Will switching to GreenPower be an expensive exercise for my business?

  • gavin emmanuel

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  • south yarra

I'm thinking of switching my business over to GreenPower, however I've heard that it might cost more. How do I find out how much carbon I'll be saving and how much money it will cost to transfer?

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  • Kate Elborough

  • Carbon Down
  • East Melbourne

Hi Gavin,

Purchasing GreenPower is an additional expense to your normal electricity charges. However, reducing the amount of electricity your business consumes and/or finding a more competitive electricity plan will help to recover the costs - and could even prove a cost saving exercise.

This may seem obvious but our electricity market isn't the easiest to navigate and businesses aren't always sure where to start.

I've linked two solutions that will help you get started...

Regards,

Kate

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  • Mark Falvey

  • The Electric Paintbrush
  • Melbourne

In short, it's more expensive.  But so is aid to starving nations. 

I'm on 100% Green Power, but I'm not sure that's what I'm paying for.

In WA on 20/9/2007 I asked Synergy why the extra money 'NaturalPower' cost was being used to subsidise fossil fuel electricity production.  I received a form-letter back from one Andrew Gaspar which didn't answer my question, but informed me that 'The existing price of NaturalPower does not reflect the cost of generating and supplying accredited renewable energy and is therefore not sustainable'.

Unhappily, it seems that it's very expensive to keep the sun burning and the wind blowing so the extra money I was paying was better spent digging holes and making soot.

I did ask if the long term strategy was to towards ecologically sound power production, but Mr Gaspar hasn't got back to me.  Yet ( ...ahem)

Pay for Green Power but apply pressure, vocally,  to insist upon investment in Green Power.  To do neither is to acquiesce to the prevailing "I'm alright Jack - who cares if my children are choking?" attitude. 

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  • Ivan Correani

  • LED Eco Lighting
  • Prospect

We have a calculator to show how much money you will save if you change your lights to LED.

http://www.ledecolighting.com.au/comparison-calculator.html

Hope it helps.

Added: 22 Mar 2011
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