{"id":26573,"date":"2019-03-30T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26573"},"modified":"2019-03-29T21:48:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T21:48:54","slug":"net-goes-green-with-new-energy-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26573","title":{"rendered":"NET goes green with new energy contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All power on Nottingham Express Transit will be \u201cgreen electricity\u201d following the award of a new multi million contract to Robin Hood Energy. The new deal will start from 1st April and replaces the current deal which is said to be from a \u201cbig six energy provider\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Robin Hood Energy is a not for profit energy company and is the first local authority owned energy company in the UK having been founded in 2015. Its original aim was to be a competitor to the big six energy companies and they aim to keep prices low.<\/p>\n<p>The award of the contract was made after a lengthy competitive tender process with Paul Robinson, Managing Director of Nottingham Trams Limited, saying: \u201cWe conducted a strict Official Journal of the European Union tender process and Robin Hood Energy clearly demonstrated the most competitive price. It is good that we can link up with a local energy provider which has clear green credentials. This is important since we are constantly striving to make our operations as environmentally friendly as possible. Our network is already providing car drivers with a cleaner alternative form of transport and awarding this contract will help us to improve our green performance even further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gail Scholes, Chief Executive Officer for Robin Hood Energy, added: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to win the contract to supply one of Nottingham\u2019s iconic businesses. The tram network plays a pivotal role in getting Nottingham people to work, to school or hospital appointments, as well as helping to connect people socially and alleviate some of the problems of social exclusion in the region. So, we\u2019re naturally delighted to play a part in this within our heartland of Nottingham.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All power on Nottingham Express Transit will be \u201cgreen electricity\u201d following the award of a new multi million contract to Robin Hood Energy. The new deal will start from 1st April and replaces the current deal which is said to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26573\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26732,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26573\/revisions\/26732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}