Bulb about to blow

[nowty]

I'd forgotten about the CFD, I was thinking more FITs or the ripple wind turbine which is subsidy free.

[Mr Gus]

Folks, where is Ecotricity in all this "shrinking numbers of supplier choice"

Haven't heard much about them of late since they stepped away from vehicle charging, & i've never understood what their numbers of their own wind turbines amounts too? is this helping them stave off problems?

Will all future companies need to be actual energy producers rather than repackaged movers on of pre-existing energy from central suppliers to act as a buffer? (which will also limit entry point to new companies)

[AE-NMidlands]

Ecotricity could well be OK.
I left them when I twigged that their leccy was deliberately priced amongst the "Big 6" to encourage people to be frugal with it... but all the profit went to one D Vince himself, to help him expand his generating capacity. The extra half a percent interest I got on his retail bond for being a customer didn't match the saving I got by moving to Coop energy.
If he owns all the supply that he is selling to his customers he must be really thrilled at the moment...
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[Mr Gus]

How may turbines / schemes & what output? (i'm still unawares, it gives better insight)

Every time I see something about him its "football"

[Stinsy]

Ecotricity is 100% fail as far as I am concerned.

When I bought my PHEV "IKEA" was a key justification. Our local store is at the very end of electric range but we typically spent enough time in there to fill up again for the journey home. However, never once was the Ecotricity charger at IKEA working according to store employees it hadn't worked for years. I hear this isn't unusual for Ecotricity chargers. Who runs a company like that?

[AE-NMidlands]

Wikipedia starts by saying

Ecotricity is a British energy company based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, specialising in selling green energy to consumers that it primarily generates from its 87.2 megawatt wind power portfolio[2] – the company prefers the term windmill rather than wind turbine.[3] It is built on the principle of heavily reinvesting its profit in building more of its own green energy generation.

It also says

In the past, a substantial proportion of the electricity (25.9% in 2007) sold by Ecotricity to customers came from nuclear sources. This proportion had decreased to 16% by 2010, and 2.6% by 2011

and

Ecotricity also produces solar energy, with its first "sun park" opening in 2011

[Mr Gus]

So, likely 30+ "windmills" now if we call em all 2.4 megawatt hour units atypical of the past 12 years, at a guess, based on no visible map + solar,
ok thanks

I know of one local to me that is theirs no idea as to others, just that he made a big thing of the turbine tower branding stripes.

[AE-NMidlands]

Interesting analyses continue: https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... nst-rivals
says

Bulb chief used government advisory role to ‘brief against’ rivals:
Collapsed supplier used access to ministers to criticise competitors’ green credentials and exaggerate its own
...
The briefing paper, seen by the Guardian and dated January 2021, has infuriated rival energy companies which claim that Bulb Energy was effectively able to use its privileged role at the CSB to gain special access to ministers and “brief against” its rivals. The CSB is made up of senior business figures and led by Severn Trent’s boss, Liv Garfield. It reports to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
...
Other energy companies were invited to give their views on progress towards the UK’s climate goals to the CSB at a later date, in a process moderated by the industry trade body Energy UK.

Bulb briefed the MPs on the plans of nine of its rivals, including Scottish Power and Octopus Energy – but failed to mention their multibillion-pound investments in renewable energy projects vital to meeting the UK’s net zero projects and appeared to criticise the absence of net zero targets.

One senior energy industry source, who asked not to be named, said: “It’s a bit rich for a company which presented itself as a ‘disruptor’, acting for the benefit of their customers, to be taking shots at rivals which invest billions in clean energy while it spends its money on expanding overseas and leaving UK taxpayers in the lurch when the gamble doesn’t pay off.”

Bulb has been accused of greenwashing because it does not invest directly in renewable energy projects such as wind turbines, and relies on controversial green energy certificates and carbon offsetting to market its energy as clean.

It is worth reading the whole article. I suppose this is what you get when there is a pretend market@ the barrow-boys with the best patter or who make the most noise get the sales.

[Mr Gus]

"Wood, 38, who co-founded Bulb in 2015, is still running the company during the administration on a salary believed to be £113,000 – something that has stoked further controversy given that he was the architect of Bulb’s meteoric but heavily loss-making growth"

What a ****