MSE News: Is it worth paying a monthly membership to get cheap energy?
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But others will want the energy actually supplied to them to be renewable.
We are all supplied by a bucket of water (the grid), some companies are filling it with Evian (renewable energy) and some with swamp water (fossil fuels). What comes out your tap (electricity meter) will always be a mixture of both (green and brown energy).
By choosing a renewable supplier, all you can be sure of is that the wholesale portion of you energy bill is funding only renewable energy generation.0 -
Which is impossible with our current setup.
We are all supplied by a bucket of water (the grid), some companies are filling it with Evian (renewable energy) and some with swamp water (fossil fuels). What comes out your tap (electricity meter) will always be a mixture of both (green and brown energy).
By choosing a renewable supplier, all you can be sure of is that the wholesale portion of you energy bill is funding only renewable energy generation.
But this is nitpicking and I think that what you say would be fairly apparent to anybody, especially they dont have a large solar farm next to them.0 -
My current supplier Co-op Energy charge me £117 a month for gas and electricity, their new deal starting 1st March is £135 a month so I shopped around and decided to go with Outfox the Market who quoted me £61 plus the monthly subscription so even if they charge me the highest rate I am still £60 better off a month. Only time will tell if I made the right choice or not.0
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Which is impossible with our current setup.
What isn't possible is doing it through the national gas or electricity grids. Using those you can only change the overall shared mixture. But there's at least one supplier using the grid which has claimed to actually deliver renewable power to their customers, not just feed some in while delivering to the customer the same mixture as others in the street.
Both actual delivery and feeding some into the grid can be desired, what I'm asking is for MSE to be clear about what customers are really buying.0
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