Commenting on a report by the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee of MPs today (29 July 2013), about Ofgem failing to make energy firms more transparent about their profits, Friends of the Earth Energy Campaigner Guy Shrubsole said:

“MPs have hit the nail on the head – more needs to be done to stop Big Six profiteering at the expense of hard-pressed households and the planet.

“The energy companies continue to rake in huge profits while the Government fails to insulate our heat-leaking homes and keeps us hooked on the gas that’s sent our fuel bills spiralling.

“Ministers must set a clean power target to make the big energy firms invest in affordable renewable energy – and open up the market to communities generating their own renewable power from wind and solar schemes.”

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