Green electricity tariffs are commonplace nowadays. But do they make a difference or are they just a load of greenwash?

The BBC did a good piece on it recently. I have also added my take on it.

Now the TRIAD times and dates for winter 20-21 have been published by National Grid ESO, electricity suppliers will be reconciling all of the contracts that have TRIAD billed ‘as incurred’ rather than built in as a fixed cost. If your consumption pattern has changed or you didn’t respond to a TRIAD alert you could be in for an unpleasant surprise; the opposite could also be the case!

National Grid ESO have confirmed the TRIAD dates for winter 20-21. Check here to see if you responded correctly on all three.

Being within the UKETS (previously EUETS) can be a significant cost to businesses. Whilst we don’t yet know what the UKETS carbon price will be, if it is similar to EU carbon prices every 10,000 tonnes emitted will currently cost businesses c. £400,000 p.a.

But if you are ‘in’ it doesn’t automatically mean that you can never get ‘out’.

The CHP Spark Spread for Summer 2021 has broken through the £22/kWh barrier in recent weeks. This is largely due to increases in the cost of EUETS carbon. Time to lock in a decent operating margin?

Whilst we await the official dates from National Grid (usually around the end of March) data published by Elexon give us a pretty good indication of when the TRIADs will be for season 20-21.

This week is expected to be pretty cold, some are saying it will be the Beast from the East 2.0.

Embedded generators (PV, wind, AD, CHP etc.) have to update their G59 equipment and funding is available to help with the cost of doing it.