My UK energy provider says my electricity is produced with 100% renewables, so I presume water, wind, solar. So why am I affected by such big increases in electricity charges (price per kWh)?
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Unfortunately, “made from 100% renewable” is more often than not a trick. The accounting book might be able to say so in a broad way, but you’d get power outages if that was true.
Your energy provider buys green energy and is forced to make a mix at some point.
It is a bit like a state or region saying its energy production is 100% solar and wind; it may be true, but if it only represents 20% of the consumption, and the other part is imported from the next state that just burns coal and gas …
In any case, wood / coal is also a renewable. This is the trick Germany uses to say they left nuclear energy being them (they buy French electricity made with nuclear power plant instead) and use renewables.
I am pretty sure if you read your contract carefully, it will say something along the lines of “100% renewable whenever we can only” .
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