With Brexit now looming large in front of us you would be forgiven for thinking that some of the detail would have been worked out at this stage. Alas no, with an Electricity Market that operates across the currently open border between NI and ROI the issue of Guarantees of Origin (GOO) is a minor […]
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So you’ve been greenwashed?
Whenever there is a customer trying to make a sustainable and green choice, there will be a company only too willing to splash some green dye across their marketing campaign. Greenwashing is when a company or organization spends more time and money on marketing themselves as environmentally friendly than on minimizing their environmental impact. It […]
What is a PPA?
A Power Purchase Agreement or a PPA for short, is a contract between an energy generator, like a wind or solar farm, and an energy user, like a family or business. This type of agreement has been used within the energy industry for years and years for trading energy between market participants. Increasingly though they […]
How does the renewable energy reach me?
One of the first questions raised when considering buying direct from a renewable generator is how will the energy reach me? Al generators and suppliers have to pass the electricity for their customers over to the System Operator (Eirgrid & SONI) to deliver it to the customer. Entering into a PPA doesn’t change this and […]