🌬️☀️⚡️ Choosing a committed electricity offer

Certain offers encourage the development of renewable energy in our region.

Here are some explanations to make things clearer

At present, the vast majority of electricity offers in France are advertised as green. However, not all of them guarantee that the electricity purchased supports the production of renewable energy in France, as the term "green" might suggest.

How does it work? Some electricity offers claim to be "green" because the supplier buys certificates, known as "guarantees of origin", from European producers of renewable electricity, whereas it buys the electricity (which will be resold to its customers) from another producer who uses gas, coal or any other non-renewable energy source to make the electricity. &gt Having "guarantee of origin" certificates means that the electricity supplier can declare its offer to be green, regardless of how the electricity it sells to its customers is actually produced. &gt This possibility is made possible by the operation of the European market in guarantee of origin certificates. These were created to encourage the development of renewable energies, but the system has reached its limits: in some cases, the certificates are bought from producers in distant countries who do not exchange electricity with France. It is therefore impossible for electricity generated from renewable sources to reach the homes of French consumers. What's more, the current very low price of the certificates does not really make it possible to finance the development of new renewable energy installations. &gt In order to make the content of 'green' electricity offers more transparent and to help consumers, ADEME has decided to award a label (the Vervolt label) to offers where energy suppliers are linked to renewable energy producers in France for all the electricity they supply to their consumers. &gt All the information on the Vervolt label and the committed or very committed energy offers can be found here. &gt And if you want to find out more about the development of renewable energies in France, you can find out more about wind power here and photovoltaicshere