Our Fuel Mix
Our customers' total electricity demand comes from two sources: half is generated from our own UK gas and coal fire power stations; the remainder is purchased from other power generators via the wholesale market. Our power stations are among the cleanest and most efficient of their kind in the UK and we intend to keep them that way.
The information in the table below is EDF Energy's fuel mix for the period April 2008 to March 2009 and is consistent across all of EDF Energy's Supply licenses^.
∞ Source: Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
^ The above table does not include fuel mix information for any supply licence held by British Energy Direct Limited. This information will be reported separately by British Energy Direct Limited.
Green Fund
Customers on our Green Tariff pay a small premium on their electricity bills. We match their contributions and use this to help support renewable energy projects across the UK.
The money raised through our Green Tariff is placed in the Green Fund and used to award grants to community, non-profit, charitable and educational organisations across the UK.
The Green Fund awards grants to organisations who apply for funds to help cover the cost of renewable energy technology that can be used to produce green energy from the sun, wind, water, wood and other renewable sources.
Green Fund - Additionality
As part of the Green Energy Certification scheme, tariffs must deliver an environmental benefit which results in abating a minimum level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions.
For Green Tariff, this has been set by the Panel at 50 kg CO2e per customer, per year (for 2010).
The Green Tariff helps to fund the installation of small-scale renewable energy technologies for community and non-profit organisations across the UK. As these technologies generate energy from natural resources, they can help reduce CO2 emissions.
The projects funded through the Green Fund demonstrate that the Green Tariff meets the CO2e abatement levels required by the Green Energy Certification scheme. This is achieved by calculating how much CO2 each project saves by avoided consumption of energy from the National Grid, based on the estimated generation of the technology.
Energy consumed from the grid has an average CO2 value associated with it. Therefore by displacing this energy through on-site renewable generation, CO2e savings can be made.