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Your target
£600,000
The engineers are keeping the lights on. Your job is to keep the applause coming.
Every validated run ranks · one figure · to the pound
Warming up the bulbs…
Ranked runs are checked on the server (event-log validated) for game version m8-pr-eversheds-1. Stage names are chosen by players.
Roll up, roll up
The Ringmasters
The Spoilsport Twins
The Show Pony
Special guests
Backstage · the people actually working
FORECAST REVISED · RESERVE INSTRUCTED · CONSTRAINT ACTIVE · SHIFT HANDOVER…
Behind the curtain
Every screen is a real, sourced figure. Open one for its definition, period and source.
Executive remuneration (audited)
The CEO’s disclosed pay, year by year. Annual and long-term performance awards are shown separately from salary and from National Grid’s retention payment, which sits outside NESO’s reported total.
Latest confirmed period: FY2024-25 (to 31 Mar 2025)
The annual bonus
£134,000
143% of target, equal to 46.5% of salary. The maximum was 65% of salary.
Not to be confused with total remuneration, which was £773,650. Nor with the £156,870 (National Grid performance retention payment), which sat outside that total.
Full breakdown and what it rewarded| Base salary | £288,167 |
|---|---|
| Annual performance award | £134,000 |
| Long-term incentive award | £275,419 |
| Taxable benefits | £18,431 |
| Pension (employer contribution) | £57,633 |
| Total remuneration (audited single figure) | £773,650 |
| Separately disclosed: National Grid performance retention paymentPaid by National Grid plc, directly. Not in the total above. | £156,870 |
What the Remuneration Committee measured, FY2024-25
What happened on the system, FY2024-25 vs FY2023-24
The two sets of numbers measure different things, and neither proves anything about the other.
Balancing, constraints, curtailment
Balancing costs are much less within the system operator’s control than the word “operator” suggests. Network build, weather and gas prices do most of the work. See limitations.
£2.71bn
FY2024-25 · £ million
In FY2024-25 NESO put the rise down to thermal constraints, Scottish network outages and plenty of wind.
£1.96bn
FY2025-26 · £ million
Paying wind farms to stop and gas plants to start, because the wires can't carry the power.
11.1 TWh
FY2025-26 · TWh
13.0% of potential wind output in FY2025-26 was paid to switch off.
13.0%
FY2025-26 · %
Operational outcomes and system notices
Electricity Margin Notices and day-ahead demand forecast accuracy, from Elexon and the NESO Data Portal. Part-year figures are labelled and never compared with full years.
7
FY2026-27 (2026-04-01 to 2026-11-13) · count
1 in FY2024-25, 0 in FY2025-26. Then 7 between 1 Apr 2026 and 13 Nov 2026.
3.34%
FY2026-27 to 2026-11-14 · %
Higher in every complete year since FY2021-22. Rooftop solar doesn't make the job easier.
754 MW
FY2026-27 to 2026-11-14 · MW
0
FY2026-27 (2026-04-01 to 2026-11-13) · count
NESO spending (annual report)
Consultancy, contingent labour, capital investment and the cost of running the organisation, from NESO’s own accounts.
£14.0m
FY2024-25 · £ million
£44.5m
FY2024-25 · £ million
£127m
FY2024-25 · £ million
£507m
FY2024-25 · £ million
Consumer prices and fuel poverty
What households face: Ofgem price-cap rates, typical bills and fuel poverty in England (DESNZ). These are affected by far more than the system operator.
26.32p/kWh
Oct–Dec 2026 · pence per kWh
Comparisons with last quarter are muddied by the VAT change on electricity.
54.83p/day
Oct–Dec 2026 · pence per day
£1k
FY2025-26 · £
9.4%
2025 · %
Falling, according to DESNZ. NESO can't take the credit for this one, and doesn't get the blame.
Evidence, sources, investigations
Every record, its source document, page and machine check. The June–October 2026 timeline separates documented events from reports and unverified claims.
