I was awoken by a knock on the door on Saturday and greeted by two salespeople from one of the major electricity retailers. They launched into a spiel about the potential savings I could obtain if I switched my account over to them (on a five year contract of course). Now normally I'd quickly disengage, but I'm kind of curious since I deliberately switched away from this retailer about a year ago. They are hurriedly scribbling numbers on a pad, showing me how much extra money I would "have in my pocket" etc. They seem quite sure that I should be excited by that prospect. I attempt to inform them that I choose to pay an extra ~5.5c/KWh (or about 40%) for green electricity with their competitor since they have a better range of plans based on sourcing electricity from different mixes of renewables. They seem a little put off by this and not quite sure how to respond. It's only momentarily though and they quickly resume scribbling bogus numbers and making promises of large savings.
Sigh.
Given their apparent unwillingness to realize I'm not so interested in the cost of my electricity as I am about pollution in the Latrobe Valley from coal burning power plants I say goodbye. It's not their fault of course - they know their market, and that market probably IS mostly concerned with economics. At least for now.
