Airtricity - power your home or business from the wind
Monday, July 6th, 2009
How would you like to get your electricity from wind power, and at cheaper rates than the ESB? It’s really easy to switch to Airtricity online, all you need is your ESB account number (on your bill), and if you have the number of the meter reading to hand it makes things even quicker. Within 5 minutes you can be finished with ESB and fossil fuels!
Airtricity is owned by Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE). The renewable-energy company, established in 1999, was the first independent supplier of green energy to customers both in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It has now built up a considerable infrastructure of wind farms across Ireland, with 17 onshore wind farms generating 878 mega watts of electricity – enough to power 180,000 households. At present, the company provides green energy to just over 60,000 customers across the island of Ireland, of which 45,000 are SMEs and 15,000 are domestic customers.
Airtricity has also just announced that they are to create 200 jobs in the Irish market, in the areas of sales, customer support, billing and support services. Fifty of the positions will be created in Airtricity’s headquarters in Sandymount, Co Dublin, with the remaining 150 comprising outsourced roles. Green, clean, and profitable: these are the kind of green shoots that matter.
