Tuesday 9 July 2013

Ofgem fines E.On over CERT lightbulbs

Fine £500k; payment of £2.5m to vulnerable customers.

So, a total outlay of £3m for misreporting the distribution of 3.4 million energy saving lightbulbs. Some of which somehow ended up being sold in Ireland.

They still hit their CERT targets which ended 31 December 2012 however.

Saturday 6 July 2013

National Grid Winter Outlook

Lots of charts: WinterConsultationReport201314FINAL2.pdf. I guess this is a very early Christmas present for the energy geek.

I like this one, shows the cold peaks we had over the last winter.


The analysis on spark and dark spreads is also interesting. Looks like coal continues to have an important role in the UK while gas is expensive.

I also learnt a bit about weather correction which I probably should have known; not directly from this report but it forced me to understand it better.