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Good Energy defies inflation to hold price freeze

 

 
  
18 February 2011: Good Energy, the UK’s leading 100% renewable electricity supplier, is delighted to announce that it is planning to hold its price freeze for both gas and electricity as part of its commitment to make 100% renewable energy accessible to all consumers.

Good Energy first announced a price freeze in December 2010 and, while all major energy suppliers have recently increased prices by up to 9 percent, Good Energy intends to maintain the price freeze beyond the winter months and, with a good following wind, until the end of 2011.

The 100% renewable electricity supplier hopes this will encourage consumers to switch to greener energy as the price differential with many fossil-fuel-based suppliers is reduced. In addition, Good Energy hopes people will also become more aware of their energy use and do more to become energy efficient, helping to reduce the impact on the environment and bring down the cost of bills further in the process.

Juliet Davenport, CEO of Good Energy, says:

“Renewable energy should be affordable to everyone and this price freeze takes us one step closer to making this a reality. Our decision has been made possible due to significant improvements in our weather forecasting techniques which in turn have improved our ability to trade renewable electricity efficiently.

At Good Energy, we believe it is possible to greatly reduce future energy price risks by turning UK energy 100% renewable by 2050. We’ve developed a pathway that sets out how we can achieve this, involving changes to UK energy at every stage of the process, from grid management to investment, and from R&D to transport.”

So far, more than 26,000 homes and businesses across the UK have switched to Good Energy and the company supports a pioneering community of more than 1700 independent renewable generators that use wind, small-scale hydro, solar power and sustainable biomass to generate homegrown energy.

More information can be found at http://www.goodenergy.co.uk/.

On the spot over Electricity Market Reform

 

 
 
Our CEO Juliet Davenport recounts her experience talking Electricity Market reform with the Commons Climate Committee

Make no mistake; DECC has made clear that it views its Electricity Market Reform (EMR) project as the most important piece of work it is undertaking at the moment. Its implementation might not be as immediate as the Green Deal or as controversial as an early review of feed-in tariffs (FiTs), but its impact will be long lasting and will underpin the UK’s efforts to shift towards a more low-carbon lifestyle.

The House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC) Chairman, Tim Yeo MP, will be keenly aware of this; since being elected as Chair of this important Committee last summer, he’s launched a series of inquiries into those issues making headlines. From grilling the Big Six about their recent price rises, probing the potential for the UK to face its own Deepwater Horizon disaster and cross-examining Chris Huhne about the recent UN Cancun Summit, Yeo and his Committee have focussed their work on those subjects where they can have most impact, both in terms of the public debate and on the Government’s own policy making process.

So the chance for Good Energy to appear before ECCC this week was a great opportunity for us to air our views on what we think the Government has got right and wrong in its EMR plans. We’re pretty proud of our unique position in the UK energy supply market; not just in terms of our commitment to 100% renewable electricity, but also because 1 in 20 of our customers are also renewable energy generators. Roughly 7% of generators registered on FiTs are Good Energy customers, and you’ll be hard pressed to find another supplier that has had the same long-standing commitment to helping those people undertake their own generation projects.

So what of the session itself? Preparing for it was like being back doing finals at university again; hours spent trawling through 140 pages of the deep technical detail of the EMR consultation followed by the prospect of a series of questions on how we felt the proposals would impact on the market if implemented.

Few could deny DECC Ministers’ commitment to the EMR programme – they see it as a once in a generation opportunity to put their stamp on the UK energy market for years to come, leaving a legacy to their time in Whitehall. But there is a real need to ensure that the political impetus that they have put behind the process is carried through. Make no mistake – renewable energy currently exists in spite of the current market, not because of it. The headline intention to take a radical approach to reform needs to go beyond column inches or speeches; it needs to be translated into policy on the ground, by the officials. Radical intentions need to be matched with practical sense. We believe that each of the four strands of reform must be implemented one at a time, starting with a carbon price, so that the impact of each set of changes on each other can be properly assessed.

One of key points we made to the Committee, was that there needs to be more recognition of what will and won’t encourage decentralised generation; during the session Good Energy found a perhaps unlikely ally in the Chief Executive of Drax, Dorothy Thompson, who agreed that whilst the proposed Contract for Difference FiT was greater for larger generators, above 100MW, it would do little to encourage larger numbers of smaller, decentralised generation projects below that level because the transaction and administration costs of participating in the scheme.

