Imagine standing at the supermarket till with 1 large jar of coffee and 4 tins of soup in your basket, but the receipt says you have paid for 5 jars of coffee. That infuriating, cheated feeling?  That’s how Ofgem’s pricing setup treats consumers on days like today. Gas prices are being charged for wind and solar generation

Demand:              26.24 GW 10am 28th March 

Wind:                    15.74 GW
Solar:                      5.75 GW 
CCGT (Gas):            2.70 GW

Ofgem was created to protect consumers. So why does every pricing decision seem to favour generators and suppliers instead? When a regulator consistently sides with the industry it’s meant to police, that’s not incompetence — that’s regulatory capture. Ofgem isn’t working for us anymore.

Power generated is in GW and energy stored is in GWh. Power stations create POWER and can run for years. Batteries store ENERGY. So defining storage as 27GW is misleading… is that the power it can supply, for a minute, an hour, or a day? The energy is in fact not defined. But it sounds good.

Storage require to fill the gap assuming no CCGT (gas)

Dunkelflaute Length

4-day event 3,398 GWh £336bn

12-day event 10,195 GWh £1,007bn

Not a realistic option, but such events have happened on multiple occassions since I began monitoring in 2024