Green energy

Green energy sources

If you buy green electricity you are supporting wind, tidal, small-scale hydro and solar energy plus sewage, biomass and landfill gas sources. 

Green energy tariffs

A number of electricity companies offer green tariffs.  For details visit the National Consumer Council web site and the following suppliers:

• www.good-energy.co.uk
• www.ecotricity.co.uk
• www.greenelectricity.org
• www.greenenergy.uk.com
• www.ebico.co.uk
• www.npower.com/greenenergy

From Stephen Bowler, Church House Shrinking the Footprint Group, October 2007:

Good Energy is generally acknowledged to be unique as an energy supply company in the UK, in that all its energy comes from renewable sources, making it the ‘deepest’ green energy supplier currently on the market.  It has also achieved the highest ethical ratings from independent assessors such as the National Consumer Council, who comment “for those consumers who want a green energy supply, pure and simple, this is probably the closest they will get to it.”

Reality or rhetoric? Green tariffs for domestic consumers – download the report on green tariffs published by the National Consumer Council

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