Why is this important? Well, as we also said, Good Energy’s reliance on a community of some 1,700 small scale generators means that our source of supply is completely decentralised. That means we have truly mixed portfolio of renewable generators, a characteristic that is absolutely vital to ensure security of supply through domestic renewables, by spreading weather risk as widely as possible. unlike the other major electricity suppliers, we’ve been able to freeze our prices during what has been one of the most bitter winters in years. So if the Government wants a mix of power for low-carbon, renewable sources then it needs to think long and hard about how it encourages this mix through decentralisation.

MPs are understandably concerned how these changes  will impact on their constituents’ bills and Good Energy was more than happy to respond to this. Under any scenario, the next 40 years are likely to see global energy prices increasing. Market reforms will add to short-term costs for consumers, but they will reduce the long-term price risk that would remain if we stick with an energy system that favours fossil fuels and imports over 60% of our energy. One way of helping consumers reduce their costs is through schemes like FiTs or Smart Meters; which can help households decrease energy usage and increase energy efficiency. Demand-side management will be key and our experience shows that having microgeneration at home is a key driver of behavioural change. . The coming weeks will see the Committee take oral evidence from a number of other witnesses, before retiring to make its conclusions, which are likely to be published in the Spring. The chance to feed our views into this important piece of work has been an exciting opportunity to ensure that the government gets practical and pragmatic feedback on policy around the EMR, and to play our part in ensuring that the UK gets the low carbon shift it needs. Whatever the Government’s final proposals, Good Energy plans to be fully engaged, pushing forward the debate on creating a 100% renewable future.

This article is also running on businessgreen.com

More renewables can put an end to rising energy bills

 

 

Most of us will have, at some point or another, experienced that sinking feeling as we realised that we’ve managed to clock up a bill far higher than we would have expected.

But the uSwitch research published last week that 14 million households have, at some time, gone without their heating this winter to keep their energy costs down is a worrying development. Even more concerning, two in ten people have regularly gone without heating. Reducing energy consumption and increasing energy efficiency is important to make a difference to climate change, but clearly this needs to be done in a balanced way that doesn’t put people’s wellbeing at risk.

Whilst rising energy prices have long been a source of irritation to most and of serious concern to some, the research shows that now even more people are being affected by the higher levels that prices are rising to. Our continued reliance on imported fossil fuels means that news like this is likely to become increasingly common. Increasing energy insecurity will mean that price increases are likely to climb to new heights. This is particularly worrying as the latest evidence suggests that climate change and melting Arctic ice means we are likely to experience the freezing winters we’ve seen in recent years far more frequently.

All is not lost, however – far from it, in fact. Whilst the Big Six suppliers, with their reliance on energy from the international energy markets, have been forced to increase their prices in recent months, Good Energy has been able to pass on a winter price freeze to our customers, just at the time when they need it most.

How have we been able to do this? It’s pretty simple -- energy from homegrown, renewable sources is not susceptible to the same kind of price pressures that traditional energy sources are. Because renewable energy is just that, if we can use more of it and less fossil-fuel energy then we are less likely to see the shortages of supply that lead to the price increases that force people to sit freezing in unheated homes in the middle of winter.

A clear win for transparency in the electricity market

By Will Vooght

At Good Energy we aspire to be as transparent as possible. But despite our best efforts, confusion among consumers is still rife in the electricity market – particularly when it comes to green electricity tariffs. What am I getting for my money? Where are the benefits of a green tariff? How green is green?

It’s frustrating for customers, and it’s frustrating for suppliers, which is why earlier this year Good Energy became a signatory to the independent Green Energy Supply Certification Scheme, something we were instrumental in bringing into being.

Getting Green Certification recognized as the key criteria for listing green electricity tariffs on utility broker websites has been an ongoing campaign of ours so we are delighted with a decision announced today by Consumer Focus, Britain’s consumer champion. Electricity tariffs, unless certified green by the Green Energy Supply Certification Scheme, now cannot be listed on broker sites (like uSwitch and Which?) under the category of ‘green’ whatsoever. The result is that consumers will be provided with a clear and simple choice of the genuinely green tariffs on offer, as well as know that they all meet a minimum requirement.

