Why is it important to consider renewable energy for your home?
Choosing renewable energy sources for your home electricity and heating is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint, make your home more sustainable, and potentially lower your energy costs. The advantages are certainly significant.
What’s more, renewable energy is the energy of the future and switching now can mean you’ll help lead the smart and sustainable energy transition
What is renewable energy?
Renewable energy is power that is generated from natural sources, such as the sun, wind, biomass and water. And these renewable energy sources are naturally replenished.
It’s also often referred to as “green energy” and “clean energy” as the process of generating energy from these renewable sources emits no or hardly any greenhouse gases unlike fossil fuels like coal and oil. Moving away from these traditional sources of energy is a key step in our efforts to combat climate change and help clear the air we breathe.
Best ways to power your home with renewable energy
Solar power
You can use the sun to generate electricity for your home through solar photovoltaic panels that are installed on your roof. These panels take the sun’s rays and convert it into electricity that you can use to warm your home and power your devices.
The panels can generate power during daylight hours and it doesn’t have to be sunny in order for them to work, although they do generate more power on sunnier days. The power generated during daylight hours can be stored in batteries so you still use electricity after the sun goes down.
Renewable electricity supply
A quick and easy way to make your home greener and more sustainable is to choose an energy supply that is backed by renewable sources.
All of the electricity we provide our customers’ homes is backed by 100% renewable sources such as wind, biomass and solar2.
And it’s not just our customers’ homes that benefit from 100% renewable electricity2, eligible small business customers also get renewable electricity when they sign a contract directly with us2.
