Millions of households across the United Kingdom are facing severe financial strain due to relentless increases in energy costs. Heating one's home and keeping the lights on are fundamental human necessities, not luxury commodities.

Yet, under the current regulatory governance, energy suppliers and producers continue to post multi-billion-pound profits while everyday consumers are pushed further into fuel poverty and debt. When wholesale costs and global tensions surge, the burden is immediately shifted onto the public through higher price caps and inflated standing charges. Energy corporations possess more than enough financial reserves to absorb market shocks, but instead, record earnings are prioritised over consumer protection.

Ordinary citizens are being penalised for global instability and systemic regulatory failure.

What We Are Demanding:
A Genuine Price Freeze and Cap Reduction:

Ofgem must use its authority to set a price cap that reflects affordability for ordinary households, halting further hikes that disproportionately hurt low- and middle-income families.

Supplier Profit Absorption:

Implement stricter rules preventing energy suppliers from offloading market volatility entirely onto retail consumers while reporting substantial profit margins.
Scrapping or Drastically Lowering Standing Charges:

End the unfair practice of high daily standing charges, which penalise households even when they actively reduce their energy consumption.
Independent Oversight & Meaningful Accountability:

Reform regulatory oversight to ensure consumer welfare is placed at the centre of market decisions, rather than protecting commercial balance sheets.
Why This Matters:
No family, pensioner, or vulnerable person should ever have to choose between heating and eating. The energy market is broken, and regulatory inaction is directly causing widespread hardship.

Sign this petition to tell OFGEM and the Government that the British public will no longer pay the price for corporate excess and regulatory negligence.

 

Centrica (British Gas owner) £814m adjusted operating profit (£1.42bn adjusted EBITDA)£737m adjusted EBITDA (retail supply EBITDA was £346m) Normalised gas margins after historic spikes; retail earnings supported by price reconciliations.

E.ON SE (E.ON Next) €9.8bn adjusted Group EBITDA €5.4bn adjusted Group EBITDA (€1.9bn net income)Strong regulated electricity network revenues and UK retail efficiency gains.

EDF Group(EDF Energy UK)
€29.3bn Group EBITDA (€8.4bn net income)
Detailed UK interim accounts pending; Group EBITDA down ~10–15% YoY
High French and UK nuclear output offset by falling wholesale wholesale electricity prices.

Iberdrola(ScottishPower owner)
€6.29bn net profit (ScottishPower posted ~£3.15bn operating profit)
€4.34bn net profit (€8.05bn adjusted EBITDA)
Regulated grid upgrades in the UK/US and expanding offshore wind production.
 

Campaign Group Estimates: Analysis compiled by groups such as the End Fuel Poverty Coalition and Uplift estimated that major energy companies operating in the UK generated over £6 billion in profits attributable specifically to their UK operations in the opening half of 2026.