How do the suppliers stack up?
- ecotricity
- Spending over £450 per customer building new wind turbines in 2007, ecotricity actually invested more per customer than all the other suppliers put together...
- Powergen
- After three years of claiming that they 'invest more per customer in green energy than any other major supplier in the UK' Powergen have finally lived up to their word...
- Centrica
- A quiet year for Centrica with no new offshore developments completed. They did help fund 50% of the UK's largest onshore wind farm in 2007 though...
- npower
- In what was a pretty poor year for new build all round, npower did at least complete three new wind parks and a small hydro project to boot...
- EDF Energy
- Having broken their duck in 2006, we had high hopes that EDF would kick on and put some serious cash into building new generation. They didn't...
- ScottishPower
- Lots in the pipeline, but not a lot actually built yet. Scottish Power are making real strides in new renewables but it's proving to be slow progress...
- Good Energy
- Still spending their customers' money on buying green rather than building it, but they are supporting some of the smaller, community-based renewables out there...
- Green Energy
- Nice to know that they want to invest half their profits into new green, but it's one thing saying it and quite another actually doing it...
- Scottish & Southern Energy
- A quiet year for another of the big boys with no new renewable projects to their name. In fact they seem more interested in increasing their carbon emissions rather than decreasing them...