John Murray Brown

Yurt Lush, a Mongolian themed restaurant, this month became the first business to pay its electricity bill using the “Bristol pound”. Good Energy, which believes it is the first energy supplier in the world to take a local currency as means of payment, says about 10 customers have now settled their accounts this way since the utility launched the offer in June. “There are couple of other local currency projects in the UK, but none of them have quite got the traction that Bristol has,” says Cha…

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