Our Energy is Now Green Energy

So Rosemarie and I have finally switched over to green power. Yay! The companies we are using are Good Energy for the Electricity and Utilita for gas.

I like Good Energy especially, they don’t supply gas, everything they do is 100% renewable. It was surprisingly cheap and should save us a little bit from British Gas. One of the the things Good Energy impressed me with was their work with micro-generation. They will actually pay you to generate your own power even if you don’t sell it back to the grid, which I assume is them making a government offsetting scheme available to the little guys.

Utilia are also good, for us it’s because they are offsetting our Gas usage. However, although they do use fossil fuels in part, they have a much better balance than most energy companies. They are investing in more green power than the government requires. They advocate energy saving quite well with schemes to award you free energy saving items such as loft insulation and light bulbs.

A cute little site called The Nag helped me switch with some great advice on which green tariffs really weren’t green. Some of the bug players in the market simply charge you more to switch to a green tariff getting energy from renewable sources. This is even though the government requires them to provide a percentage of their energy from renewable sources.

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