org/report.aspx?ID=245274&free=true

silverbirch1

Hi, I've just changed to Npower's Juice tarriff and I think it's as good as the other exclusively "green" ones. They put in an equivalent amount (to your usage) into the national grid from North Hoyle Wind Farm (new renewable energy) and for each year that you stay with them they contribute 10 pounds to new projects (e.g. at the moment there's one on wave power in Cornwall).

SaverSarah_2

This is absolutely not intended to be taken as a criticism in any way, because it's fantastic that you've even thought about renewable energy at all, but I believe npower are only doing the statutory minimum with Juice, supplying the percentage of renewable energy that ALL electricity suppliers are required by the government to do, BUT (and it's a big but) at least npower are talking about doing it, and they are investing more in renewable energy generation than the other big boys.

If you're an npower customer, you can switch to Juice and still pay the same monthly cost. If that's the case, why doesn't everyone do it?

So a kinda well done to npower for Juice, but still not as much of a commitment as Good Energy and Ecotricity.

CopperPlate_2

Is the OP still with the same supplier? Seems kinda appropriate to revisit this thread now given the increases in prices, etc and the 'green bandwagon' some of the big companies have jumped on recently - it's about 2 years ago that the OP posted?