Do you think who sends the bill makes a difference to the electricity used?
Every electron they send down the wire from a supplier, has a unique customer's address attached to it and will only be delivered to that address.
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Do you think who sends the bill makes a difference to the electricity used?
Hmmm! Are you aware of any company from which you can buy electricity that produces any electricity from anything?... presumably they'll buy their electricity from a company like ecotricity who don't produce electricity from gas ...
I'm trying to get my head around why that would make any difference in terms of carbon emissions or balance today - but so far have not succeeded!At least wood chips contain carbon that has been recently harvested by the trees as they were growing. ... Unlike oil and coal and gas that have carbon from millions of years ago.
If the money is going to a supplier which is only buying renewable, then it's going to build the market for renewable, so more renewable is built, and less gas used. If the company is also using the profit on that money to build renewable energy then yes it's going to directly increase the amount of renewable available, and therefore decrease the amount of gas burnt.Do you think who sends the bill makes a difference to the electricity used?
If the money is going to a supplier which is only buying renewable,
Hmmm! Are you aware of any company from which you can buy electricity that produces any electricity from anything?
Even if there is such a supplier, that's a (delayed) long-term matter, but I'm sure most people who go for these companies/tariffs (and maybe pay a premium from them) believe (are mislead into believing?) that they are thereby somehow having an impact on how much gas is biing used in real time (i.e. now).If the money is going to a supplier which is only buying renewable, then it's going to build the market for renewable, so more renewable is built, and less gas used.
... but it's surely the case that very few of the (many) electricity suppliers (including many that offer 'green'/'eco' tariffs) have anything to do with generation, or generation facilities, isn't it?If the company is also using the profit on that money to build renewable energy then yes it's going to directly increase the amount of renewable available, and therefore decrease the amount of gas burnt.
OK, but that doesn't mean that the electricity you get when you pay them for it is any different (or 'greener') than the electricity you would be using if you paid someone else.Yes, ecotricity produce electricity
And 1/100 of a second later they take it back.Every electron they send down the wire from a supplier, has a unique customer's address attached to it and will only be delivered to that address.
Which? recently did an investigation into green energy suppliers.
Key ridiculous point - "Under current government rules, suppliers can sell 100 per cent renewable electricity by purchasing Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGO) certificates for as little as £1.55 per customer"
Every electron they send down the wire from a supplier, has a unique customer's address attached to it and will only be delivered to that address.
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