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The New Green Jack - what we stand for

New Green Jack - What we stand for, a green Britain!

Our Fuel Mix

The UK’s biggest growth in renewables

Each year our green % goes up as we build more and our brown % goes down as we buy less of that. In just four years we have increased the proportion of wind generated electricity in our mix to over 50% using wind energy we built ourselves.

We’re set for a 16% increase in our fuel mix this year, but our ultimate goal is 100% new green electricity sourced from our own turbines.

All UK suppliers are set a target to increase the amount of renewable they supply by just over 1% a year. Most fail to achieve this lowly target, even though they claim green kudos in their marketing. We have grown our renewable by more than thirteen times the national target rate.

Fuel mix history in detail

This is our fuel mix for the year that ended in April last year – so it’s historical not current, and it’s published here under the European and UK Fuel Mix Disclosure regulations.

Fuel Supply Ecotricity National
Average
Apr 05 - Mar 06 Apr 06 - Mar 07 Apr 07 - Mar 08 (Projected)
Apr 08 - Mar 09
UK average (07/08)
Natural Gas 24.7% 22.8% 24.1% 21.4% 43.5%
Coal 20.2% 23.8% 18.3% 16.2% 33%
Nuclear 30.3% 25.9% 18% 7.9% 16.1%
Other 4.5% 3.3% 2.2% 0.9% 1.9%
All Brown 79.7% 75.8% 62.6% 46.4% 94.5%
Renewable 20.2% 24.1% 37.4% 53.6% 5.5%

Enviromental Impact
CO² emissions* 292 316 266.7 230.1 468.4
Radioactive waste** 0.00363 0.00285 0.00161 0.00071 0.00144

*CO2 emissions are in g/kWh; ** Radioactive waste relates to high level waste in g/kWh.
Renewable supply figures include an estimated 10.9% reduction for transmission and distribution losses.

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Our progress reports

Our reports are in PDF format, and require Adobe Acrobat.


Progress Report 2008/09.

Progress Report 2007/08.

Progress Report 2006/07.