But best of all, in addition to requiring only certified tariffs be included in the green tariff searches, the Code also recommends that green tariffs should be listed according to the Fuel Mix of their supplier. This is an exciting development and a great move in giving consumers confidence that by purchasing a green tariff they are making a real difference, rather than being a victim of ‘greenwash’. We also hope it will help to demonstrate that there is a clear difference between a tariff offered by a 100% renewable supplier – Good Energy – and some of the tariffs offered by suppliers where renewables account for just a small slither of their business and which are really brown energy suppliers at heart.

Before now it was up to individual brokers to decide whether they list green tariffs and if they do, how, as well as deciding what even counts as ‘green’. Consumer Focus’ Confidence Code is in place to ensure that – with the wide range of energy tariffs on offer; whether fixed price, online or, of course, green – energy broker sites conform to minimum standards. Its overall aim is to make choosing a new energy tariff far simpler and ensure that consumers are being provided with the best available information – something we applaud.

The Green Energy Supply Certification Scheme has two main guiding principles which ensure that every unit of green electricity a customer buys is properly certified.

It gets rather technical, but essentially the accreditation under the scheme signifies that the electricity supplied on behalf of the customer is 100% renewable and backed by the appropriate REGOs (Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin) and LECs (Levy Exemption Certificates). This ensures there is no double counting of electricity i.e. it cannot be sold twice to business and domestic customers, and that for every customer there is an additional measurable form of carbon mitigation (“additionality”) to the equivalent of 50kg CO2 per customer per year. For Good Energy this means in the order of 1,600 tonnes per year in addition to providing 100% renewable electricity.

Consumer Focus’ decision is excellent news for Good Energy and green tariffs as a whole. Now, not only can consumers be given full confidence in their choice of green tariff thanks to the Certification Scheme – but have been given the tools to select the right one because of the Confidence Code.

It’s all too rare, but sometimes regulation – and a bit of campaigning – works rather well.

Stay warm with renewables - our gas and electricity prices are frozen for the winter

 
It's not just the weather outside that's freezing - we're freezing our prices for winter too.

Good Energy is delighted to announce we'll be holding both gas and electricity prices steady during winter.

This comes amid the recent controversy over energy pricing sparked by an investigation by energy regulator Ofgem and announcements of price rises by many other energy suppliers.

The move to hold prices down demonstrates our unwavering commitment to ensuring that green energy is more accessible. We hope that reducing the price differential between renewable and many fossil-fuel-based suppliers will encourage more consumers to switch to a green energy tariff, bringing the country closer to a 100% renewable future.

But also integral to the Good Energy mission is reducing energy consumption - we want people to become more aware of their energy use and consequently do more to become energy efficient. This will not only bring down bills but will have a positive impact on the environment, particularly important during the current cold snap that has hit the country as people are likely to be using significantly more energy to heat their homes.

Our Customer Care team have been trained to a new Energy Saving Trust endorsed advice standard, so customers wanting tips about how to stay warm and save energy too should give them a call on 0845 601 1410.

Our CEO Juliet Davenport had this to say about the good news.

"This decision, made possible by the hard work of the Good Energy team to improve the efficiency of our energy trading, is great news for existing and potential customers as it reduces the gap between the cost of renewable and fossil fuel energy, meaning more people than ever will be able to switch to Good Energy.

"Price increases of recent years are in part due to the pressures on supply of traditionally sourced energy. Good Energy believes it is possible to have a 100% renewable energy mix in the UK by 2050. We've developed a pathway that sets out how we can achieve this, involving changes to UK energy at every stage of the process, from grid management to investment, and from R&D to transport."

Good Energy gets Green Stamp

 

By Juliet

We’ve got some great news for our customers – all our electricity now meets the standards set by the new Green Energy Supply Certification Scheme. 

Why is this important? For many years Good Energy campaigned for an accreditation scheme for green electricity. We believe that the reason the green electricity market hasn’t grown as much as, say, the organic movement, is because of a lack of a strong accreditation body. So we were very pleased when the new Green Energy Supply Certification Scheme (www.greenenergyscheme.org) was launched in February this year. We think the additional consumer confidence the scheme brings will really help grow the market for renewables in the UK. After a similar scheme was launched in Australia, the renewable electricity market grew by 25 percent in a year.

