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Green Elecricity Like Never Before
As we are a green electricity site most of our posts and articles, as interesting they maybe are about rising energy prices, how to save money and energy, global warming, climate change and what we are doing to save the planet of an unprecedented apocalypse. Today I thought it would be [...]

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Invaluable Advice from the Energy Retail Association (ERA)

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 [...]

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UK Consumers: Who owns your energy?

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 – [...]

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Follow the Green Energy Sector on Twitter

‘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 [...]

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Hydro Power – How does it work?

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 [...]

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Energy Assembly Dismantle

EUGENE’s general assembly has recently voted for the dismantling of its recognition after 5 brilliant years together.  The Board and members have decided to still promote green electricity and energy in Europe but have come to the decision that they will cease to exist as EUGENE’s.
The website (www.clean-e.org) will still be showing CLEAN-E results from [...]

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UN Report Highlights Rising Green Energy Investment

 
Despite the continuing economic downturn, global investment in green energy has increased significantly over the past year and overtaken fossil fuel investment. This rather surpirsing fact comes from the ‘Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009′ report which was prepared for the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative by global information provider New [...]

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Smart Metering in all UK homes by 2020

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 [...]

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Green Policies Central to Upcoming UK Budget

Green Policies in UK Budget
In an echo of President Obama’s initiatives of a few months ago, the upcoming April 22nd UK budget, to be delivered by Chancellor Alistair Darling, is set to incorporate green initiatives as a central axis of a program to boost the UK economy.
According to an interview in The Independent, the government [...]

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Cheap Green Electricity

Cheap Green Electricity
Or is it?
With the world now offering us green cheap electricity we are moving onto a new error in our society, but how is it you see all the signs, adverts and TV commercials offering us cheap green electricity that we can never find cheap energy- anywhere, these big corporations keep pushing up [...]

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