Renewable electricity now affordable

I was pootling around the web this morning, and I stumbled across an old bookmark to ecotricity - www.ecotricity.co.uk

Ecotricity have a couple of green tariffs. Their main one is a supply where they supply as much ebergy as they can from their wind farms, and top the rest up with conventional sources. Thing is they take the money their customers spend on electricity and invest it in clean forms of power like wind energy. Apparantly, they are the only green electricity company actually building these new renewable energy sources. And if you look at the stats, they certainly back these claims up...

A while back I looked at ecotricity (amongst others), and there was still a definite premium to pay for this sort of tariff and investment. Well, npower have seen fit to increase our monthly payment yet again, and with their 17% increase in prices, I thought I'd revisit green energy. And the difference is not down to a few pounds a month. Certainly small enough for me to seriously consider switching.

I also looked into sourcing gas from a different supplier on a green tariff. As there's no such thing as green gas, best you can go for is a carbon offsetting tariff. Anyway I've found one that is cheaper than npowers gas.

So all in all it looks like a switch to a greener energy supply with a company that is actually investing in renewable sources, rather than paying lip service to the Governments (tiny) requirements need not cost a great deal more than traditional tariffs...

I'll check my figures again - I may even have switched before the end of the evening...