Joe looks after the relationships with our Partners and Affiliates. 

Can you explain a little bit about your role at Good Energy?
My role at Good Energy is to build relationships with organisations that share our values and are helping to promote renewable energy in the UK.

Recommendations from advocates are critical to recruiting supporters to our mission of changing UK energy, so I provide our partners with the materials and information about our products and services and about our mission to help them inspire and engage their audience to connect to Good Energy.

We have partners of all shapes and sizes and in many different industry sectors and I provide them with the practical materials they might require, like leaflets for events or banners for their websites, as well as ensuring that all of the relevant departments within Good Energy know what’s going on!

A large part of my work at the moment is getting out the materials that support our Homegrown campaign – with over 400 partners this is sometimes quite tricky but I love the challenge and the variety of partners I deal with.

Why do you support Good Energy’s vision?
For me it’s about my young family and their future. I don’t really want a future for them dependent on power sources that mostly involve digging the ground up and burning it in processes that release environmentally damaging gases into the atmosphere. Fossil fuels account for many of our planet’s problems and I think it’s time we did something about it.

Like me, Good Energy sees an energy landscape where electricity is produced locally, is valued more and used less and of course is clean and green. Electricity production accounts for about a third of the average household carbon footprint, therefore switching to 100% supply and generating your own is maybe the most important thing people can do to make a difference to climate change.

How do you personally contribute to achieving a greener environment?
At home I am have become somewhat obsessive about reducing my household consumption (of Good Energy of course!). I’d encourage everyone to get an energy monitor and become similarly obsessed because it really works – my bills are more than 10% lower than they used to be!

To get to work I often cycle the 10 miles between Malmesbury and Chippenham – it’s not just a good way to get fit or blow away the cobwebs, but a great way of seeing the wonderful countryside and wildlife we have in Wiltshire. When I can’t, or don’t want to cycle I take the bus or liftshare wherever possible and I’ve been involved in introducing Good Energy to a few partner schemes like WSP’s PACT and Sustrans’ Change Your World – both action oriented initiatives to reduce our carbon emissions.

Really, it’s about actually getting on and making a habit of the small changes – one less car journey, one less light left on, one shopping basket with more local, organic produce. Very soon all the small changes make larger ones.