Today 50 Greenpeace activists locked themselves to the doors of the headquarters of British Gas owner Centrica, used the world's biggest energy bill to block the road leading to the car park and occupied an office inside.
Centrica has invested the least in renewable energy sources of the big six utilities while making the biggest profits from customers. Its terrible record of energy investment is keeping hard-pressed households and businesses hooked on burning expensive, imported gas. Yet the energy giant wants us to become even more dependent on gas, at the expense of renewable energy.
Most experts expect the price of gas to rise, while the cost of energy from clean sources such as wind will continue to fall. If Centrica puts its profits into expanding renewable energy and increasing energy efficiency in our homes and offices, it can end the price hikes and cut CO2 emissions.
Tell Centrica's CEO Sam Laidlaw it's time to end the energy rip-off; get off expensive, imported gas and invest in clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
