Juice - NPower

rygon

to me its just a gimmick. the electricity you get is the same and whether or not you go with green companies it isnt going to influence what type of turbine they build in the future...it all comes down to the price of fuel, the price of plant, running costs and the speed it can be put up. a few customers buying electricity at a slightly higher cost isnt going to sway them too much.
The main factor at the moment is the IPC (integrated pollution control) which tells the companies how much rubbish they can throw into the land sea and air (ie chlorine, NOx, chemicals etc) the lower the values the more efficient ways the company has to find to not breach. If you look at the carbon trading agreement where companies are given so many carbon units and if they want to burn more they will have to buy them from other companies. So if you have a large coal station its going to use a lot of units up..but if you have wind farms which dont use carbon up the units from the farm can be transferred to the coal site thus allowing it to burn more coal.

Money_Saving_Mike_2

I am NPower juice customer, and I have to agree to a certain a mount of sceptisism. In the welcome pack, they advised us that they do not supply us green energy, but commit to buying the amount of energy supplied to our home from carbon neutral sources.

We signed up, knowing full well that there are cheaper providers out there, but we are doing the right thing. What I didn't expect was a price rise in my electricity in the last month (gas fair enough!).

I understand that the cost of fuel has gone up recently, but when did the price of wind go up?

mmmm - something not right here.

So plenty of investigations into mini turbines and solar panels for me - I'm not going to pay NPower an inflated price for electricity (they do supply their non-green power cheaper in some cases) for them to meet their targets when I can generate my own power.

woollyjumper

I am in the process of switching from Southern Electric - standard rate to Scottish Hydro ( see uswitch for details) and reckon I will save £50 a year and I also help the environment - so can't complain (yet) - let you know if I get into any from the transfer !