You've changed all your filament light bulbs to low-energy ones, you've got a brick in your loo and you never leave appliances on standby. So what's next?How about switching your energy supplier to a green provider? It's easier than you think and might even save you money.
You can compare all the different energy suppliers at www.uswitch.com Get recent electricity and gas bills, because you will be asked for your postcode, your current suppliers and typical usage, and some details such as the number of bedrooms in your house, and how well insulated it is etc. Then you can ask for either the cheapest or the greenest electricity tariffs.
The site will tell you what you would pay with the new supplier, and how well they tare for customer satisfaction. You can even change online, although you will probably be sent a form by your old supplier confirming that you want to change. I even think you have a cooling-off period of about a month when you can change back easily, but I'll have to ask my personal domestic energy expert to confirm that one.
So how about it? Will you switch to a green energy tariff?
1 comment:
Well Mel, I did a couple of years ago by moving to Good Energy. Recently though, I found out that does not a hell a lot of Good; basically Good Energy (and a few others) bought up the hydro and wind components of the generating infrastructure when it was privatised, but haven't invested anything since. They're selling the energy to the grid in any case, so when you change to their tarriffs, you make no difference at all.
Choose a company that invests heavily in new eco generating capcity, of which Ecotricity seems to be the best of the bunch. Take a look at this article for details.
http://www.theecologist.co.uk/archive_detail.asp?content_id=428
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