chrisbmx116-
Yep no1 gives a flying fuck about that. Its all down to running costs.
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I might be driven a bit by consumers chosing to pay more for green electrcity (Good Energy)
I don't think it will be driven at all by consumers choosing cheap green enegy tariffs, as many of these are just feeding off the green energy already on the market due to other reasons.
It will never be driven to a significant degree by consumers as a whole - consumers as a whole are driven by price and convenience.This is both true of electric vehicles and energy supply. We need to either take the choice away for consumers (banning conventional engines / mandating certain energy mix) or by making the green option cheaper to consumers, either by subsidy or by taxing the competitor.
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amey
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Yep, and Ecotricity are similar.
Good Energy Tariffs are significantly higher than even the Big Six - perhaps this is because they are using there own generation, and can't play the market to pick up cheaper green energy from elsewhere - i'm not sure as I'm also not an expert either...
Good Energy and the like may well be more of a force of a good, but to get real change, the whole population needs to be forced to consume more green energy - it's not going to be driven by consumer choice alone.