A payment of £50 per household has been made to customers signing up to Good Energy’s special Delabole local tariff which is 20 percent cheaper than the company’s standard electricity tariff. The local tariff was opened up to people living within 2 kilometres of the site in January 2013 and it incorporates a special condition guaranteeing to pay a ‘windfall’ payment if the turbines perform well throughout the year.
“It’s been a windy year at Delabole which is great for us and great for our local tariff customers!” said Good Energy founder and Chief Executive Juliet Davenport OBE. “Our turbines have produced more power than we’d hoped – up 12 percent on the previous year - and it’s nice to be able to share the success with our loyal customers.”
One local resident, Tony Medland, commented that the community is proud to host the wind farm as a means of helping to cut greenhouse gases and stop global warming. He said that the wind farm has been good for Delabole and the local area and that the community shares the benefits. Another resident added that thanks to the tariff he has already saved over £200 on his winter electricity bill.
Delabole is the UK’s first commercial wind farm having been redeveloped by Good Energy in 2010 when the original 10 turbines were replaced by four larger ones thereby more than doubling the capacity from 4MW to 9.2MW. Over 200 local residents have signed up to the Delabole Local Tariff.
Wiltshire-based Good Energy sources 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources in the UK. It buys electricity from around 640 independent renewable generators in the UK and has over 40,000 electricity and 15,000 gas customers. It also supports around 59,000 small businesses and households generating renewable electricity for their own use. The company’s power supplies are supported by Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin certificates (REGOs) over 12 months.
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