It's not an unusual conversation, two friends having a catch up chat, and the talk passing over the issue of how much each household is paying for electricity and which company you are with.  Often the conversation doesn't really result in a conclusion about any thing; it is more a sharing of snippets of information that one or the other may or may not follow-up.   In my case, I had that conversation a couple of weeks ago and the friend I...
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Following my relatively recent decision to buy all our electricity from renewable resources only (green electricity) and from companies that do not have ownership in, are partly owned by or invest in fossil fuel, I left the electricity retailer that I had been with for the last five years.  I probably would have made this change earlier but I was concerned, amongst other things, about the effect on our feed in tariff from our solar system.  So,...
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With two hours until my self-proclaimed publication deadline of 9 am Monday and a week just gone that had a life of its own, decreeing that 'thou shall not write this week', I have woken at various times during the night wondering what I will say today.  I could try to finish one of my nearly complete posts but I know they require additional research and two hours will not be enough time so I reread my...
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