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Your energy choices
Ecotricity offer two energy tariffs – New Energy and New Energy Plus
With both of our energy tariffs you have the satisfaction of knowing that the green energy we generate was built because of you. You can sign up online for both of these tariffs.
| New Energy
All the Green energy in this tariff comes from our own wind turbines, this year it’s just over 30% and rising currently at almost 10% per year. The balance is ’Brown’ electricity bought in the market and that reduces each year as the green increases. But the key part is this - for every £ our customers spend with us through their electricity bills we spend another £ building new sources of Green energy. And we price match each regional supplier so our New Energy has no premium attached to it our customers get what we call ’Green for the price of Brown’.
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| No wonder this is considered by people like the Soil Association, WWF and Oxfam to be the best green tariff in the UK, bar none. |
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| New Energy Plus
This is for those that understand the need to build new sources to actually impact climate change but who want a 100% tariff in the mean time. It’s New Energy (30% Green from our turbines this year and rising fast), topped up with green electricity from existing renewable sources (instead of Brown) making this a 100% Green tariff. You get the same total commitment to build we spend one £ for every one £ our customers spend with us but it’s 100% green now. It’s a mixture of Old and New green energy in fact (New Energy Plus Old). It isn’t any better than New Energy, but some people just want 100%, so we offer it. |
The existing (Old) green energy we top up with is a scarce resource though, so there’s a small premium of 0.5p per unit, which works out at about £20 a year for a typical household - over and above the price of Brown electricity from each regional supplier.
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