Posted in Energy News, European Energy, energy provider, green energy, tagged Energy News, green energy, Infra Red on October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Are You Losing Energy??
Worried about your gas, electric and water bills and whether you’re wasting energy in your home?
A new program from the city of Fresno’s Planning and Development Department can help. It’s a new thing called the energy survey programme where basically they scan all areas of your house with an infra red device [...]
Posted in Energy News, Green Electricity, UK energy, cheap electricity, energy provider, tagged cheaper gas and electricity, energy retail association, energy savings, energy-bills, energy-efficiency, gas bills, switching energy supplier on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If truth be told there are a number of these consumer representative organisations out there – all undertaking extremely worthy work and research in order to keep the energy firms on their toes and save us a bit of cash on our cheaper gas and electrcity bills. However, by far the most comprehensive and sensible [...]
Posted in Energy News, UK energy, cheap electricity, energy provider, tagged cheap energy, cheap-electrcicty, energy-prices, energy-tariffs, ofgem, uk-energy-suppliers on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As you have probably read in your newspaper today, OFGEM is warning UK consumers that they should be seriously considering switching energy suppliers in the next few months. This is because the popular fixed price energy tariffs offered by some of the biggest energy suppliers are coming to an end in August. Many people signed [...]
Posted in European Energy, Green Electricity, Green Electricity Providers, UK energy, cheap electricity, energy provider, tagged cheap-energy-bills, energy-companies, european-energy-companies, uk-energy-consumers, uk-energy-suppliers on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Understandably, as consumers we are very much focused on getting the cheapest gas and electricity bills that we can. There are very few of us that actually give any thought to the ‘bigger picture’ of who we are actually paying to supply our energy. This is a particular issue in these difficult economic times – [...]
Posted in Green Electricity, Green Electricity Providers, UK energy, cheap electricity, energy provider, green energy, tagged energy-twitter, green energy, green-energy-twitter, twitter, uk-green-energy on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘Micro blogging’ website Twitter has exploded in popularity over the past year. The energy sector is well represented, principally with green thinkers all sharing ideas and opinions. It seems however, that many major energy companies are still trying to grasp how to deal with this phenomenon – only a few are represented.
We thought that it [...]
Posted in Green Electricity, Hydro Power, cheap electricity, energy provider, green energy, tagged Green Electricity, green energy, how-hyrdo-works, hydro, Hydro Power, hydroelectric, hydropower, scottish-hydro-electric on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There are some great sources of learning on the internet for those of us who wish to fully understand how green energy technologies actually work. We thought that it would be useful to focus on different technology in the coming weeks.
Today – hydro power and how this method generates electricity.
The HowStuffWorks [...]
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Green Electricity, UK energy, cheap electricity, energy provider, green energy, tagged google, google-powermeter, smart-metering, smart-meters, uk-smart-meter, uk-smart-meters on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The UK government announced yesterday that they have passed the necessary legislation for the use of ’smart meters’ in every UK home by 2020. What is so revolutionary about this move is that it will allow consumers to take control of their own energy usage, and put an end to estimated bills.
This has been a [...]
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Green Electricity, Green Electricity Providers, UK energy, energy provider, green energy, tagged wind energy, green energy, Green Electricity, Wind-Farm, RenewableEnergy, wind-turbine on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The gails and winds that sweep across the United Kingdom every day can be harnessed by wind turbines to provide huge amounts of electricity. Wind turbines situated in suitable area’s already provide a small, but growing percentage of the UK’s energy, and are used successfully [...]
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Green Electricity, Green Electricity Providers, UK energy, energy provider, green energy, tagged Carbon Footprint, Green Electricity, green energy, hydro electric power, hydro electricity, renewable energy, scottish government, uk energy consumption on May 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Long Road
The UK has a long way to go in order to reduce its carbon footprint. Although there has been a demonstrable rise in awareness of green issues amongst the general public, the UK still lags behind many of its European neighbours in the amount of electricity generated from renewable sources (the statistics speak [...]
Posted in Green Electricity, Green Electricity Providers, UK energy, energy provider, tagged electricity, energy provider, gas, green power, UK energy on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reasons for why to change energy supplier
Well I they are not really my reasons but I do agree with them; they’re the ideas of money saving expert Martin lewis. You can read them all here http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/you-switch-gas-electricity#cut
Unfortunately he doesn’t go in to detail about green electricity or gas aspect of it all but at least it [...]
