Ben Brading

Homes and businesses across Britain are facing a difficult winter. Russia has shut off its natural gas pipelines into Europe to punish the West for providing economic and military support to Ukraine. Britain relies on natural gas to generate electricity at power stations and heat with traditional boilers. There simply isn’t enough gas supply to…

Have you ever wondered how your energy supplier generates the electricity it provides to your home? In 2005 the government introduced new legislation that requires your energy supplier to tell you about the origin of your electricity. There are many different ways to generate electricity, each with distinct environmental consequences. The fuel mix disclosure is…

In April 2022, Jonathan Brearley, the Chief Executive of Ofgem, announced the regulator’s intention to make significant investments in energy infrastructure to develop the flexible energy grid. Here we explain the idea of the flexible energy grid, why this development is essential for decarbonisation and how this will affect the energy supply. We explore the…

The UK is in the grip of the energy crisis. Every day the news is filled with dire warnings about the effect of rising prices on the cost of living. The energy price cap used to be just another obscure Ofgem regulation, but it now sits at the heart of the energy crisis. On 30…

A “home energy tariff” is an agreement between a mains electricity and gas supplier and a home that uses the electricity and gas. Your energy tariff will determine how charges are calculated on your utility bills. Tariffs come in many different flavours; you have ones in which rates rise and fall with energy prices and…

Homes and businesses across the UK enjoy one of the world’s safest water supplies. It’s not something that most people spend a lot of time thinking about, but a lot of work goes into operating the British water infrastructure. British water infrastructure consists of over 400,000 miles of pipes connecting over 50 million properties. Maintaining…