Like 1.5 million French people, you have the green fiber and you have subscribed to an offer of green electricity more respectful of the environment? So it is possible that your money is actually used to invest in fossil fuels. This is what the NGO Greenpeace reveals in a report that ranks green offers.
A green offer does not guarantee electricity ... green
Because the first thing to know when subscribing to a "green offer" is that it does not guarantee to have a "green electricity" in its wall outlets, but simply that your supplier agrees to pay a a kind of bonus for non-polluting renewable energy producers. If this reality can already make some disillusioned, it is nothing next to what denounces Greenpeace in his report published this Thursday.
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"They [green energy providers, ed] fool the consumer who thinks to choose a green consumer when in reality he puts his money in the nuclear, coal, gas, or oil," says the microphone. Europe 1 Alix Mazounie, from Greenpeace France. And to clarify: "There is in particular Eni, an Italian group, Total, Direct Energie, and EDF". EDF which "continues to invest in nuclear energy five times more than in renewable energies," she recalls. A classification that is very similar to that drawn up last year by the NGO. Out of 27 electricity suppliers in France, only five offer a 100% green offer.
So what are the electricity providers that are really green? At the top of the ranking drawn up by the NGO are Enercoop, Planète Oui, and Urban Solar energy. Three small suppliers little known to the general public.