How Setting Up Renewable Energy in Your New Home Impacts Your Life

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of moving into a new home. The sense of turning a page, starting a new chapter in your life, and the feeling of near-infinite possibility. Of course, moving home can also be a stressful and expensive ordeal. But while there are a lot of costs that come with moving to a new home, there are also opportunities for savings. When you’re setting up energy in a new home, you can potentially reduce your carbon footprint and save money in the long term by switching to a renewable energy plan as soon as possible.

What is renewable energy?

If you’re familiar with our work at ICAX, you probably already know a thing or two about renewable energy. But for the newcomers, a renewable energy plan is one that exclusively provides electricity from renewable sources such as solar, wind and hydropower.

Why should I set up renewable energy in my new home?

Setting up energy in your new home may seem like a low priority when moving. After all, you have boxes to unpack, paint samples to try out and furniture to arrange. Setting up a renewable energy plan in your new home can bring a range of benefits.

Switch-Plan can help you to find a great energy plan to suit your household’s needs and help you get the perfect head start in setting up energy in your new home. So the first steps you take in your new home leave a much lower carbon footprint.

Reduce your carbon footprint

Because renewable energy plans use carbon-neutral electricity you can save roughly 1.1 tonnes of carbon from entering our atmosphere every year when you switch. What’s more, most renewable electricity tariffs can also be paired with either carbon-neutral or carbon-offset gas. Carbon-neutral gas uses biomethane from renewable sources like farm and animal waste. Carbon-offset gas is natural gas, the carbon footprint of which is offset by other carbon-neutral activities and investments by the supplier.

Save money

As soon as you move into your new home you may be placed on an expensive deemed contract with the previous occupant’s deemed energy supplier. These may use the supplier’s standard variable tariff which is almost always their least competitively priced. The longer you remain on this tariff, the more you waste. Setting up renewable energy in your new home can prevent overspending. In fact, renewable energy tariffs are often among the cheapest on the market.

Add to the demand for renewable energy

Setting up energy in a new house is about more than making sure the lights stay on. When you choose a renewable energy tariff you’re voting with your wallet for a more sustainable energy industry. One that could easily see reliance on fossil fuels disappear within our lifetimes. If we all switch to renewable energy we could drive down the world’s carbon emissions by up to 70% by 2050.

How do I find a great renewable energy tariff?

That’s easy. Just get in touch with the team at Switch-Plan. You can check out their website here. They can trawl the market to find a renewable energy plan that helps you to save the planet while also saving money.

It’s pretty much a no-brainer!

 

 

 

 

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