HRH The Princess of Devon

You are such liars The Climate Change Act passed in 2008 on your watch You implemented Connect & Manage, the rule that means we throw £billions of wind away every year You expanded the CfD scheme last year pushing it to 20 years You decided to do Clean Power 2030 requiring accelerated grid expansion against a backdrop of massive supply chain constraints You promised £300 off bills and gave VAT relief worth c£24 per household in total And now you're just playing with who pays moving costs off bills into taxation. The costs don't go away. Energy doesn't become cheaper as a result

Another investigation is underway at @neso_energy The @DailyMail has been told @Deloitte's investigation "centres on explosive allegations that the National Energy System Operator (NESO) has tried to cover up the struggle to keep the country's lights on" while NESO says it's about procurement practices CEO Fintan Slye is described as hanging on to his job by a thread against a backdrop of "war" between the engineers and the exec... Whistleblowing engineers have apparently been threatened with jail if they speak out which doesn't sound legal if such threats have been made Meanwhile the Board appears to finally be taking an interest in the control room concerns and is going to pay a visit. They seem slow off the mark given concerns first became public in early July This all seems pretty bizarre to me. The article is linking security concerns, procurement and exec job security /pay as well as repeating previous claims about a breakdown in the relationship between the engineers and the exec, something Fintan Slye admitted to when he appeared before the ESNZ Select Committee recently At this point you have to wonder if the exec is doing any work or simply fire-fighting the fallout of various reports and investigations Who even knows what the Board and DESNZ are up to Meanwhile September saw record balancing costs and October managed to be far higher. Some of these costs are inflated by NESO's habit of leaving essential balancing actions to the last minute when they become more expensive NESO insists the lack of blackouts or breaches of the statutory frequency limit means the grid is secure, but that's not the extent of NESO's obligations. It's required to cover the largest loss, something it doesn't appear to have done on 23 June and is not supposed to breach grid constraints, something it already admitted to doing that day At what point will the Secretary of State get a grip on this because it's starting to look like a clown show @Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @harrietc @ColinMoynihanUK @drlukeevans @ashley7fox @TiceRichard @cmackinlay @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @afneil @mattotele @jonathan_leake @julietsamuel @energygovuk @ofgem dailymail.com/news/article-1…

Ouch Maybe @ofgem should investigate the actions of @neso_energy because these costs could be reduced if it didn't leave balancing actions to the last minute Also it should pay closer attention to CCGT maintenance... The fleet is aging as my new report (out on 30 November) shows... This autumn 5 of the 7 CCGTs in the SE were offline at the same time exacerbating the SE constraint particularly when interconnectors traded exports of Scottish wind the grid had no ability to physically deliver Curtailing wind before the DA auction would reduce the risks of that happening