Chamonix Chalet news

We’re very happy to be able, now, to switch to a green electricity provider, and have chosen GEG of Grenoble to supply power to the chalet. Commended by Greenpeace for their investments into small hydroelectric stations and solar power, and their ongoing efforts to improve energy efficiency at their large corporate clients, they are aiming to hugely increase their solar capacity over the next few years. Their EcoAlp tariff supplies clean electricity to the grid equal to our consumption.

Carbon Neutral is a phrase that gets used a lot - I’m not sure that we can every be truly carbon neutral, but certainly this helps!

It’s slightly ironic that Chamonix is an important source of green electricity for EDF, with its power plant at Montenvers, and the water that powers this plant emerges in the dramatic torrent about 400m from the chalet! However, EDF don’t offer a green tariff of any kind.