We are still the UK’s only electricity supplier whose fuel mix is 100% renewable – and now we’re also the only supplier who can guarantee that all our electricity fulfils the criteria of the certification. We know it’s important that customers can trust that what we say is what we do. 

The Green Energy Scheme has two main guiding principles: 

• That the electricity supplied on behalf of the customer be 100% renewable and 100% backed by the appropriate  REGOs (Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin) and LECs (Levy Exemption Certificates), to ensure there is no double counting of electricity sold to customers;  
  
• That for every customer there must be an additional measurable carbon mitigation above and beyond the supply of 100% renewable electricity set at  50kg per customer per year – for Good Energy this means in the order of 1600 tonnes per year in addition to providing 100% renewable electricity  
  

Under the new 2010 Green Certification scheme Good Energy will achieve our additionality by supporting the development of the UK’s renewable heat market, a market that has been long forgotten by our policy-makers in the UK. We conducted extensive research on how we could best support renewable heat, and we concluded that investing in community renewable heat schemes would offer the greatest benefits all round.

The way it will work is as follows:  Good Energy will invest in renewable heat projects which benefit communities. Those communities then have an obligation to maintain and manage that system, and adhere to Good Energy’s Sustainable Procurement Policy.  When the renewable heat incentive is introduced by Government in 2011 these sites will receive a payment.  Good Energy will set up an independent trust to manage this income and further invest in other renewable heat projects, so producing an ongoing stream of investment into UK renewable heat. Now that is sustainable!

Projects we’re looking at include installing biomass boilers to replace oil heating in a community-owned public swimming pool near Bristol and a primary school near Bath. We’re really excited about moving into renewable heat as the UK potential is huge. Investing in renewable heat projects will help the UK take control of the energy we produce and use it more intelligently, reducing waste and reducing emissions, producing and delivering energy closer to people’s homes and businesses. 

So now, not only will our customers be buying 100% renewable electricity – guaranteed and certified, but they will also be helping to grow renewable heat in the UK as well.  It’s another example of Good Energy’s innovative approach driving change through the energy industry.

Green Supply Certification explained

Listen to Solitaire Townsend, chair of the Green Energy Supply Certification Scheme’s expert panel, explaining how it all works on BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours Programme.

Listen now...

New scheme reassures consumers their electricity is genuinely green

By Juliet

Today, a new Green Energy Supply Certification scheme for electricity is being launched – to give consumers assurance that a certified green tariff has a genuine environmental benefit. The scheme is based on energy regulator Ofgem’s Green Supply Guidelines launched last year. And Good Energy is one of the first suppliers to have a tariff certified under the scheme.

This is great news – we’ve been campaigning for greater transparency for green tariffs for many years. The new certification scheme is designed to encourage greater uptake of green tariffs from consumers by offering greater clarity and clearing up confusion over domestic green electricity supply. Under the guidelines, suppliers will only be able to market their products as green if they are accredited by an independent panel as having met certain environmental criteria. Specifically, a green tariff must consist of:

• 100% renewable electricity, backed by the appropriate certification of REGOs and LECs (certificates denoting origin)
• Additional measures to mitigate a minimum of 50kg of carbon per customer per year, or 1 tonne if done using Carbon Emissions Reduction Certificates
• Accompanying standardised information including a detailed break-down of the supplier’s fuel mix

Our new tariff is ‘Green & Gold’ -- it mirrors our original 100% renewable electricity tariff while incorporating additional carbon abatement in the form of Gold Standard Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs).

Greater clarity for green electricity is something we’ve campaigned on for many years. We‘re delighted that the new guidelines support the model of 100% renewable electricity that we’ve always operated and hope that others will be encouraged to follow suit. Under the leadership of the independent panel, we believe that these guidelines will significantly boost demand for renewables in the UK.

Consumers want to know that they are making a genuine difference to climate change and thanks to the green energy scheme announced today they can now be assured of it. The existence of these guidelines should put an end to greenwash in the electricity market and sounds the death knell to the dubious double-counting practices of ‘carbon cowboys’ once and for all.

Gold Standard Certified Emissions Reductions represent quantifiable emissions reductions generated by projects that meet best practice sustainability standards – for example investing in wind power in India and energy efficiency in the UK.

We’re also working to get our standard 100% renewable tariff certified – which will take a little longer. So if you are an existing customer you don’t need to rush to switch to the new tariff. But please tell your friends about it!

