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Behemoth

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Location: Leeds

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 05 8:55 am Post subject: Customers to see Green fuel on bills

Department of Trade and Industry (National)

CUSTOMERS SEE GREEN ON FUEL BILLS

From tomorrow electricity customers can see for the first time how green their supplier is, as firms have to show how much of their electricity is generated from renewable fuel.

Electricity suppliers must give their customers a breakdown of the fuels they've used to generate the electricity they provide, as well as the CO2 emissions and radioactive waste produced.

UK Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks said:

"To help tackle global warming at an individual level consumers need to make informed choices, and fuel disclosure is a key ingredient in helping people to do that.

"With a target of 10 per cent of electricity generation from renewables by 2010, and an aspiration to get it to 20 per cent by 2020, the disclosure rule is an asset to both domestic and business customers.

"Liberalised electricity markets give consumers a choice of supplier based on cost. From today, that choice will also be based on how the electricity was generated and the impact that has on the environment, so giving consumers even more choice in where their money goes.

"If you're concerned about global warming and CO2 emissions, take a closer look at your next bill, it could make all the difference."

The UK already has a Kyoto commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2008-12, and a target of 10 per cent of all electricity generation from renewables by 2010.

Notes for Editors

1. The Fuel Mix Disclosure is a requirement of the Electricity Liberalisation Directive (2003/54/EC) which states that electricity suppliers must provide information about the percentage of electricity they supply that has been generated using coal, gas, nuclear, renewable, or other fuels. This information must be provided to consumers at least once a year with bills and on written material that promotes sales of electricity. They must also provide a breakdown of CO2 emissions and radioactive waste.

Andy B

Joined: 12 Jan 2005
Posts: 3920
Location: Brum

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 05 9:08 am Post subject:
Their was a thing in the Mail on saturday ( yes the paper everyone loves to hate ) about tomato growers in Spain. You could see the sea of plastic from a satelite photo and the way they grow the things wasn't natural either. Oops just realised that i put this in the wrong thread and i dont know how to move it.

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 814
Location: Derby

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 05 9:42 am Post subject:

Andy B wrote:

Oops just realised that i put this in the wrong thread and i dont know how to move it.

I just thought I wasn't awake enough yet (

) to see the connection!

About the energy thing, it won't give the consumers the whole story will it, as I understood it it's not just about what they buy it's about what they invest in new renewable generators?

Has anyone seen the big wind turbine in Swaffham, I love that thing, it's like the angel of East Anglia to me

(I used to live in Norwich)

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 05 10:46 am Post subject: green fuel

i have seen the wind turbine in swaffham, there are several there.

i don't find them offensive in any way

they want to build a wind farm about 5 miles from us in parham on the old air field.

there is a great deal of public opinion against it particularly those people closest of course and there are several houses now for sale in the immediate area.

i would imagine there was the same sort of discussion when the big electric pylons cut across the countryside from sizewell.

nobody mentions that now so i would assume that the wind farm if it is built will be the same

but back to the thread.............

do consumers really have a choice to go for the least environmentally damaging?

i have never understood how that works, it still comes down the same wires

would someone please tell me how

yours
never really understood of suffolk

boff

Joined: 23 Mar 2005
Posts: 354
Location: Still alive and kicking

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 05 10:51 am Post subject: Re: green fuel

Nanny wrote:

but back to the thread.............

do consumers really have a choice to go for the least environmentally damaging?

i have never understood how that works, it still comes down the same wires

would someone please tell me how

yours
never really understood of suffolk

They bag it up and post it to you Nanny

. In recycleable envelopes of course.
We were up your way yesterday and I have say those wires out of Sizewell are an eyesore.

If we all HAD to have windpower then it would be the norm.people dont like change thats all.

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 814
Location: Derby

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 05 11:00 am Post subject: Re: green fuel

Nanny wrote:

It is confusing as we are all really using the same stuff unless we're off the grid, but the companies we buy it off buy or create electricity from different means, and that is what we can affect by buying green electricity.

But to add to the confusion even further there has been quite a bit of controversy really, each green energy supplier has a different set of principles. Try this link below, it might help, it lists all the suppliers in your region and you can pick one which mirrors what you want. I personally think choosing a company that is actively involved in increasing the amount of renewable production is the most important thing, more important than simply one that supplies the greatest percentage of electricity from renewables because I want the industry to grow (I'm with ecotricity).
https://www.greenelectricity.org/index.html

clear as mud ?

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