Independent insight into the energy market.
Every piece here is built to leave you knowing something you didn't five minutes ago - not company news, just useful thinking.
What Your Half-Hourly Data Is Actually Telling You
Every meter produces 48 numbers a day. Almost nobody looks at them - here's what's hiding in yours.
Read the article →Energy Brokers Are About to Be Regulated. What Should Businesses Expect?
Ofgem is moving to regulate energy brokers and comparison sites for the first time. Here's what that will fix, what it won't, and what to keep asking regardless.
Read the article →Half Your Electricity Bill Isn't Electricity
Wholesale energy is commonly well under half a commercial bill. Here's what makes up the rest, why the numbers are ranges rather than facts, and the 2023 reform still reshaping your invoice today.
Read the article →Why the Cheapest Battery Quote Is Often the Most Expensive Project
Two quotes for the same headline capacity can differ enormously in what they actually deliver over ten years. The cheapest number upfront is rarely the cheapest project overall.
Read the article →Behind-the-Meter PPAs, Explained Properly
Zero-capital solar sounds like it shouldn't work. Here's the structure that makes it real, not a trick.
Read the article →Your Warehouse Has the Roof. Your Factory Has the Demand. Can They Share the Electricity?
Common ownership doesn't merge meters. Here's when sharing generation between sites is genuinely possible, what actually determines it, and where it usually falls down.
Read the article →Every Meter Is Becoming Half-Hourly. Will That Make Your Energy Contract Smarter?
Market-wide half-hourly settlement is moving millions of meters onto precise, timed measurement. That should sharpen pricing - but more data doesn't automatically mean a better deal.
Read the article →What Your BMS Already Knows About Your Energy Waste
Most sites with a Building Management System already have the data to explain a meaningful share of their energy waste. Almost nobody actually looks at it that way.
Read the article →What Happens When Your Energy Supplier Goes Bust?
Supply doesn't stop when a supplier fails - Ofgem's Supplier of Last Resort process sees to that. What happens to your contract and your credit balance is a different question.
Read the article →Should You Oversize Your Solar Array?
Fitting more solar panel capacity than the inverter can output sounds wasteful. In practice, it's a deliberate, well-understood design choice - within limits.
Read the article →Why 'Net Zero' Is Usually the Wrong Place to Start
Starting an energy conversation with a carbon target, rather than the business problem it's meant to solve, tends to produce worse decisions - not because carbon doesn't matter, but because of what gets skipped.
Read the article →The Myth of the Perfect Solar Payback
Simple payback is easy to calculate and easy to get wrong. Three projects can share an identical payback figure and be worth very different amounts over their life.
Read the article →Why Your Maximum Demand Matters More Than Your Annual Consumption
Two sites can use the same electricity in a year and pay very different capacity charges. The number that actually drives that cost is the peak, not the total.
Read the article →How to Read a One-Line Electricity Bill and Spot Trouble
Most people glance at the total and move on. A handful of specific lines, checked properly, catch most of the genuine problems worth chasing.
Read the article →Why Heat Pumps Often Get Blamed for Problems They Didn't Cause
A heat pump that runs cold, runs constantly, or costs more than expected usually isn't a bad heat pump. It's usually a design, controls or commissioning problem wearing a heat pump's name.
Read the article →Why Facilities Managers and Finance Directors Often Want Opposite Things
Two perfectly reasonable sets of priorities, both correct on their own terms, can pull an energy decision in opposite directions - unless someone's deliberately reconciling them.
Read the article →Zonal Pricing Was Rejected. But Location Still Matters More Than Ever.
Government ruled out splitting Britain into regional electricity prices. The physical reasons the idea existed in the first place haven't gone anywhere.
Read the article →Not Every Battery Is a Box of Lithium. What Is Long-Duration Energy Storage?
Britain is funding storage designed to discharge for far longer than a typical battery. Duration, power, technology and purpose all determine what an asset is actually good for.
Read the article →The Government Is Cutting Electricity Costs for Industry. Who Actually Qualifies?
"Electricity bills cut by up to 25%" is the sort of headline that gets a finance director's attention. The next question is less exciting, and far more valuable: does it apply to us?
Read the article →The Grid Connection Queue Has Been Rebuilt. Does That Mean Your Project Will Connect Sooner?
Britain's grid connection queue held over 700GW of proposed projects - four times what's actually needed. The rulebook has been rewritten. Here's what actually changed.
Read the article →Fixed, Flexible, or Something in Between?
There's no universally 'best' way to buy electricity. The better question isn't which contract type wins - it's what happens if you're wrong.
Read the article →Britain Sometimes Has Too Much Electricity. So Why Are Bills Still So High?
Wind farms get paid to switch off. Wholesale prices go negative. The average business still gets a bill. Here's why a national surplus doesn't mean electricity is free where you are.
Read the article →Bifacial Solar Panels: More Generation, or Just More Marketing?
Bifacial panels can generate from both sides. That doesn't mean every roof should use them - the real value depends on what's actually behind the panel.
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