GREENa Electricity

Truly green power?


I read an interesting blog post a couple of days ago by Mark Brierley, and in it he mentioned that GREENa has a 100% renewable energy electricity plan.

I’ve been looking for one of those since the electricity deregulation was announced, so was very interested to hear about this company.

Personally I would be happy to pay slightly more for renewable energy as I would like to help speed up the transition, and I think the best way to do so is to support companies that are developing renewable sources and stop paying the legacy utilities for coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear. If enough people do this we can make a big difference.

I had a nose around the GREENa website and it looks very interesting.

Unfortunately it seems they only operate in Tokyo Electric/Chubu Electric/Kansai Electric areas, so we don’t have access up here in Tohoku.

I also couldn’t find out whether they have a minimum contract period (2 years). We spoke to a company up here recently that doesn’t do that, and all things being equal, I would prefer not to be subject to extra charges if we have to cancel our contract early.

So I am left with a few questions:

  1. anyone have direct experience with GREENa, good or bad?
  2. do they have  a fixed contract period?
  3. are there any other 100% renewable companies out there?

More questions than answers today, but I hope if you are in one of the areas you’ll consider switching your payments away from the Evil Empire 🙂
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2 Responses

  1. Thanks for pointing out Greena. We’re moving back to Japan and will need to select an electricity provider in August. I sent the link to my wife for her to have a look. I think we’ll need to balance the price vs our attempts to support such companies. I have no idea how much electricity costs per killowatt on average in Japan, and a hard time understanding the numbers on their site. Since the plan figures are in stupid jpeg images instead of text, I can’t use my typical translating tools to know what this is talking about.
    If we’re looking at 19 yen / kwh for the first 120kwh, that’s roughly 50% more than what we pay her in the US (11 cents/kwh), but going that route would depend how much “traditional” electricity costs from the evil empire

  2. Let us know what you find out! I think they’re competitive but haven’t looked at the numbers yet (I’m in Thailand at the moment) 🙂