How the Contracts for Difference Supplier Obligation works, where the Interim Levy Rate and Total Reserve Amount sit on an SME bill, what to assume on 12, 24 and 36-month renewals, and how EII relief changes the maths.
2026-09-30
What the autumn 2026 DUoS publications mean for 2027/28 and 2028/29 charges, with worked pass-through maths for contracts that straddle 1 April 2027, plus the half-hourly checks that flag exposed sites.
2026-09-29
Ofgem's 1 October to 31 December 2026 price cap rose 4% to £1,723 for a typical direct debit household. Here is why it does not cap business supply, what governs SME deemed, out-of-contract and rollover rates instead, how the cap's inputs feed (and fail to feed) winter 2026/27 non-domestic quotes, and a broker script for the renewal call.
2026-09-27
NESO has set the BSUoS fixed tariff for 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027 at £12.49/MWh, down from £15.69/MWh last winter. What it means for half-hourly bills, fixed, pass-through and flex contracts, renewal allowances and a 250 MWh worked example.
2026-09-26
A practical guide for UK brokers and SME half-hourly sites on the demand-side routes open for winter 2026/27: NESO's redesigned Demand Flexibility Service, aggregator-run balancing routes, Capacity Market DSR and supplier turn-down deals, with realistic rates, baseline traps and sign-up deadlines.
2026-09-25
A practical guide for UK brokers: checking MHHS migration status per MPAN, the new data roles that hold the readings, what changes at the meter point once it migrates, and how pre- and post-migration sites should be priced at renewal.
2026-09-22
A practical guide for UK brokers and SMEs on the 2026/27 Capacity Market supplier charge: the November to February 16:00-19:00 peak window, what the T-4 and T-1 clearing prices imply in p/kWh, the levy and reconciliation timetable, and a worked HH example.
2026-09-20
The record TNUoS increase from 1 April 2026 explained for brokers and SMEs: what changed, how the banded fixed residual works for HH and NHH sites, worked examples, and the 2027/28 uplift to build into quotes.
2026-09-18
A practical guide for UK brokers and SMEs on validating commercial energy invoices: the error classes that recur, how to read the industry's 3-5% error claim honestly, and a step-by-step check using half-hourly data.
2026-09-16
A practical guide for UK brokers and SME clients: SECR qualifying thresholds after the Companies Act uplift, converting kWh to tonnes of CO2e using DESNZ factors, the data problems that trip reports up, and what sits beyond SECR.
2026-09-15
A practical guide for UK brokers and SMEs to the Climate Change Levy: the rates in force from April 2026, the rise due in April 2027, who is exempt, how Climate Change Agreements cut the bill, and the checks worth running on client accounts.
2026-09-14
A practical guide for UK brokers and SMEs on reactive power charges: how kVArh is billed against the 33% threshold, how to spot poor power factor in half-hourly data, and how to run the payback sums on correction equipment.
2026-09-13
Annualising three or six months of meter data can overstate or understate a site's usage by a third or more. Here is how seasonality and weather sensitivity distort short data windows, and how much history a UK broker or SME really needs before signing.
2026-09-12
A practical guide for UK brokers and SMEs on why commercial buildings burn power at 3am, how to attribute that load from half-hourly data, and what level of saving is genuinely achievable without putting operations at risk.
2026-09-11
How UK brokers and SMEs should review agreed supply capacity: reading maximum demand from half-hourly data, avoiding power factor errors, understanding TNUoS and DUoS banding effects, and applying to the DNO for a change.
2026-09-10
A practical guide for UK brokers and SMEs to DUoS time bands: why red, amber and green hours vary between distribution regions, which contract types pass the bands through to the invoice, and how to calculate the real value of moving load out of the red window.
2026-09-09
A practical guide for UK brokers and SMEs on DCP161 excess capacity charges: how the penalty rate works, how to measure headroom against agreed supply capacity, and when asking your DNO to change capacity saves or costs money.
2026-09-08
A practical guide for UK energy brokers and the SMEs they advise: how the DESNZ consultation led to Ofgem becoming the TPI regulator, when registration is likely to bite, and how to get records of advice and commission disclosure in order.
2026-09-07
MHHS migration runs to 7 May 2027, with settlement cutover following in July 2027. Here is the timeline, what changes on SME electricity bills and contracts, and how brokers should use half-hourly data.
2026-09-06
A plain-English guide for UK brokers and SMEs: what half-hourly electricity data is, which roles hold it now that MHHS migration is underway, and the practical steps to obtain a usable HH export from a supplier or data service.
2026-09-06