MORE AWARDS SUCCESS FOR GREEN ENERGY UK

21 May 2010

GREEN ENERGY UK WIN FURTHER AWARDS

Green Energy UK has scooped two prizes in this year’s Federation of Small Business Hertfordshire Awards, which attracted entries from companies across the county. In recognition of Green Energy UK’s entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to the environment, judges awarded the company runner-up prizes in the ‘Enterprising Business’ and ‘Environmental Responsibility’ categories. These wins follow Green Energy UK being crowned “Winner of Winners” in the Cisco/Real Business Customer Kings 2010 competition in March, where the company beat more than 100 others to the national award for top customer service.

Green Energy UK founder and chief executive, Doug Stewart, says: “The awards are a fantastic accolade and a measure of how far we’ve come since Green Energy UK started in 2001. The team had a great time at the final and it was good to meet so many other businesses doing such a fantastic job - well done to everyone involved.”

Enterprising business: Green Energy UK was started with £50,000 and began life by supplying electricity to friends of staff. Today Green Energy UK turns over more than £5m, up 50% (almost £2m) from 2008. The company is growing steadily all the time, building a strong name in an industry dominated by heavyweights. Green Energy UK was the first company to offer customers a choice of green and renewable tariffs and is the only private company in the UK to offer customers free shares in the company (one day, up to half of Green Energy UK will be owned by its customers).

Environmental responsibility: Green Energy UK supplies 100% green and renewable electricity from a diverse portfolio of sources. There is no brown energy in its tariffs. The company is committed to ‘greening up the grid’, helping homes and businesses across the UK reduce their CO2 emissions. Green Energy UK is working to expand the facilitation and support of new types of generation and supplies energy from a number of innovative generators - for example, this year the company went live with a generator making electricity from demolition waste, and over the past few years it has helped facilitate electricity from pig manure, vegetable oil, and waste fruit and veg, as well as more conventional sources such as wind and solar.

Doug Stewart concludes: “We know there are more green and renewable sources out there and we intend to bring them to market, further lessening the UK’s reliance on fossil fuels. It means a lot for our work to be recognised in this way.”

Details of all winners can be found on the FSB website: http://www.fsb.org.uk/winners