Nov 19 2008
Good Energy - the UK’s leading supplier of electricity from 100% renewable sources - is launching a trial of domestic gas supply tariffs.
Pioneering Renewable Heat Incentive Offered to Reduce Gas Dependence
The launch comes after research showed that the majority of Good Energy’s electricity customers would also prefer to buy their gas from Good Energy rather than other suppliers.
In conjunction with the gas offering, Good Energy will be launching a pioneering Renewable Heat
Incentive - available to all new gas customers - to reward those generating their own heat from
renewable sources and thereby reducing their use of both gas and electricity.
Juliet Davenport, founder and CEO of Good Energy said: “We have tested our gas systems with a small
existing customer base and are now trialling a gas tariff on broker sites before we make a full launch to
existing and new customers in 2009.
After eight years passionately promoting 100% renewable energy, we couldn’t just launch a standard gas
product. We had to find a way to make it support our mission, but obviously we wanted to respond to our
customer feedback.
We realised that there was a clear benefit to launching gas - we would attract more customers to the
100% electricity tariff and therefore encourage growth of renewable generation around the UK.
So, working with our campaign partners, we have decided that the most practical and effective option is to
use revenues from the gas business to support and reward those customers who are generating their
own heat from renewable sources and thereby reducing their use of gas and electricity.
Renewable heat sounds easy, but no-one’s done it yet in the UK. This is where Good Energy can make a
big difference. We are going to start with solar thermal and simultaneously launch a research project to
expand the scheme and create a benchmark for the industry and for Government. Watch this space!”
As a gas supplier ‘inside’ the industry, Good Energy will be well positioned to campaign actively for
renewable heat in the UK and for incentives to reduce gas usage.
Initially the initiative will cover solar-thermal - the most popular method of renewable heat generation in
the UK and the easiest to manage. Good Energy will simultaneously fund practical research to improve
and expand the scheme to include heat pumps, biomass and micro-CHP.
By running an initiative where customers using renewable heat are rewarded, Good Energy will show
leadership to the Government and industry on how to meet renewable heat targets.
The initiative is open both to households who already have solar thermal installed and those buying and
installing new systems.
For more details on our gas and heat product click here
To sign up to electricity and gas, email your contact details to gas@goodenergy.co.uk and we will give you a call.
And if you are generating hot water from solar panels, or thinking about it, then drop us an email on heat@goodenergy.co.uk
