We investigate, score and rank the ethical and environmental record of 18 electricity and gas suppliers.
We look at the fuels that generate a supplier's electricity, green tariffs, renewable generation, biogas, greenwashing, energy prices and fuel poverty, community energy, and give our recommended buys.
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Ethical Consumer
Join thousands of others and become an ethical consumer today.
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We are an independent, not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder co-operative with open membership.
At the heart of the ethical consumer movement, since 1989.
We are an independent, not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder co-operative with open membership, based in Manchester.
We provide all the tools and resources you need to make choices at the checkout simple, informed and effective.
Includes guides to: Electricity & Gas Suppliers, Heat Pumps, Boilers, Solar PV Panels
The latest magazine includes guides rating:
- Electricity & gas suppliers
- Heat Pumps
- Boilers
- Solar Panels
Plus:
- score tables rating and comparing the brands
- Best Buy recommendations
- which are the best green tariffs?
- which 100% renewable energy supplier is really producing or buying renewable electricity?
- how to support community renewable energy
- who's supporting vulnerable customers in the cost of living crisis?
- the most ethical heat pumps brands
- boilers, energy-saving and ethics
- is there such a thing as an ethical solar panel?
- the campaigns for reducing home heating emissions
Feature article on:
- carbon offsets - should we be doing this and, if so, which are the best?
Issue 201 (March/April 2023) now in print and online.
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- Josie Wexler looks at carbon offsetting, the best way to do it, and whether we should be doing it at all.Read more
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