Robin Hood Energy Fuel Mix
All energy suppliers are required to provide information about the mix of fuels they use to generate the electricity that they supply to their customers. They also need to disclose the environmental impact of this fuel mix.
This information is known as the Fuel Mix Disclosure and is published annually.
Shown below are Robin Hood Energy’s Fuel Mix Disclosures for the latest reporting year as well as previous years. We will update this page with the latest Fuel Mix data as it becomes available.
Robin Hood Energy Fuel Mix 2019/2020
Robin Hood Energy has yet to publish Fuel Mix data for the 2019/2020 reporting period. Given that Robin Hood Energy has now sold its business to British Gas, we expect this data may not see the light of day.
Robin Hood Energy Fuel Mix 2018/2019
The table below shows the Robin Hood Energy Fuel Mix Disclosure for the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019.
| Energy Source | Robin Hood Energy | UK Average |
|---|---|---|
| Source: BEIS, electricityinfo.org | ||
| Coal | 0.6% | 5.2% |
| Natural gas | 3.8% | 41.4% |
| Nuclear | 1.1% | 18.7% |
| Renewables | 94.3% | 32.8% |
| Other fuels | 0.2% | 1.9% |
| CO2 emissions (g/kWh) | 20 | 208 |
| High-level radioactive waste (g/kWh) | 0.00008 | 0.007 |
After an abrupt U-turn in their energy purchasing strategy, Robin Hood Energy switched from arch polluter to clean energy provider. It’s difficult to say whether this was prompted by pressure from their partners. or just someone in Nottingham Council finally waking up. But the 2 years could not be more different.
Electricity from renewable generation jumped from 2.6% to 94.3% meaning supply from all other sources faded to low single digit percentages. CO2 emissions fell from 55% above the industry average to 90% below. The leopard did indeed change its spots. However, we suspect that by the time this happened, the Renewable Obligation liabilities associated with their previously polluting energy purchases had put in question the viability of the business.
Robin Hood Energy Fuel Mix 2017/2018
The table below shows the Robin Hood Energy Fuel Mix Disclosure for the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018.
| Energy Source | Robin Hood Energy | UK Average |
|---|---|---|
| Source: BEIS, electricityinfo.org | ||
| Coal | 11.8% | 7.64% |
| Natural gas | 62.6% | 41.24% |
| Nuclear | 19.0% | 20.01% |
| Renewables | 2.6% | 29.04% |
| Other fuels | 4.0% | 2.07% |
| CO2 emissions (g/kWh) | 359 | 232 |
| High-level radioactive waste (g/kWh) | No reliable data | 0.007 |
This was the year in which Robin Hood Energy really blew its credentials as a supplier of clean energy. Despite claiming that “as a business we made the conscious decision early on to make all the electricity in our tariffs 100% green”, 2017 was clearly not when that early decision was made. Although they shrank their purchases of highly polluting coal-based electricity, and increased electricity purchases from nuclear generation, what killed it was that their gas-based electricity purchases exploded from 41% to 63%. That left renewables with a teeny-weeny share of only 2.6%; which was less than 10% of the national average.
Robin Hood Energy CO2 emissions for the period were an eye-popping 55% above the industry average. A clean energy supplier? Not at this point.
Robin Hood Energy Fuel Mix 2016/2017
The table below shows the Robin Hood Energy Fuel Mix Disclosure for the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017.
| Energy Source | Robin Hood Energy | UK Average |
|---|---|---|
| Source: BEIS, electricityinfo.org | ||
| Coal | 13.5% | 8.5% |
| Natural gas | 41.4% | 44.1% |
| Nuclear | 11.3% | 21.0% |
| Renewables | 29.4% | 24.2% |
| Other fuels | 4.4% | 2.2% |
| CO2 emissions (g/kWh) | 298 | 249 |
| High-level radioactive waste (g/kWh) | Not given | 0.007 |
This was the first year in which Robin Hood Energy published a Fuel Mix Disclosure. They launched their energy supply business to domestic consumers in September 2015. They were not required to publish data for the part year ending 31 March 2016.
From the get go, Robin Hood Energy was above the average in terms of its carbon emissions – 20% above in fact.
Therefore, although it’s purchases of renewables were running above the industry average, it more than offset this benefit by binging on heavily polluting coal and being light on purchases of electricity produced from nuclear generation.
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