Talk:Ecotricity

message: I notice that the league table for 2005 is now available and ecotricity's spend per customer is significantly lower (£901 -> £117).  I'm assuming this is because their customer count has increased by a good multiple.  Does anyone have the numerators and denominators (ie spend and customer count) for each company? MikesPlant 10:06, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WhichGreen numbers 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Ecotricity Logo Green sml copy.jpg

message: I see that the Good Energy article has recently claimed that they were the first (1999) UK wind-gen electricity supplier. The Ecotricity article doesn't have a clear start date for re-selling their power. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:20, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Which was first? 

message: Manufactured controversy or just deliberately misleading? The mysterious author of this latest edit uses ‘weasel words’ to imply that the director’s loans (which are very commonplace & are preferable to dividends in that loans are a company asset which must be repaid) and ecobonds are directly linked & that this somehow constitutes controversy. This is not true. As can be seen in Ecotricity’s accounts & in the ecobond offer documentation & FAQ, if the funds raised by ecobonds were used for anything other than the purpose expressly outlined, then this would be a very serious breach. Contrary to the “weasel words”, the citation used makes no such connection. Indeed it makes the correct position very clear:
 
“Thus while Ecotricity Group Limited have not declared a dividend, and whilst there is no correlation between the loan and the ecobond, there has been signficant advantage to Dale and Kate Vince from the company this year over and above their Director's emoluments of £148,875.”
 
I will not delete/edit this myself as I am employed by the subject of this page & this could be seen as self-promotion. However - it is important to bear in mind the counterpoint to this principle "Wikipedia is not a place to hold grudges, import personal conflicts, carry on ideological battles, or nurture prejudice, hatred, or fear.” 
We feel strongly that we have a right to respond positively to this edit and to correct its inaccuracies. I'd say this deserves a 'disputed' tag.
--Paulecotricity (talk) 11:53, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

message: I did some minor cleanups, and removed the unsourced remnants of the above WP:BLP violation... . This paragraph in the controversy section doesn't appear to be an Ecotricity topic, but a Dale one, so I moved here pending moving to his article:
In the year to 30 April 2011 Ecotricity owner Dale Vince purchased a 71% shareholding in football club Forest Green Rovers F.C. at a cost of £695,000. Dale Vince is the company's main Director and only shareholder and is now Chairman of the football club.  He used his influence to ban all red meat being sold at the club and to use manure on the pitch, creating the only organic football pitch in the world.  
Widefox; talk 22:34, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

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message: The current history of Ecotricity section is the version of events which Dale Vince talks about, but is completely untrue. Vince actually seized control of Ecotricity which had been initially founded and registered by Martin Alder. See Alder's obituary here:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/26/martin-alder-obituary
and original companies house appointment of director here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/BlREX%2BGJ0205-870856_4-12723584.pdf
An article from 1996 confirms that Alder and Karen Lane ran Renewable Energy Company at that time, and Vince was simply an advisor:
https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/963939/first-british-broker-renewable-energy-clean-power-trading-outside-nffo-protection
A 1997 Open University article says has REC getting its energy from landfill gas and hydro, and again quotes Alder:
http://eeru.open.ac.uk/natta/rol9.html
In contrast, the article says Ecotricity ran a wind turbine in 1997 (it didn't) and cites an interview with Dale Vince claiming as such. Unfortunately, it seems Vince has been very good at whitewashing his past, so other sources will be hard to come by. Wikiditm (talk) 16:59, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: As nobody seems to be disputing you I am removing the disputed tag - so I suggest you amend the article and see whether anyone does dispute you in which case you could put the tag back. Chidgk1 (talk) 14:34, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martin Alder whitewash