Making the electric switch helps us all to lower our impact on the world around us. It’s also changing the way we power our vehicles, and how we integrate charging them into everyday life. So, to celebrate the launch of Move Electric, we’ve joined forces with OVO Energy as our official home charging partner.
How OVO Energy is powering UK homes
Launched in 2009 in the heart of the Cotswolds, OVO Energy is driven by a fresh approach to home energy. After all, ‘ovo’ means ‘new beginnings’ in Latin. As a result, OVO Energy is changing the game for home energy by using 100% renewably sourced electricity.
More a community of like-minded members than an energy supplier, OVO Energy launched Plan Zero – its response to the climate emergency – in 2019. Through Plan Zero, OVO Energy has committed to becoming a net zero carbon business by 2020, while also helping its members to halve their own carbon footprint by the same time.
After all, based on carbon footprinting analysis carried out by the Carbon Trust on behalf of OVO Energy in 2021, home energy usage makes up around 26% of our total carbon footprint. That’s more than driving a diesel car from London to Bristol over 110 times, so it’s easy to see how making changes to how we heat and power our homes can have a big broader beneficial impact on the world around us.
OVO Energy even helps its members contribute back to the environment. Each year, OVO Energy plants one carbon-fighting tree for each-and-every one of its members, in partnership with the Woodland Trust. To date, OVO Energy has already planted 1.9 million trees on behalf of members to help slow the impact of climate change.
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Changing the game for home charging
OVO Energy knows that electric cars play a key role in helping us all reduce our day-to-day emissions and our carbon footprint. And, with 80% of EV charging done at home according to UK government research, making home charging even easier and more cost-effective is crucial to the process.
That’s why OVO Energy has pioneered OVO Drive + Anytime – a pioneering ‘type-of-use’ tariff designed specifically for EV owners. It boasts an ultra-low rate of just 5p per kWh whenever you charge your car using the smart charging schedule, rewarding you for using energy from the grid when it’s cheapest and greenest.
OVO Energy can even help you find the perfect electric car and cut your running costs from the start. When you lease a new EV from OVO Energy’s award-winning partner Vanarama, for example, they’ll make the process simple and easy, and you’ll also enjoy a year’s free insurance and £75 energy credit. Or, if you buy a new MINI Electric, OVO Energy will offer 5,000 miles of free green electricity when you switch to the OVO Drive tariff.
OVO Energy can also help you with home smart charger installation – offering a range of exclusive savings with a range of premium home charger manufacturers that offers some of the best tech around, as well as £70 off the purchase price for OVO Energy members.
Illuminated thinking for home energy
Whether you’re already an EV convert, or yet to join the electric car movement, OVO Energy has plenty of other bright ideas to help us all reduce our impact on the planet, while also lowering our home energy costs.
OVO Beyond, for example, is a 100% carbon-neutral dual-fuel energy package. It uses 100% renewable electricity from sources such as wind and solar power, as well as 100% carbon-neutral gas that combines 15% green gas from biomethane or biogas, allied to carbon offsetting. OVO Beyond also steps up OVO’s commitment to tree-planting, with an increased five trees planted on your behalf each year, as well as carbon-offsetting projects that save and renew forests in Guatemala and Uganda.
Alternatively, there’s the OVO Greenlight energy tool, which helps you to see and understand the impact of your energy usage, while also giving you handy tips and hints for saving energy, helping you lower your impact and your bills.
Then, there’s OVO Energy’s wireless tado Smart Thermostat, which lets you plan and control your heating and hot water remotely from your smartphone. It uses geofencing to remind you to switch of your heating when you leave your home and can even alter your heating if the weather changes or. All combined, it could potentially reduce your heating bills by up to 31%.
So, however you’re looking to reduce your impact on the planet, Move Electric and OVO Energy are here to provide the answer.