We take the solar, the wind and a little bit of natural decomposition, and we flip it into energy.
The technology of photo voltaic and wind energy don’t launch any CO2 (the greenhouse gasoline accountable for international warming), and the quantity of CO2 launched by burning biogas is identical as that launched throughout naturally occurring natural decomposition.
What’s the choice?
The choice to renewable power is getting energy from burning fossil fuels, which is how the world has been powered because the days of the Industrial Revolution. Each coal and oil are simply that: fossils – the traditional stays of vegetation, algae and animals, which have been put underneath immense warmth and stress. These fossil fuels maintain an enormous quantity of trapped carbon, which is launched after they’re burned – and that improve in CO2 means a hotter planet and rising sea ranges.
How does the renewable power provide chain work?
Renewable power is generated, added to the nationwide grid, blended with power from different sources, and eventually piped out to homes and companies within the UK.
At Octopus Vitality, all of our tariffs are 100% renewable electrical energy – which implies we are going to match each unit of electrical energy you employ with a renewable certificates for a similar quantity.
This matching is finished by Ofgem’s REGO (Renewable Vitality Assure of Origin) scheme – the system utilized by suppliers throughout the U.Ok. to confirm their claims of the quantity of renewable power provided.
Supporting renewable power technology
Alongside our REGO certificates, we contract immediately with renewable producers, akin to photo voltaic farms or anaerobic digestion vegetation, on Energy Buy Agreements, or PPAs.
Lastly, we’re part of the Octopus Group – the UK’s largest investor in photo voltaic technology, with over £2 billion invested to this point. That funding alone generates sufficient energy to produce a metropolis the dimensions of Manchester.
In addition to wind and natural waste technology, Octopus Group invests in ‘sensible know-how’ to assist construct a brand new method of supplying and producing power across the UK. One which shall be based mostly on a extra clear, push-and-pull community of tomorrow, serving to to offer some a lot wanted flexibility within the power trade.