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- Utilities:
Gas, Electricity, Telecoms, Water and Sewage
There is now a huge choice
in the number of service providers. For energy companies with
good green credentials, we suggest you look at Ecotricity,
Good Energy
or Green Energy UK;
failing that many energy providers give options on going on to
a green tariff.
For an ethical telephone and
broadband provider, try The
Phone Coop -a consumer cooperative owned entirely by
its customers, with a strong ethical and social responsibilty
policy.
Energy:
Gas and Electricity
- Atlantic
Electric and Gas -part
of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group.
- British Gas
-their website at house.co.uk includes a lot more than just gas,
covering everything from moving home to managing your bills.
- Countrywide Energy -a subsidiary of Countrywide Farmers, an organisation
that has been supplying energy to the farming and rural community
since the 1950s.
- Ecotricity
-electricity company dedicated to clean renewable energy such
as wind energy.
- EDF
Energy -name for the
merged London Electricity and Seeboard Group of companies, including
London Energy, Seeboard Energy and
SWEB Energy.
- Eon - includes the former Poergen, Eon
are the world's largest investor owned energy company, with around
9 million electricity and gas accounts, and one of the leading
names in green generation.
- Good Energy
-supply 100% renewable electricity sourced from the natural energy
of wind, sun or running water.
- Green Energy UK -energy company specialising in renewable technologies.
- National
Energy Foundation
-offers advice on using green energy.
- nPower -the retail arm of RWE npower, a leading
integrated UK energy company, part of the RWE Group. RWE npower
operates and manages flexible, low-cost coal, oil and gas-fired
power stations and are developing innovative energy-related technologies.
- Scottish Power -Manweb -one of the UK's top three energy distributors,
supplying power to over 5m homes.
- Southern Electric
-part of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. Along with Scottish Hydro Electric and
SWALEC, they serve over
5 million customers across the UK.
- Utilita -small company offering electricity,
gas and telecoms services.
Telephone
and Internet
Telecoms -general information:
- Hometech Integration -company specialising in installation of integrated
home technology systems combining audio, internet and TV -.
- Ofcom -The independent regulator and competition
authority for the UK communications industries.
- Icstis -The regulatory body for the premium
rate telecommunications industry -gives advice on the code of
standards and on-line complaints procedure.
- Skype -the leading internet telephony provider.
- The
Phone Coop -cooperative
provider of telephone and internet services owned entirely by
its customers, with a strong ethical and social responsibilty
policy.
Land line and Broadband Providers
-the major providers are listed below:
Mobile phones -the major UK
providers are listed below -we will not go into any detail on
this as is outside the coverage of this site:
Water and
Sewage
Use of grey water -water butts;
- Albion Water Ltd -no website
- Anglian Water Services Ltd -serves properties in East Anglia and the East
Midlands.
- Bournemouth
& West Hampshire Water plc
-water services providers on the south coast.
- Bristol Water
-supplies drinking water to customers around Bristol.
- Cambridge Water plc -drinking water supplier for South Cambridgeshire.
- Cholderton & District
Water Company -no website
- Dee Valley Water plc -water to a quarter of a million users in Chester
and north east Wales.
- Dwr
Cymru / Welsh Water
-supplies water and sewerage services to households in Wales
and some parts of England.
- Essex
& Suffolk Water plc
-part of Northumbrian Water Ltd. Also provides plumbing, heating
and electrical emergency cover.
- Folkestone
& Dover Water Services Ltd
-providing water to 160,000 customers in SE Kent.
- Jersey
water -sole provider
of treated mains water in Jersey, supplying approximately 90%
of the Island's population.
- Mid Kent Water
-supply of drinking water and home emergency products for gas
boilers, electrical wiring and plumbing/drainage to Kent
- Northern
Ireland Water Service
-provides water and sewerage services to over 730,000 domestic,
agricultural, commercial and business customers throughout Northern
Ireland
- Northumbrian
Water Ltd -water supplies
to Northumbria.
- Portsmouth Water
-customers around the Portsmouth area.
- Scottish Water
-providing water and waste water services to over 2 million customers
in Scotland.
- Severn
Trent Water -also responsible
for the provision of gas, electricity, telecoms and insurance
services.
- South East Water plc -supplier to 1.5 million people in Kent, Sussex,
Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.
- South Staffordshire Water plc -water provider to over one million
customers in the Black Country.
- South
West Water Ltd -provides
water and sewerage services to households in the Westcountry.
- Southern Water
-are responsible for delivering water to households in the South
East of England, and also treat and recycle dirty water from
nearly two million households.
- Sutton
and East Surrey Water
-water suppliers to approximately 650,000 people in east Surrey,
and parts of west Sussex, west Kent and south London.
- Tendring
Hundred Water Services Ltd
-serve homes and businesses in the Tendring Peninsula in Essex.
- Thames Water Utilities -provides sewage services to thirteen million
people and drinking water to eight million people across London
and the Thames Valley: from Kent in the east to Gloucestershire
in the west.
- Three
Valleys Water plc -supplier
in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire,
Surrey, and the London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow,
Hillingdon and Enfield.
- United Utilities
web site -operate water and electricity networks in north west
England and manage utility and business process services for
clients throughout the UK.
- Water
UK: Water UK publishes
results of its 2005 survey of investors in water company debt
and equity.
- Wessex
Water -water and sewerage
services for Bath and the surrounding areas in the south west.
- Yorkshire Water
-provides 1.7m households and 140,000 businesses in Yorkshire
with water and sewerage services.
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books:
- Eco-Refurbishment: A Practical
Guide to Creating an Energy Efficient Home
Peter Smith
Architectural Press
Paperback - Oct 2003
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