Solitaire Townsend, chair of the certification panel, said: “We are happy to be able to certify this green tariff.  Good Energy led the working group for the scheme, and we are grateful for their commitment to transparency and best practice in the market”

If you would like to sign up to Green and Gold then click here.

To learn more, click here.

Re-news

EDF “secret” nuclear talks
The Times is reporting that large energy companies have been in secret talks with the government about financing the next generation of nuclear power plants in the UK. They are proposing that public funding goes towards building these new power stations, contrary to former assurances.

The nuclear lobby has spent a lot of time and money convincing the government that nuclear power is the low-carbon, low-cost energy solution. And it’s worked – the latest energy white paper re-affirms the commitment to nuclear power, giving the go ahead for private companies to start building new reactors to replace those dying off in the UK. The plan was that private companies would finance the construction of these new plants and would be able to sell energy from them at affordable rates.

Meanwhile us greenies have been pulling our hair out knowing that the environmental and economic pro-nuclear arguments are highly flawed. The last generation of nuclear power plants in the UK were hugely expensive, highly polluting, and under delivering.

As for the next generation, a new generator being built in Finland is hardly an inspiring model of good practice. The setbacks and soaring costs of this project must have a few members of the UK parliament gritting their teeth and crossing their fingers. Olkiluoto 3 has been beset with safety concerns, raging arguments between the French constructors and Finnish government, and is €2 billion over budget. The reactor was originally due to be generating this year, but there are doubts it’ll even make its new deadline of 2012.

Speaking to the Telegraph, independent nuclear consultant John Large, predicted that new nuclear power stations would cost households “significantly more” than the £15 renewable subsidies.

EDF now wants the government to foot at least part of the bill – knowing it can’t afford to deliver new nuclear for the original budget. And it has Ed Miliband over a barrel. With an energy crisis in the UK looming EDF is effectively saying “You want the lights on, you pay for it.”

To rub salt in the wound, EDF is owned by the French Government. It’s asking British taxpayers to fund French profits. Time to re-think the nuclear argument?

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/utilities/article6797809.ece

Oil lobby to fund anti-climate change campaign
More bad energy news from the other side – another leak. The Guardian reports that the president of the American Petroleum Institute (API) has been out-ed for planning anti climate change demonstrations in an attempt to thwart President Obama’s Climate Bill, in an email obtained by Greenpeace.

The API strategy is to orchestrate demonstrations to generate press coverage and create the perception of a grass roots campaign against the Bill, which threatens the “business as usual” mentality of most oil companies. They will fund the events and have recruited an events planner and PR firm so that the API members just need to turn up.

Read more about this plan here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/14/us-lobbying

To any of our US readers – don’t fall for these spin doctored events!

Increase in UK coal production undermines our climate rhetoric
After a decade of decline in open-cast coal mining here in Britain, coal production has risen by 10% over the last year, as new mines get the green light. Coal imports have also increased by 13% in the first three months of 2009 compared with 2008.

The result is an extra 16 million tonnes of coal being produced since 2007, and all indications point to a further 15 million tonnes in coming months.

As the Guardian rightly points out, the increase in coal production surely contravenes the UK government’s transition to a low carbon economy? All the talk of renewable energy targets and green initiatives are completely undone by this huge increase in production of the most carbon-intensive fuel. It should simply be left in the ground.

More here.

So, to the Good news…

Single malt electricity
Mmmmmm, green whisky. Helius Energy has teamed up with whisky makers The Combination of Rothes Distillers (CoRD) to build an innovative renewable energy project. Whisky production by-products are being used to power a 7.2MWe Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant  in Speyside that will drastically cut the carbon footprint of the fine drink. Not only that, they will be turning the liquid co-product of whisky production into a concentrated organic fertiliser and animal feed for use by local farmers.

Perhaps it doesn’t give you a hangover either?

http://www.heliusenergy.com/media/170809.php

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Taking the wind out of ROC Retirement – an open letter to Good Energy customers

1. We felt we should update our website readers and clarify matters regarding our ROC retirement policy.  Over the past seven years Good Energy has strived to be open and transparent about what we do, and seek independent verification where necessary. We have operated the same system over ROC retirement for the past seven years and not received any customer complaints.

