Juice

A question about : Juice

Hi all

My first post. I was going to change to NPower Juice 'cos they are about the "greenest" I could find and Greenpeace reccommends them. I'll wait now until Oct when all companies put up their bills etc. but thought I'd mention it.

Also, if more people do sign up to greener options then I imagine they wil become cheaper for all? So even if they are not the cheapest it might still be a good idea to change to them.

Scottish Power is the cheapest for me in S Wales on teh quotes etc. but NPower Juice is still quite good and way cheaper than my B Gas and Swalec at moment.

Cheers

Best answers:

• [move]hmmm, not sure whether to laugh or cry[/move]
  Npowers Juice is a very green energy, BUT all they are selling to you is their obiligated amount of green energy but at a higher price.
  You don't get any special energy as the elec is delivered by your local RED (Regional Elec Distributor).
  Have u looked at the Body shops green energy package? They are more supportive and adventorous regarding really green energy, as they have no commitment that they must meet (set by OFGEM) they choose to do it or green reasons.
  Pak
• Cheers, I will shop around...
• Hi,
  Officially speaking Good Energy are the cleanest - www.good-energy.co.uk - 100% of the electricity the company contributes to the national grid is from renewables (wind/hydro/solar). They're recommended by Friends of the Earth.
  The company isn't part of a bigger less environmentally friendly company either.
  I doubt they're the cheapest electricity company, but I'm prepared to pay more to support demand for renewable electricity.
  Rich
• Cheers, will look. I'm quite happy to pay more too and I'm unemployed and can't really afford it.
• ???
  Npower do not produce any green energy at all. instead they purchase it from their sister company National Wind Power (or something like that), so i theory, they are much less greener than companies such as powergen, who produce their own green energy.
• Loon, what r u on about now?
  Npower, like all power companies do produce carbon neutral energy. There is a statute that states they must all produce 10% by 2010, and 20% by 2020.
  I think you are confusing things, many companies set up sister companies to profit from tax loopholes, insolvancy of parts etc.
  Take a look at companies house, and look up NTL.
  Pak
• I would be very careful before switching to NPower I used Uswitch and decided way back in August to switch to Scottish Power, Npower stopped me,saying I owed them Ј7.27p, I sent a cheque by return of post and saw this cashed on my bank Statement, Scottish Power wrote recently and still claimed that NPower refused to allow the switch over, I then receievd a bill for Electricity only for Ј96 in September I wrote asking WHY?, did not receive a reply, but received a threatening letter from Northern Tracing & Collection Services LTd.- Pre-Court Division :'(, so beware-is there anyone to whom I can complain please?[glow=red,2,300][/glow]
• Hi y'all
  I like the idea of supporting renewable energy and am considering N Power Juice (wind) or Scottish Power H2O (hydro) but what concerns me is although they promise to match my electricity usage with 'green' electricity how can you know that this happens, and also is it just a scam to get 'greenies' to pay extra for something that the electricity suppliers would do anyway e.g. do they already have commitments to purchasing or producing a certain amount of renewable energy? ???
• See here for info on the greenest electricity providers:
  https://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/clima..._green_energy/
  I use Good-Energy and have been happy with them (and if you want a free bottle of organic wine msg me or another customer and get them to recommend you, you both end up with a free bottle)
• I used to work for nPower and they have placed wind farms in certain areas - Juice should be the same price as their normal energy if you are an nPower Northern customer.
  For any other branch of nPower though, I think that policy differs.
  Stupid isn't it since they don't even make clear which part of the company you are a customer of :-p
• to me its just a gimmick. the electricity you get is the same and whether or not you go with green companies it isnt going to influence what type of turbine they build in the future...it all comes down to the price of fuel, the price of plant, running costs and the speed it can be put up. a few customers buying electricity at a slightly higher cost isnt going to sway them too much.
  The main factor at the moment is the IPC (integrated pollution control) which tells the companies how much rubbish they can throw into the land sea and air (ie chlorine, NOx, chemicals etc) the lower the values the more efficient ways the company has to find to not breach. If you look at the carbon trading agreement where companies are given so many carbon units and if they want to burn more they will have to buy them from other companies. So if you have a large coal station its going to use a lot of units up..but if you have wind farms which dont use carbon up the units from the farm can be transferred to the coal site thus allowing it to burn more coal.
• I am NPower juice customer, and I have to agree to a certain a mount of sceptisism. In the welcome pack, they advised us that they do not supply us green energy, but commit to buying the amount of energy supplied to our home from carbon neutral sources.
  We signed up, knowing full well that there are cheaper providers out there, but we are doing the right thing. What I didn't expect was a price rise in my electricity in the last month (gas fair enough!).
  I understand that the cost of fuel has gone up recently, but when did the price of wind go up?
  mmmm - something not right here.
  So plenty of investigations into mini turbines and solar panels for me - I'm not going to pay NPower an inflated price for electricity (they do supply their non-green power cheaper in some cases) for them to meet their targets when I can generate my own power.
• I am in the process of switching from Southern Electric - standard rate to Scottish Hydro ( see uswitch for details) and reckon I will save Ј50 a year and I also help the environment - so can't complain (yet) - let you know if I get into any from the transfer !