Good Energy Green Electricity
Good Energy Green Electricity
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In our articles Change to a Green Supplier and Best UK Green Power Company we introduced Good Energy as being one of the best suppliers of renewable electricity in the UK. In this article we will look in more detail at Good Energy and the services they provide.
Good Energy
Good Energy supplies 100% renewable electricity. For every unit of electricity they sell, they buy one unit of electricity generated using renewable sources - solar, wind, or hydro. In doing so Good Energy are the only UK electricity supplier providing 100% renewable power to its customers. This differs significantly from other suppliers and their 'green tariffs'. Good Energy supply electricity to both homes and businesses.At the time of writing, approximately 92% of the electricity purchased is from wind power, 7% from micro-hydro power, and just 1% from PV Solar Power.
Typically you can expect your electricity bill to rise by around £4 per month compared to the big utility companies, however you can expect to save approximately two tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions at the same time greatly reducing your carbon footprint.
Change Your Supplier to Good Energy
If you are interested in finding out more about Good Energy or to change your power supplier to Good Energy, click here to visit the highly rated official Good Energy website.Switching electricity supplier is now a very quick and painless process which costs nothing and takes only a few minutes of your time.
National Consumer Council Best Rated Green Electricity Supplier
The National Consumer Council (NCC) found Good Energy to be the greenest electricity supplier since it sources 100% of its electricity from renewable sources. The NCC report (PDF) stated that "For those consumers who want a green electricity supply, pure and simple, this is probably the closest they will get to it."
Supply Electricity to Good Energy
If you are considering installing a grid-tied renewable energy system in your home or business, then Good Energy have an excellent Home Generation product which makes it easier for small scale renewable energy generators to get paid for the surplus electricity which they generate and export.
The main advantage of the Good Energy Home Generation scheme is that an export meter is not required - as long as the installed capacity is under 10kW and the amount exported to the grid is less than 5MWh per year. Instead an accredited total generation meter (pictured above) is required which records the total number of units of electricity generated.
Good Energy pay 4.5 pence for every kWh unit of electricity produced whether it is used onsite or exported to the grid. By taking regular meter readings of the total generation meter, credit for the units of electricity produced are added to the standard Good Energy electricity supply bill.
Even if you have an off-grid renewable energy generation system of under 10kW installed capacity, you can still qualify for the 4.5p per unit payment despite the fact all generated electricity is used onsite. As long as you have an accredited total generation meter, and make one meter reading per year, you will receive a payment minus an administration charge.
Click here to find out more about the Good Energy Home Generation product.
Article Last Modified: 11:30, 13th Sep 2007Comment on this Article
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