2. When we entered the market in 1999, we were one of the first companies to receive the Energy Saving Trust accreditation “Future Energy” for our electricity product.  At that time it provided suppliers with an audit procedure to check that they were matching what they sold with purchases from renewable generators.  However, in 2002 the DTI decided that it no longer wanted to fund this and it was replaced by OFGEM’s Green Supplier’s Guidelines published in 2002. This indicated that the retirement of ROCs beyond compliance limits could be counted as additionality. 

3. As a result of the demise of Future Energy, there was no longer any mechanism to validate the claims of suppliers under these guidelines. Good Energy decided we would use an independent verifier to check our claims in order to replace the audit procedure implemented under Future Energy.

4. At the same time OFGEM implemented a system to allow electricity suppliers to retire ROCs.  However, this scheme did not give the right for ‘additional’ retired ROCs to claim rebates from the Renewable Obligation ‘buyout’ fund so that ROCs used for compliance and ROCs used for additionality were not financially equivalent. 

5. The process is as follows: A supplier buys one ROC from a generator at around £50. It submits this ROC for compliance and subsequently receives approximately £12.81 rebate from the Government buyout fund.  Thus, the cost of the ROC to the electricity supplier is £37.19 (for 2009).

6. For an additional retired ROC a supplier submits one ROC which it purchased from a generator at £50 per ROC.  It subsequently receives nothing from the buyout fund. Therefore the cost of providing additional ROCs is £50 to the supplier. This shows that it is far more expensive to provide additionality than compliance.  
 
7. Therefore it seemed to us that there was a conflict between the OFGEM guidelines for green suppliers, where the two types of ROCs were assumed to have the same value, and actual practice, where they clearly do not.  As a result, Good Energy started its own scheme to retire additional ROCs beyond our compliance limits to the ‘equivalent economic value’ to us, the supplier - this is based on the average price we paid to generators for their ROCs.

8. We originally set ourselves a target of retiring ROCs to the equivalent economic value of 5% above our compliance levels. Doing this at £50 per ROC rather than £37.19 means we retire fewer than an actual additional 5%, but to an equivalent economic value.

9. In addition, we also pay our HomeGen customers an equivalent of three ROCs per unit produced. This we also count towards our “retired” ROCs, acting as a support mechanism to incentivise home generation. When this was originally introduced by Good Energy, there was no support for micro-generation anywhere in the country, and our initiative still goes above and beyond recent incentives introduced by government. 

10. The Government buyout fund varies each year, as does the amount we pay our micro-generators. Therefore, the calculation to work out how many ROCs we should retire is complex. We also do this a year in arrears, because of the timetable set out by the ROC legislation.  As a result, we decided it would be best to employ an independent firm, Smith & Williamson, to verify the figures and publish a statement confirming our approach and the figures.   We publish this report every year to verify this and you can find it on our website. We’ve been doing this since 2002.

11. We believe that for any market mechanism to work effectively, the price signals need to be set at an appropriate level. By retiring beyond our compliance limits and supporting smaller generators we hope to do our bit to ensure this is the case.

12. In addition to ROC retirement we also believe that one unit of generation should only be sold once. This is why we also retire LECs (Levy Exemption Certificates) against all of our domestic customer and charity customer supplies.  If sold separately from the REGO then the same unit of generation is effectively being sold twice. Good Energy believes this further distorts the market and it is a practice we feel should be prevented. However there are still many “green” tariff providers who continue to double sell their electricity.

13. Going forward, we hope that the work OFGEM is now undertaking for green tariff guidelines will provide greater clarity and transparency to the market and stop the practice of double-selling, as LECs will have to be retired for all domestic green tariffs. We are planning to update our offerings and consider an alternative to retiring ROCs.  However, until this is complete we will continue to follow the original guidelines from 2002.
 
14. I hope this answers any queries any of our customers may have. Good Energy’s customers have always been attracted first and foremost by our 100% renewable offering. Any confusion demonstrates that what the green electricity market needs more than anything else is independent accreditation. We believe that the OFGEM green guidelines and accreditation scheme should provide some long awaited clarity to this market and we look forward to demonstrating why Good Energy and our customers are making such a difference to the UK renewable energy market. 

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact me or the Good Energy team.

Kind regards,

Juliet Davenport
Chief Executive