E.on rolls out 100% renewable electricity for all residential customers - MSE News 9 July 2019 at 9:29AM in Energy 10 replies 1.2K views

Former_MSE_Callum

E.on is now providing all of its residential customers across Britain with 100% renewable electricity supply as standard from today...

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LeeCox

the electricity will come from a variety of sources including wind, solar and biomass.

Biomass? What is Biomass?

Biomass is fuel that is developed from organic materials.

People have used biomass for heating and cooking for thousands of years. If you have an open fire in your house, or a log burner as is more common nowadays, or have ever cooked over a campfire, you have used biomass.

Biomass is most cost effectively made from crops specifically planted for that purpose.

Do you get the picture yet?

We are talking lumber, ...wood, ... trees! :eek:

E.on UK chief executive Michael Lewis said: “We believe large-scale action can make significant change possible

Just look what large scale action has already done to the Amazon Rainforest

Paenymion

Isn't this just a marketing gimmick? UK wide we have a total demand for energy, and only 20% of that demand is satisfied by renewables currently (http://gridwatch.co.uk/). So sure, EON can "only buy renewable" but that just means there is less renewable energy available for other users right? Only buying renewable energy doesn't mean the non-renewable sources stop being used or even reduce in use, it just means someone else uses more of it when EON uses less of it. Or am I missing something.

matelodave

How can they be certain that they are supplying 100% of renewable energy just to their customers.

It's not been ever so sunny here today and there's not a breath of wind to turn a turbine so what do they do, turn everyone off until the sun shines or the wind blows or do they chuck another log into the boiler?.

The leccy comes through the grid so they really don't know what is generating or where it come from it unless they've got an isolated network and generate it themselves.

Former_E.ON_Company_Representative:_Malc

matelodave wrote: »

How can they be certain that they are supplying 100% of renewable energy just to their customers.

It's not been ever so sunny here today and there's not a breath of wind to turn a turbine so what do they do, turn everyone off until the sun shines or the wind blows or do they chuck another log into the boiler?.

The leccy comes through the grid so they really don't know what is generating or where it come from it unless they've got an isolated network and generate it themselves.

Hello matelodave and thought I'd confirm, the electricity supplied to our customer's homes comes from the National Grid. It's now matched from renewable sources.

As above, all of our customer's homes are now backed by 100% renewable electricity. This is sourced from our own renewable generation assets, the power we buy from independent renewable power generators in the UK and the purchase of renewable electricity certificates (these guarantee the electricity is generated from a renewable source).

Hope this helps explain matelodave. There's more information about this on our website.

Malc

Smodlet

E.ON_Company_Representative:_Malc wrote: »

Hello matelodave and thought I'd confirm, the electricity supplied to our customer's homes comes from the National Grid. It's now matched from renewable sources.

As above, all of our customer's homes are now backed by 100% renewable electricity. This is sourced from our own renewable generation assets, the power we buy from independent renewable power generators in the UK and the purchase of renewable electricity certificates (these guarantee the electricity is generated from a renewable source).

Hope this helps explain matelodave. There's more information about this on our website.

Malc

Hi Malc, everybody.

Sorry but this sounds like so much marketing flatulence to me; pity y'all can't make leccy out of that. It also sounds expensive so I am not surprised your Fix Online v23 tariff's prices are horrendous. Man, you have to be quick to catch an Eon tariff; I blinked and missed v22 probably because I did not scroll down five or six pages to see it. I am so very glad I caught v21, which has brilliant rates except for the leccy unit price; now I know why.

As has already been said (and as if we all don't already know) all electricity comes from the same National Grid, whoever supplies it. Trying to claim you are providing only "green" energy is like trying to stick a bucket into the Nile delta and then claim all the water in it came from only one tributary; it's nonsense.

Malc, you really earn your money, don't you?

Cardew

matelodave wrote: »

How can they be certain that they are supplying 100% of renewable energy just to their customers.

Renewable Energy passes through a special filter and the rest is discarded.


You obviously have not read the latest version of Donald Trump's 'Guide to the Environment'

Smodlet

Cardew wrote: »

Renewable Energy passes through a special filter and the rest is discarded.


You obviously have not read the latest version of Donald Trump's 'Guide to the Environment'

How dumb are we? :doh:

matelodave

Cardew wrote: »

Renewable Energy passes through a special filter and the rest is discarded.


You obviously have not read the latest version of Donald Trump's 'Guide to the Environment'

Thanks for that - It's really obvious when you think about it.

I'm guessing that's what a smart meter does, it just lets the renewable leccy through to the customer, leaving the rest for everyone else.

That's really quite clever. is that why they don't work when you change suppliers?

Smodlet

matelodave wrote: »

Thanks for that - It's really obvious when you think about it.

I'm guessing that's what a smart meter does, it just lets the renewable leccy through to the customer, leaving the rest for everyone else.

That's really quite clever. is that why they don't work when you change suppliers?

I really couldn't say, matelodave. I suppose, if they all have their own, unique, incompatible filters, that could well be the case. I think Cardew has cracked it!

mac.d

matelodave wrote: »

I'm guessing that's what a smart meter does, it just lets the renewable leccy through to the customer, leaving the rest for everyone else.

That's really quite clever. is that why they don't work when you change suppliers?

:T
Thanks guys you and Cardew have definitely cracked it