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Tweet ThisIt takes just minutes but the benefits live on for years: switch to a green energy supplier by filling in one simple form and your carbon emissions will plummet. Give your valuable money to a trusted company who’ll invest it in creating a clean, green and secure energy supply.
40%
of all Europe’s wind resource blows over the UK... Let’s use it!
How?
It couldn’t be much easier and you don’t have to move an inch - you can do it right now, with a few simple clicks.
You don’t have to have new power lines installed, and you don’t have to stick a wind turbine on the roof. You simply switch provider to one who will invest in producing renewable energy to feed into the grid. And of course, you’ll still benefit from the reliability of the National Grid.
We’ve pulled out what are widely believed to be the two most reliable and effective green energy tariffs Ecotricity and Good Energy.
Special Offer: Switch to Good Energy before the 31st March 2014 and get two bottles of organic wine! Just quote 'The DoNation'.
Good Energy sources its electricity from UK renewables like sunshine, wind and water. It supports a growing community of over 55,000 homes, businesses and communities generating their own green power.
Not only does Good Energy usually cost less than the Big Six’s standard dual fuel tariffs, it has been voted top of the Which? customer satisfaction survey three out of the last four years and has consistently topped Ethical Consumer’s survey as the best green electricity supplier. So you can be sure switching to their supply is good for the planet as well as your pocket.
Ecotricity are a friendly bunch who have just two tariffs, one for electricity and one for gas and these are both dedicated to building new sources of green energy – put them together for the ultimate green dual fuel.
100% Green Electricity
They have one simple tariff for all their customers.
They turn your energy bills into windmills and on average, over the last nine years, have spent more per customer on building new sources of green electricity than all of the other energy providers put together.
Green Gas
For the ultimate green home why not switch to their Green Gas too? Just as they turn Green Electricity bills into windmills they're now going to turn Green Gas bills into gasmills.
If you'd like to speak to one of the friendly Ecotricity team, call 08000 302 302 (and be sure to tell them you heard about them through The DoNation!).
Why?
Energy security
It’s fairly well known that much of the UK’s oil comes from Russia and the Middle East (but most comes from Norway); It’s perhaps a lesser-known fact that our top three sources of coal are Russia, South Africa and Colombia1.
Increasing our generation of renewable electricity will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, gas and coal – that’s got to be a good thing. It’ll also help to protect us from increasingly unpredictable oil prices, international disputes and the other threats of peak oil.
Clean energy technology is ready and waiting for our money. So show the power-daddies that you want it clean – switch to a green energy tariff today.
Climate change
Electricity generation accounts for a whopping 1/3 of the UK’s carbon emissions, and we’re lagging shamefully behind our European friends in the renewable generation game. Given our windy and coast-rich island setting, the mere 6.6% energy we get from renewable sources is a bit embarrassing.
The government is slowly cranking up the target levels of renewable energy feeding into the mix (it’s currently at an unambitious 11%), but many suppliers aren’t even meeting this.
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