Renewable energy is getting cheaper, and as prices fall, green energy suppliers are beginning to compete far more effectively with mainstream energy companies. One, Ecotricity, will match the prices of the UK's top six standard energy tariffs, so that making the switch to renewable energy is not only simple, but cheap.

Ecotricity have built up quite a portfolio. They have produced almost 10% of the wind turbines used in the UK, and supply 40,000 customers with efficiency renewable energy tariffs. The company itself began in 1995, making it one of the oldest companies of its kind, and a founding father of the green electricity movement in the UK.

Dedicated to Sustainability with Green Electricity Tariffs

As the green energy sector is a growing sector, Ecotricity have taken measures to make sure that the company and what it provides - clean, green electricity - grows as it garners more customers.

Under their New Energy tariff, Ecotricity spend £1 on research and manufacture for renewable energy, for every £1 that their customers spend in bills. It helps to develop the opportunity for green energy as a national energy source, and it shows customers that they are with a company who are dedicated not just to money, but to their environmental cause. The Ecotricity website states the following:

"All the Green energy in this tariff comes from our own wind turbines, this year it's just over 50% and rising fast. The balance is ‘Brown’ electricity bought in the market ­ and that reduces each year as the green increases. But the key part is this - for every £ our customers spend with us through their electricity bills we spend another £ building new sources of Green energy. And we price match each regional supplier so our New Energy has no premium attached to it ­ our customers get what we call ‘Green for the price of Brown’. No wonder this is considered by people like the Soil Association, WWF and Oxfam to be the best green tariff in the UK, bar none."

Ecotricity, then, has some big-name supporters, and not without merit; their £1 for a £1 scheme helps make sure that green energy develops, and that the renewable sector can sustain itself in years to come; it ensures that, the more customers that come on board, the better the industry can get.

Doing a Little to Help a Lot - Beating Climate Change through Green Energy Tariffs

What companies like Ecotricity do is give the average individual a chance to their bit in lowering carbon emissions and combating climate change. The Ecotricity motto 'Fight Climate Change with Your Electricity Bill!’ is a sound case in point for the ability, quickly and easily through companies like Ecotricity, that everyone has to do something towards greater environmental parity.

For more information on Green Energy Provider Ecotricity, please visit their website.

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