Greenpeace reaction to Centrica profits announcement

Responding to Centrica’s latest profits announcement, Greenpeace UK’s climate campaigner, Georgia Whitaker, said:

“Centrica is still reaping the billion pound benefits of an energy crisis driven by the war in Ukraine and our dependence on fossil fuels. The energy company has raked in over £7 billion since our energy bills sky-rocketed, and clearly demonstrates the urgent need to shift our energy system away from climate-wrecking gas.

“To deliver on their promises of energy independence and climate leadership, Labour must properly invest in home insulation and clean heating or face leaving households stuck with polluting gas fired boilers and unaffordable energy bills – and Britain dependent on volatile and expensive fossil fuels to heat our homes.

“The government should step in and rapidly implement a proper windfall tax to to stop big polluters like Centrica making obscene profits from bill payers, whilst destroying our planet. Those taxes could then help fund the roll-out of insulation and heat pumps so we can all get off expensive and planet-heating fossil fuels once and for all.