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EoN supplies about 15% of the UK's electricity. Their current advertisement says they supply 100% renewables. But right now, and for the past month, only about 12% of the total UK supply has been from renewables, and many smaller companies make the same claim.How do they do it?
Quote from: alancalverd on 30/04/2021 09:44:32EoN supplies about 15% of the UK's electricity. Their current advertisement says they supply 100% renewables. But right now, and for the past month, only about 12% of the total UK supply has been from renewables, and many smaller companies make the same claim.How do they do it? I think they do it by some sort of offsetting with low carbon emission areas , but would need to check details.Potentially dubious practice in my opinion.
Domestic demand today is about 17 GW and wind is running at 5% of peak capacity - 730 MW shared between all the suppliers! Where is EoN getting the rest of its 2.6 GW (15% of total supply, remember) of renewable energy from? Not solar, I hope, because the sun is going down.....
So where is my "100% renewable" electricity coming from?
Domestic demand today is about 17 GW and wind is running at 5% of peak capacity
On Tuesday #gas generated 55.9% of British electricity, more than nuclear 17.4%, biomass 6.9%, imports 6.7%, solar 5.6%, coal 3.6%, hydro 2.5%, wind 1.4%, other 0.0%
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my neighbor, on the same grid but with a different billing company, got different colored electrons?
And if you sign up with EoN as your electricity retailer, Eon now "owns" all the electrons in your wires - and charges you for the privilege of using them.
Around here we get a lot of renewable energy from hydroelectric.
So all the stuff I used was renewable, and my neighbor, on the same grid but with a different billing company, got different colored electrons? EoN's boast is that all the mains electrons coming into my house at any time are from renewable sources, even when those sources are not working. That's greenwash and bullshit of the worst kind. Quote Join E.ON where all our customers get 100% renewable electricity as standard, at no extra cost. You can't "make up for it" because EoN don't offer any domestic energy storage capacity.
2) none of my money ends up paying for fossil fuel production
All our customers' homes and businesses get 100% renewable electricity, at no extra cost.
The electricity supplied to homes and businesses comes from the National Grid and DNOs.