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Arthur Potts Dawson to demonstrate delicious lower carbon recipes

Renowned green chef and social entrepreneur Arthur Potts Dawson will be demonstrating how to make mackerel ceviche and sweetcorn, chilli and coriander griddle cakes at the Real Food Harvest Festival. Both recipes are taken from Good Energy’s new ‘Good Kitchen’ guide, featuring exclusive seasonal recipes and tips on how to give your kitchen a green makeover – from how to source ingredients to cutting energy use.

As Arthur says: “It’s great to see growing awareness of the importance of supporting local food suppliers – but how food is prepared also has an impact. A third of household energy consumption takes place in the kitchen. It’s time to think about cutting down on ‘carbon calories’ using a few simple ideas which I’ll be showcasing at the Real Food Harvest Festival when I cook up some of my brand new recipes from the Good Energy Good Kitchen guide.”

Just as Arthur Potts Dawson believes in supporting local, seasonal and organic food producers, Good Energy believes in supporting local, homegrown electricity generators. As the UK’s only 100% renewable electricity supplier it has 27,000 customers who have chosen zero carbon electricity.

Good Energy founder and CEO Juliet Davenport adds: “Switching to Good Energy is like buying from a farmers’ market rather than a supermarket. Just like food, it all comes down to provenance. We’re really pleased to be supporting the Real Food Harvest Festival this year as we feel that people who care about where their food comes from, and how it is produced, will also want to think about how to cook it in a way that’s best for the environment it comes from.”

The Good Energy Good Kitchen Guide will be available at the Good Energy stand at the Real Food Harvest Festival or can be requested free of charge via email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
 

Good Energy: electricity that’s local, natural and renewable

The Real Food Festival’s simple idea is to reconnect people with where their food comes from and encourage them to buy from the people who produce it. As a green energy supplier, we want to encourage more people to think about where their energy comes from too.

Good Energy is the UK’s 100% renewable electricity supplier and we support nearly 2,000 independent renewable generators spread across the country. Switching your supply to us encourages further small-scale renewable energy generation in the UK – it’s like buying your electricity from a farmers’ market rather than a supermarket. And because our main ‘Good Energy’ electricity tariff is fully verified under the Green Energy Supply Certification Scheme – the energy industry’s equivalent of the Soil Association’s highly respected Organic Certification – consumers can be sure that our electricity is genuinely green.

Founded over a decade ago with one clear goal – to make a difference to climate change – we’re as true to that as when we started out. Reliant on the burning of fossil fuels, the way society currently generates energy releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And with over 60% of all of the UK’s energy currently coming from abroad we have little or no control over its distribution and price. This affects our energy security and is an issue that will become increasingly important as finite fossil fuel resources become ever scarcer. We wanted to offer people the opportunity to make a better choice. That’s why our electricity is local, natural and renewable, available for generations to come.

Our vision is of a decentralised and democratic renewable energy network for Britain. From wind turbines powering ice cream production on Mackie’s farm in Aberdeenshire to an anaerobic digester on a dairy farm in Dorset, more than one in 15 of our customers generate their own electricity. And they’re all harnessing natural power from the wind, water, sun or sustainable biogeneration. Bringing energy generation into the community engages people with its provenance. We believe that when we understand where energy comes from we will value it more and use it less.

We’re also investing in new sources of renewable generation. We recently redeveloped our own wind farm in Delabole, North Cornwall which is the first in a pipeline of projects we’ve got planned over the next five years – enough new wind energy to supply a city about the size of Cambridge.

Initiatives like the Real Food Festival have revolutionised the way many of us perceive and purchase food. Good Energy’s dedication to growing renewables in the UK comes from our desire to achieve similar change in the energy industry. Just as how choosing where you buy your food has a wider impact, so does your choice of energy supplier. For every unit of electricity our customers use during the course of a year, we supply the national grid with an equivalent unit from a renewable source that meets our rigorous purchasing policy. Choosing Good Energy to be your electricity supplier is like pouring fresh water into a dirty reservoir. Slowly but surely we’ll clean it up.

Together we do this.

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