Saving environment is the prime matter of concern for all these days. In the wake of this, Ecotricity, the gas and electricity supplier in UK has announced the launch of the first ever green gas tariff plan in the coming months. The company says that it is tendering an opportunity to the customers to “change the world”.

On doing this, Ecotricity will become the first ever energy supplier of UK to make green gas available to the British households.

Green gas is the safest and harmless fuel that does not harm the environment. It is also called biogas and is made during a composting-like process where microbes break down organic material, such as food waste and sewage.

The energy supplier has scheduled the launch of the new service in February 2010. The green gas tariff that matches the British Gas’ standard prices will aid the users in plummeting their carbon footprint, cut landfill wastes and promoting a healthy and pollution free environment.

Founder of Ecotricity, Dale Vince said: “By choosing green gas, customers can make a positive long-term change to the world we live in.”

He added: “Nobody has to carry on giving their money to the big multinational energy companies, who seem determined to keep burning whatever in the world they can get their hands on.”

Ecotricity also concurred on getting the right and proper Government backing, the green gas could be generated in ample amount to cater to the fuel needs of as much as half the UK’s domestic gas users.

Commercial manager at Energychoices.co.uk, Chris Eagle said: “It’s worth noting that the gas provided by this tariff won’t be 100% green straight away.

“Ecotricity’s business model means the more customers that sign up, the more green gas plants it can build, and the higher percentage of gas supplied will be green (the rest will be brown gas bought on the energy market).

“This model has already worked with the company’s green electricity, and over the last five years has seen it invest £450 per year per customer in new sources of renewable electricity.”

“If you want to help create a supply of green gas for the future, signing up to Ecotricity is a great way to do so.”

Ecotricity’s green gas tariff will be available from February, but people can register their interest on Ecotricity’s website now.

According to the Government’s strategy of equipping every house of UK with a ‘Smart Meter’ by the year 2020, it is planning to offer several lucrative “time-of-day” tariffs to the energy consumers of Britain, on installation of Smart Meters through Key players in the field of Energy supplying.

Energy providers like Npower and others are likely to offer more flexible and discounted tariffs to the consumers that will empower them to save some extra expenditure on their energy bills, in the meanwhile, it will also promote usage of energy at less popular times. This, process is expected to be resulted in maintaining an equilibrium in terms of energy consumption levels in the UK, through out the day.

Giant energy supplier, Npower is already trialling a new “Time-of-day” Tariff in the Midlands and it is getting positive response from the users. According to the Npower spokesperson, Nicholas McHugh, “We will probably see the demise of Economy 7 and Economy 10 tariffs.”

New “Happy Hours” are likely to offer more flexible discounted periods to the consumers, as compared to the existing Economy7 and Economy10 Tariff plans, which provide only a limited periods of discounted energy. Npower is planning to introduce a “traffic light” system, under which the Smart Meters will demonstrate the cost of energy in Red, Amber or Green colours.

Chris Eagle, commercial manager at Energychoices.co.uk, said: “Smart meters are good news for the consumer. Several studies have shown that, people are more likely to reduce their energy consumption if they can see it clearly.” Adding more to his statement, he said with exceitement “Customers are always attracted by discounted energy and the traffic light system could give them a new level of control over their usage.”

There are many households who can face carbon monoxide poisoning as they are not getting their boilers checked annually while a section of people lack any boiler insurance.

By avoiding this checking of boilers, the Brits are taking a financial and safety risk.

According to a research conducted by the uSwitch, around 42% of households do not get their boiler checked every year. It is very important to get the boilers checked from time to time so as to avoid the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Boiler insurance comprises of an annual service. Thus, by going for boiler insurance, one can feel relaxed about the safety of the boiler.

Moreover, there are around 65% of households without any kind of heating or boiler cover in place. These households are taking a financial as well as safety risk one in three boilers breaks down within six years of being installed. This can cost up to £1,200 for replacing the four key parts.

Chris Eagle, said: “Boiler insurance is a great way to spread the cost of call-outs and repairs, and it usually includes an annual service so you can get peace of mind that your boiler is in good condition.

“ British Gas offers a range of HomeCare boiler insurance packages, starting from just £13 a month, and if you sign up before 31 December you can get one month free.

According to the Gas Safe Register, 14 people have died because of carbon monoxide poisoning while 234 faced health problems after being exposed to it.

Now the gas prepayment meter customers will get an early £12 Christmas present from the Scottish & Southern Energy.

This winter, credits worth £3.5million will be issued by the Energy giant Scottish and Southern Energy to around 300,000 gas prepayment meter customers. This is all done by the Scottish and Southern energy for helping the people in bringing down their energy costs.

The main purpose behind the designing of this credit is to support all the gas prepayment tariff customers to bring down their energy costs specially during the months in which gas consumption is more.

The companies supplying energy under the brands Southern Electric, Scottish Hydro Electric, Swalec, Atlantic Electric and Gas etc will inform all the customers regarding the addition of £12 credit to their gas meter.

Alistair Phillips-Davies, energy supply director at Scottish & Southern, said: “This credit is designed to help all our gas prepayment tariff customers during the months in which they use most gas.”

The prepayment tariffs of the Scottish and Southern energy typically cost customers £18 more a year as compared to its standard tariffs. This is because of additional costs associated with providing and maintaining prepayment meters, the company says.

In 2006, the extra charges were removed by the Scottish & Southern on its electricity prepayment tariffs when they were “equalised” with its standard credit tariffs.

Chris Eagle, commercial manager at Energychoices.co.uk, said: “This is good news for Scottish & Southern’s gas prepayment meters, and will go some way to cut their winter energy costs.

“However, ideally we would like to see the gas prepayment tariff ‘equalised’ with standard credit tariffs too.”