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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UK Wind Turbines

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 [...]

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Scotland Passes Renewable Energy Barrier

Scottish Green Energy Day – Good News Story
In the midst of the rather difficult times of recent months its great to have a positive green energy story to write about, particularly when it has a Scottish slant. The BBC reported on Tuesday (28/10) that Scottish Renewable energy capacity has passed through the three gigawatt barrier [...]

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The emerging UK Green Energy movement

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 [...]

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Why switch gas or electricity supplier?

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 [...]

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Best performing energy supplier

Energy Watch names best performing energy provider
Energy watch has released data that shows Scottish and Southern as the best energy provider in the market at the moment

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A blow to the Scottish green power effort

Scottish Executive bends to extensive public pressure
It was announced by the BBC1 today that the Scottish Executive2 has blocked the application for the Lewis Wind Farm. The initial proposal was to build 181 wind turbines on the Isle of Lewis making it the worlds largest wind farms.
The local people have had to fight Lewis Wind [...]

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Electricity provider offers fixed price on green energy

Southern electric energy provider offers fixed rates on fuel prices including renewable energy tariffs.
This week some of the UK’s biggest energy providers announce a minimum increase of 19% on gas and electricity bills. This most recent price hike has been blamed on the mounting prices of wholesale energy. The price increase is due to take [...]

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