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Getting really annoyed with the "We use 100% renewable" taglines on our electricity bills

marcusjclifford · 2022-04-17 21:12:27

Hi all, Probably done to death already, but I am getting so very annoyed at seeing the "We use 100% renewable electricity" or words to that effect on so many of our electricity bills and advertisements yet the prices charged keep going up. Scotland I think last year generated 98% of it's electricity using renewables, yet…

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Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite

19 April 2022 at 1:07PM

marcusjclifford said:

Surely there is a disconnect here and they should either be honest or (no way going to happen) keep the prices low as they are using renewables.

Renewable energy isn't cheap to produce.

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