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Wake Up To Money

Wind & Water

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Will Bain gets the latest on South East Water as the Government asks for an Ofwat review.

Elsewhere, the Government's latest renewable energy auction round attracts significant investment and Wikipedia turns 25.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.

0:05.7

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked.

0:12.7

But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes,

0:18.2

The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials

0:22.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan. However, and maybe I'm biased,

0:27.9

it's really all about the traitors uncloked. So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and

0:32.6

podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.

0:39.4

Hello morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money.

0:41.3

The government has awarded contracts for new offshore wind projects

0:44.6

capable of powering up to 12 million homes.

0:48.2

We'll look at what all this means for the makeup of the national energy mix

0:51.8

and what direction costs for companies and us consumers might be heading in.

0:56.7

Also on the programme this morning, we will chat about homes and businesses across Kent and Sussex,

1:02.2

still suffering from major water outages. We'll be speaking to a business that's been affected this week.

1:07.9

And Wikipedia turns 25 today. Once regarded of something not to be relied

1:13.2

upon, does the current information environment or lack thereof perhaps shine a bit of a different

1:17.8

light on the internet mainstay. Wake up to money with Will Bade. Hello morning. Welcome to

1:24.5

Wake Up to Money on Thursday the 15th of January. Just gone 5 o'clock in the morning. We're with you this morning. Great to have your company back on the program. Yes, we're going to be talking through what was an interesting round of allocations for offshore wind projects. You might remember we talked about this a lot on the program. A couple of rounds back where no one bid for these to build these new offshore wind platforms,

1:46.4

a record amount yesterday, but what does that mean in terms of our bills and our mix

1:51.6

and how do we get that energy onto the grid?

1:53.8

We will be chatting about that as we move through the programme.

1:56.1

We'll be hearing about the kind of still ongoing problems with southeast water as well.

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