Today, we’re sharing some important news about OVO.

Thanks for posting the article ​@Firedog - interesting read. Hopefully the acquisition, should it go ahead, will bring opportunity and security.

I’ve just seen this on Facebook:

Regulatory approval and next steps

The transaction is subject to approval by the regulatory authorities, with clearance expected in the second half of 2026. Until closing is achieved, E.ON and OVO will operate as two fully independent businesses.

On completion of E.ON’s acquisition of OVO Energy, E.ON will continue the existing energy intelligence platform licence agreement with Kaluza in respect of OVO’s customer base. Kaluza simplifies energy billing, reduces cost to serve and enables faster product innovation to support the energy transition. The parties will also evaluate the potential adoption of Kaluza across the wider E.ON group outside of the UK.

Thanks for sharing ​@HangNail999 - it’ll be interesting to see how this progresses following approval.

Those are bold statements, and I wonder if they can be substantiated. I’m not sure just when Kaluza’s Orion billing system was first introduced, but it’s more than six years since my account was transferred from Apollo. Since then, we heard that the years of delay in making smart meters available to customers with THTC systems in Scotland were a result of limitations in the billing system. It’s several years since we were told that the ability to reverse a dual-rate>single-rate transition for smart Economy 7 customers would become a reality within a few months, but we’re still waiting. So much for simplified billing and product innovation. 

Other large electricity retailers have long since introduced attractive and competitive Time of Use tariffs based on half-hourly usage data rather than register readings. OVO’s (and, by derivation, Kaluza’s) failure to innovate in this direction will undoubtedly have caused many customers to abandon OVO for suppliers with more advanced and appropriate offerings. 

I have no way of comparing OVO’s billing system to any other, but I have watched OVO introduce variously hare-brained schemes only to shoot themselves in the foot by abandoning them again later. There have been few signs for the casual observer of ‘faster product innovation’.

Of course, it doesn’t help that the term Kaluza means different things to different people. 

Now you’ve made me look that up … Polish for puddle !! 🤭

So it is! You learn a little something every day ...

Not quite correct.
Polish for puddle is kałuża. 🤓

If we pedants delve a little deeper, we find Wikipedia´s description with appropriate illustrations:
 

Not too flattering a metaphor for an innovative software company in today’s Britain. 

Can we call a halt to this tangential excursion, please?

I don't think that is pedantry but more like curiosity but that has been known to be fatal for felines.

Is there a reason why I received 16 emails about new comments in this thread, all of them today at 1:35pm? The newest comment here was posted seven days ago. I have realised that email notifications from the forum have it’s own sense of time. 

Same here!

Apolgies ​@costeek ​@HangNail999 ,

What’s happened is we’ve merged multiple duplicate threads into one main thread (this one) - so if you’ve received notifications its likely that you’ve interacted with this thread before. 

If you head to the top of this article you should see an ‘unsubscribe’ option at the bottom of the article, which should stop you from receiving further notifications of any changes on an article you’ve interacted with historically. 

Thanks,

That makes sense, thank you for explaining ​@Bradley_OVO!

Up to a point, Lord Copper. Merging threads often leads to individual posts losing their context, because the merged thread is arranged so all posts, wherever they came from, are in chronological order. It doesn’t matter that much in this thread (although Pte Fraser’s response to LCpl Jones is now totally divorced from its parent), but it could easily lead to misunderstandings. It only really works if everyone makes a point of quoting what he’s replying to.

Not sure I got your point ​@Firedog. I understand what you mean, but how it relates to my question about receiving 16 emails? Bradley explained me the reason. And that made sense to me. 

OK, sorry about that. I’ve edited my post to remove the confusion, I hope 🙂