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		<title>By: David MacClement</title>
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		<dc:creator>David MacClement</dc:creator>
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		<description>· I agree, Christiaan, and I'm envious; I've switched my main archive to a free site in Germany, for those sorts of reasons.
· I like what you said: "my criteria for a new host included that it be low carbon, not store any data in the U.S., and do business in English. That’s a surprisingly difficult combination being that most English-speaking low carbon web hosts are in the U.S., using Californian solar energy to power their data centres."

David. http://mitglied.lycos.de/davd/

_Ecotricity_'s: http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/about/our-progress/
- has:
"Ecotricity Progress Report 2007
 ... http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/about/our-progress/report-2007.pdf
-(1.64 MB PDF) has, on page 12 of 16:
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The chart below shows that from April'05 to 
April'06, 20% of our total energy supply was from
New Energy and that it increased to just over 24%
the next year (year ending April'07). Based on our
current schedule we’re on course to make
further big strides this year - we expect to hit
30% by April 2008.

It’s worth mentioning that this increase in our
% of new green energy is against a background
of customer numbers (and therefore amount of
electricity supplied) growing strongly year-on-
year. We’d have our work cut out just keeping
our % of green steady with customer numbers
growing like that. In fact we achieved an increase
of 50% in green supply while our customer
numbers quadrupled over the last four years
– We’re pretty pleased with that.

Fuel supply ~_~_ ~_~_ ~_~_ Ecotricity ~_~_ ~_~_ ~_~_~ UK-National Avge

~_~_ ~_~_ ~_ Apr05-Mar06 _ Apr06-Mar07 _ 2007/08 (proj)_ 06-07 UK avge

Coal _~_~_ ~_~_ 20.2%~_~_ ~_~_ 23.8%~_~_ ~_~_ 21.7%~_~_ ~_~_ ~_ 35.8%

Natural gas~_~_ 24.7%~_~_ ~_~_ 22.8%~_~_ ~_~_ 20.8%~_~_ ~_~_ ~_ 38.8%

Nuclear~_~_ ~_~ 30.3%~_~_ ~_~_ 25.9%~_~_ ~_~_ 23.7%~_~_ ~_~_ ~_ 18.6%

Renewable~_~_ ~ 20.2%~_~_ ~_~_ 24.1%~_~_ ~_~_ 30.7%~_~_ ~_~_ ~_~ 4.7%

Other ~_~_ ~_~_~ 4.5%~_~_ ~_~_~ 3.3%~_~_ ~_~_~ 3.1%~_~_ ~_~_ ~_~ 2.1%

Environmental Impact

CO2 emissions* _ 0.292 ~_~_ ~_ 0.316 ~_~_ ~_~_ N/A _~_~_ _~_~_ 0.461
Radioactive
- waste** ~_ ~_ 0.00363 ~_ ~_ 0.00285 _~_ ~_~_ N/A _~_~_ ~_~_ 0.0025

*CO2 emissions are in kg/kWh;
**Radioactive waste relates to high-level waste in g/kWh
Renewable supply figures include an estimated 11% reduction for transmission and distribution losses.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>· I agree, Christiaan, and I&#8217;m envious; I&#8217;ve switched my main archive to a free site in Germany, for those sorts of reasons.<br />
· I like what you said: &#8220;my criteria for a new host included that it be low carbon, not store any data in the U.S., and do business in English. That’s a surprisingly difficult combination being that most English-speaking low carbon web hosts are in the U.S., using Californian solar energy to power their data centres.&#8221;</p>
<p>David. <a href="http://mitglied.lycos.de/davd/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('a/mitglied.lycos.de');" rel="nofollow">http://mitglied.lycos.de/davd/</a></p>
<p>_Ecotricity_&#8217;s: <a href="http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/about/our-progress/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('a/www.ecotricity.co.uk');" rel="nofollow">http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/about/our-progress/</a><br />
- has:<br />
&#8220;Ecotricity Progress Report 2007<br />
 &#8230; <a href="http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/about/our-progress/report-2007.pdf" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('a/www.ecotricity.co.uk');" rel="nofollow">http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/about/our-progress/report-2007.pdf</a><br />
-(1.64 MB PDF) has, on page 12 of 16:<br />
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<p>The chart below shows that from April&#8217;05 to<br />
April&#8217;06, 20% of our total energy supply was from<br />
New Energy and that it increased to just over 24%<br />
the next year (year ending April&#8217;07). Based on our<br />
current schedule we’re on course to make<br />
further big strides this year - we expect to hit<br />
30% by April 2008.</p>
<p>It’s worth mentioning that this increase in our<br />
% of new green energy is against a background<br />
of customer numbers (and therefore amount of<br />
electricity supplied) growing strongly year-on-<br />
year. We’d have our work cut out just keeping<br />
our % of green steady with customer numbers<br />
growing like that. In fact we achieved an increase<br />
of 50% in green supply while our customer<br />
numbers quadrupled over the last four years<br />
– We’re pretty pleased with that.</p>
<p>Fuel supply ~_~_ ~_~_ ~_~_ Ecotricity ~_~_ ~_~_ ~_~_~ UK-National Avge</p>
<p>~_~_ ~_~_ ~_ Apr05-Mar06 _ Apr06-Mar07 _ 2007/08 (proj)_ 06-07 UK avge</p>
<p>Coal _~_~_ ~_~_ 20.2%~_~_ ~_~_ 23.8%~_~_ ~_~_ 21.7%~_~_ ~_~_ ~_ 35.8%</p>
<p>Natural gas~_~_ 24.7%~_~_ ~_~_ 22.8%~_~_ ~_~_ 20.8%~_~_ ~_~_ ~_ 38.8%</p>
<p>Nuclear~_~_ ~_~ 30.3%~_~_ ~_~_ 25.9%~_~_ ~_~_ 23.7%~_~_ ~_~_ ~_ 18.6%</p>
<p>Renewable~_~_ ~ 20.2%~_~_ ~_~_ 24.1%~_~_ ~_~_ 30.7%~_~_ ~_~_ ~_~ 4.7%</p>
<p>Other ~_~_ ~_~_~ 4.5%~_~_ ~_~_~ 3.3%~_~_ ~_~_~ 3.1%~_~_ ~_~_ ~_~ 2.1%</p>
<p>Environmental Impact</p>
<p>CO2 emissions* _ 0.292 ~_~_ ~_ 0.316 ~_~_ ~_~_ N/A _~_~_ _~_~_ 0.461<br />
Radioactive<br />
- waste** ~_ ~_ 0.00363 ~_ ~_ 0.00285 _~_ ~_~_ N/A _~_~_ ~_~_ 0.0025</p>
<p>*CO2 emissions are in kg/kWh;<br />
**Radioactive waste relates to high-level waste in g/kWh<br />
Renewable supply figures include an estimated 11% reduction for transmission and distribution losses.</p>
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