Customers should not be paying massive energy bills, when energy companies are making windfall profits, said UNISON and GMB, the largest unions in the energy sector today. The unions are calling for an Inquiry into the energy market ahead of the expected windfall profits to be announced by Centrica and British Gas tomorrow (21 February).
Steve Bloomfield, UNISON National Officer for Energy said:
‘It is clear that the UK’s energy market is not operating in the public interest.
It’s a scandal that a growing number of people are suffering from genuine fuel poverty, including many families, elderly and disabled people, when energy companies are making record profits.