Eco-conscious Labour donor Dale Vince – who has given the party more than £5 million – has green contracts worth millions with London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s City Hall, it has emerged. The Mail has the story.
Dale Vince’s firm Ecotricity has been paid more than £3.5 million to supply power to the Mayor’s Greater London Authority (GLA) since 2020.
The green industrialist has donated more than £5.5 million to the Labour Party or its politicians in the same period, including to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner.
There is no suggestion of wrongdoing but critics said the revelation may raise eyebrows with taxpayers.
Electoral Commission data show the political donations have been made through Mr Vince’s Ecotricity firm, which supplies “certified vegan” green energy.
Figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws show that Ecotricity has been paid £3.55 million by City Hall since 2020-21.
This includes more than £1.3 million in 2023-24 – during the same period that Mr Vince handed Labour millions for its General Election war chest.
Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf said: “The fact one of Labour’s biggest donors, Dale Vince’s Ecotricity, has been handed £3.5 million of taxpayer money from Sadiq Khan’s Greater London Authority in the last five years will enrage taxpayers.”
Susan Hall, the Conservative leader at the London Assembly, described the revelation as “very interesting” and said she was previously unaware that Mr Vince’s firm supplied power to City Hall.
She added: “I can only assume that the GLA has checked that this is offering us the best value for money but I’m grateful to the Daily Mail for informing me about this so that I can scrutinise it. I will certainly be asking questions about this and will be double checking that Londoners are getting value for money.”
Ecotricity said there is no link between its contract to supply power to the GLA and Mr Vince’s donations to the Labour Party, while City Hall said Sir Sadiq had no involvement in the awarding of the contract.
The firm began supplying 100% of the power to the GLA after Sir Sadiq was elected in 2016.
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Dale Vince is not in any way eco-conscious. He is purely and simply a subsidy farmer – he hoovers up all the green loans, grants, subsidies going and with Milliband in charge there are a lot of them.
How does one supply 100% of electricity from wind and solar when the wind ain’t blowing and the sun ain’t shining?
You don’t!
Move along, nothing to see here…
Corruption. In Khant’s City Hall. Who’d possibly have suspected that?
Bent.
“Mr Vince’s Ecotricity firm, which supplies “certified vegan” green energy.”
I’d like to be given the opportunity to make Dale Vince eat some of his “vegan” electricity. In the interest of protecting consumer rights – natch. I’m not suggesting he’s telling fibs but the customer comes first.
Well at least we now know where Rayner’s property portfolio has come from, or at least part of it.
What on earth is ‘“certified vegan” green energy’??
It brings to mind something made of stale cabbages and puke.
To quote Blackadder, it’s ‘bollocks’
With all those birds and bats slaughtered by wind turbines…. How on earth does ‘vegan’ apply?
A quick AI check yields:
The “vegan” claim is about supply chain ethics, not the physical current you use.
Unless you literally go off-grid with your own renewables, all electrons are indistinguishable once in the grid.
ie, on windless days, large fossil fuel component. Last year, gas 30% of the mix.
Cosy, isnt it..?
evil dance