Good Energy : signs its largest ever deal for clean power

05.04.2023

Good Energy has signed its largest ever deal to provide clean power to UK homes and businesses - utilising power from one of the world's largest offshore windfarms.

A new contract has been agreed with renewable energy giant Ørsted to source electricity from its Hornsea 1 offshore windfarm in the North Sea.

The three-year deal will provide 110GWh per annum, the most significant in terms of volume in Good Energy's history - and enough for almost 38,000 homes.

Good Energy chief executive Nigel Pocklington said: "We are proud to support the transition to a cleaner and greener future by enabling customers to buy their power from renewable sources.

"We already have contracts with 1,700 independent generators across the country, including solar farms, wind farms and hydroelectric projects, but this is our most significant new agreement since the company was founded more than 20 years ago.

"It demonstrates our commitment to continued growth in the renewable energy market so that we can encourage even more homes and businesses to play their part in tackling climate change."

Good Energy has been sourcing power from Ørsted since 2017, previously from the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm.

The new deal sees the company taking a share of the output from the Hornsea 1 site offshore windfarm instead. Located more than 70 miles off the Yorkshire coast, Hornsea 1 is one of the world's largest windfarms - comprising 174 turbines and covering an area of almost 160 square miles.

Joseph Conlan, Head of Power Origination at Ørsted, said: "Our third agreement with Good Energy is testament to the strong working relationship we have as businesses and speaks to the strong partnership approach we have built. It is great to see this contract expanding and taking power from one of the world's most advanced windfarms and we look forward to future co-operation."

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About Good Energy

Good Energy is a supplier of 100% renewable power and an innovator in energy services. It has long term power purchase agreements with a community of over 1,700 independent UK generators.

Since it was founded 20 years ago, the company has been at the forefront of the charge towards a cleaner, distributed energy system. Its mission is to power a cleaner, greener world and make it simple to generate, share, store, use and travel by clean power. Its ambition is to support one million homes and businesses to cut carbon from their energy and transport used by 2025.

About Ørsted

The Ørsted vision is a world that runs entirely on green energy. Ørsted develops, constructs, and operates offshore and onshore wind farms, solar farms, energy storage facilities, renewable hydrogen and green fuels facilities, and bioenergy plants. Ørsted is recognised on the CDP Climate Change A List as a global leader on climate action and was the first energy company in the world to have its sciencebased net-zero emissions target validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Headquartered in Denmark, Ørsted employs approx. 8,000 people. Ørsted's shares are listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen (Orsted). In 2022, the group's revenue was DKK 132.3 billion (EUR 17.8 billion).