This looks like a campaign that could really bring home for goods. For what it's worth, the face off inspired me to finally switch electricity suppliers from E.on to a 'green' supplier and I even persuaded my mum and dad to do the same as well.

Hopefully plenty of others will be doing the same and E.on will start to get the message.

Switching suppliers wont save the planet! And me, like all the rest of us poor souls, will still be earning minimum wage in our new green jobs!

The previous posters made no claims that switching suppliers would save the planet, they just said that it would send a strong message to Eon. Like many things, if we all did it, it WOULD make a massive difference. Of course we couldn't actually all do it as there isn't enough capacity currently being produced from renewables for us all to switch right now but obviously the more of us that do, the more incentive there is for further capacity to be developed.

I know what certainly wont save the planet - that's snipping at other people in indymedia comments.

I won't re-hash mainstream media on here but I've just read a whole page report in today's Guardian (Thurs 11th Dec) talking with pretty open admiration for a 'green Banksy' (groan) who was seen on CCTV climbing over electrified fences and doing the deed. " Saboteur breezes in to shut 500MW turbine".
Not that mainstream media is important but - FANTASTIC REPORT!! Really inspiring action.

Lack of capacity isn't the only reason we can't just switch our current power-hungry habits to renewable sources. Transmission loss is the other one. Every mile of transmission from the point of generation to point of use involves huge loss of power. There was a reason dirty old coal-fired power stations were sited on the fringes of urban areas -to minimise transmission loss. Nuclear power stations have to be on the coast or estuaries (heating up the rivers and seas) = greater transmission loss. Most renewable sources are even worse from that point of view, being in remote areas far from where demand is greatest or even, gawdelpus, offshore. Huge windfarms might just be OK in industrial estauries such as the Tyne, Tees or Solent, but not despoiling the hills. They are an abomination and are never going to run all those lazy people's dishwashers anyway.

What needs to go is the national grid. It's not only a creaking, knackered assembly of plant, it's a creaking, knackered idea. Trying to hitch up renewable means of generation to the national grid makes as much sense as Richard Branson taking delivery of a new train, finding the seats comfortable, so getting hundreds of horses to haul it to London. Just not appropriate use of the technology.

Renewable systems just don't fit into the old centralised industrial model of electricity generation. Schemes to crank renewable generation up to an industrial scale for centralised distribution are doomed to fail, if only because of transission losses (though there are other reasons). The only sensible use of renewable technology is LOCAL. Rich people may be able to do it by one or several means at the level of a household. For most of us, it will have to be at the level of the estate, village or local area. In a few favoured locations town city scale may be possible. Local renewable generation will involve less and more efficient use of power and, above all a means of storage, without which current renewable technology is of very limited use. Renewables without storage (doesn't have to be batteries -what about a head of water?) will stay of limited use until and unless really effective geo-thermal systems are developed.

These difficulties would be greatly reduced and a grid system would make more sense if there was a switch back from AC to DC. But that would mean throwing away and re-manufacting nearly every appliance which uses electricity, creating a huge spike in demand for power as well as raw materials, so not practically in the interests of the planet. The only residual worthwhile use for a grid in local, renewable, AC supply would be as a skeletal system for mutual aid between different local generators in case of emergency.

So no, signing up with a "green" electricity supplier doesn't actually do any good. Just another bit of greenwash bollocks, really. Worth it for pissing off E.ON, but don't have any illusions beyond that.

Don't tell me... you've fallen for the 'politically correct' bullshit of 'global warming', despite all the evidence to the contrary, and coal is 'bad'. No, overpopulation is bad - the same overpopulation that you left wing idiots support through the mass immigration of MILLIONS of unwanted third worlders, who breed like rabbits, and have destroyed EVERY white area they have moved into.

Can you show me any evidence to the contrary?
And did you support the miners during the miners' strike? Don't you know that they dig COAL? Idiots.