>Energia has around 250,000 domestic and business customers and claims to be the largest supplier of 100pc green electricity in Ireland.
>SSE Airtricity has around 750,000 customers on the island and it routinely calls itself Ireland’s largest provider of 100pc green energy.
>Smaller companies such as Pinergy claim to provide domestic customers with 100pc renewable electricity, and Flogas makes similar claims to its business customers. Electric Ireland and Bord Gáis offer specific “100pc renewable” packages to customers.
Anyone who was paying more for this deserves what they got
Great news, I was pondering how all these 100% green suppliers were the first to jack up the prices and blame it on the war in Ukraine when they didn’t use the dirty oil and gas at all at all..
How about charging different rates for green and non-green, with green being substantially lower. They can claim however green they want to be but must charge customers less accordingly
*Sigh*
Every few months this pops up, after some politician discovers Moneypoint exists, and there’s effectively the same damn article about it, at least this one states this **IS BECAUSE IT’S EU LAW**:
“The ASAI asked the CRU for its opinion and noted that the CRU referred to the EU Renewable Energy Directive and Irish legislation which allowed use of the GO scheme.”
Brilliant. False advertising being nipped in the bud. Middle men with no power sources (wind solar thermal hydro) making huge amounts of profit by being……middle men and driving the cost up.
That explains why these companies jacked up their prices like all the others. I admit I was taken in – I knew it wasn’t 100% but with recent price rises I suspected it wasn’t even 10%.
Green =/= renewable. Please be aware of that. “Green” is a made up label for energy providers.
I’m with Bord Gais on a “100% Green” plan.
The breakdown on my bill is: 11% Coal, 41% natural gas, 41% renewable, 4% Oil, 3% other. They count natural gas as “Green”.
Is there any legal recourse for customers who were hoodwinked?
Left wing politicians, notably Paul Murphy, were pointing out that this was misleading about a year ago, and were being attacked and scolded as idiots who didn’t understand the electricity market.
Ahh the independent..ffs lads stop reading that shite..anti Irish newspaper too in england
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>Energia has around 250,000 domestic and business customers and claims to be the largest supplier of 100pc green electricity in Ireland.
>SSE Airtricity has around 750,000 customers on the island and it routinely calls itself Ireland’s largest provider of 100pc green energy.
>Smaller companies such as Pinergy claim to provide domestic customers with 100pc renewable electricity, and Flogas makes similar claims to its business customers. Electric Ireland and Bord Gáis offer specific “100pc renewable” packages to customers.
Anyone who was paying more for this deserves what they got
Great news, I was pondering how all these 100% green suppliers were the first to jack up the prices and blame it on the war in Ukraine when they didn’t use the dirty oil and gas at all at all..
How about charging different rates for green and non-green, with green being substantially lower. They can claim however green they want to be but must charge customers less accordingly
*Sigh*
Every few months this pops up, after some politician discovers Moneypoint exists, and there’s effectively the same damn article about it, at least this one states this **IS BECAUSE IT’S EU LAW**:
“The ASAI asked the CRU for its opinion and noted that the CRU referred to the EU Renewable Energy Directive and Irish legislation which allowed use of the GO scheme.”
Brilliant. False advertising being nipped in the bud. Middle men with no power sources (wind solar thermal hydro) making huge amounts of profit by being……middle men and driving the cost up.
That explains why these companies jacked up their prices like all the others. I admit I was taken in – I knew it wasn’t 100% but with recent price rises I suspected it wasn’t even 10%.
Green =/= renewable. Please be aware of that. “Green” is a made up label for energy providers.
I’m with Bord Gais on a “100% Green” plan.
The breakdown on my bill is: 11% Coal, 41% natural gas, 41% renewable, 4% Oil, 3% other. They count natural gas as “Green”.
Is there any legal recourse for customers who were hoodwinked?
Left wing politicians, notably Paul Murphy, were pointing out that this was misleading about a year ago, and were being attacked and scolded as idiots who didn’t understand the electricity market.
Ahh the independent..ffs lads stop reading that shite..anti Irish newspaper too in england