Futures Place. Formerly Michael Faraday House. Greenessness.

Possible if it's "off grid".

My last electricity supplier supposedly sold exclusively green energy. The cost of generation did not rise when the price of gas did, so somebody must be making a lot of extra profit. They went bust.

If anybody can tell me how green electrons know which path to follow, I'd like to know.

Fake news.

It also boasts being supplied by 100 per cent renewable energy. How exactly is this achieved?

Exactly the same way we have multiple electricity "suppliers" operating over the same DNO's wiring (and at different prices per kWh). In effect each supplier is responsible for providing the same amount of energy overall as their customers consume - the individual electrons remain aloof to the arrangement of course. If you like all the electricity they pay for has been generated by renewable means.

  - Andy.

Quote; (Ref. Futures Place)

"The building is supplied with 100% renewable energy making our electricity and heating supply zero carbon across all U.K. sites".

Page 4, I.E.T. "Member News," Issue 60, July 2022.

Z.

But where does this renewable energy come from when it is dark and windless? It doesn't of course. What they mean is that they supply an averaged amount when the sun is shining and the wind at hurricane force. This is straight deception, failing to charge properly when supplies of green are low and making hay when there is a good supply. This deception makes the public think there is always "Green" electricity available to them, which is a lie. All that is happening is that actual costs are being put on someone else (just like the subsidies) as some kind of green virtue signalling. This should stop tomorrow, and green supplies be switched off by smart meter when there is insufficient green supply. That would at least make the public realise that the dream doesn't work, and never can.

It's a 100 per cent green washed vitue signal from the IET. We'll done IET advance to the GO!

It is a marketing ploy.  As I understand it, the suppliers plant trees, buy certificates etc. to offset the non-green energy they supply.  Presumably, when the sun is shining and the wind blowing they plant fewer trees.  There is no way that a consumer can be supplied with 100% renewable energy unless they have a personal supply from a wind farm.  But the average consumer doesn't have a clue.

David