Power and profits

WITH the announcement that energy firms have made massive profits, it’s not hard to understand why customers are so upset.

Take Shell, which proudly boasts its electricity is 100 per cent renewable. If that is so, why has the cost gone up at all?

My renewable solar panels continue to provide me with free electricity during the day, so I would suggest the cost of wind and solar power for Shell has not gone up, either.

KEN SEAGER, Bradwell, Norfolk.

AS EXPECTED, the announcement that Shell and Centrica’s profits have soared has been met with outrage.

Campaigners say it is an insult to millions of hard-pressed bill payers that chief executives and shareholders are creaming off the profits. Don’t they know greed is one of the seven deadly sins?

RICHARD MIKULA, Nottingham.

PART of what we pay for our fuel and gas ends up with the shareholders of Centrica or Shell, and even more goes\ to the Treasury in the form of fuel duty or VAT.

They wouldn’t have this money if prices weren’t so high, so it is an unearned windfall. Time surely for a campaign to get our money back.

PHIL TATE, Chester.

NO MATTER what your provider says, the electricity that arrives in your home’s sockets is generated by a mix of nuclear, solar panels, wind turbines and power stations fuelled by gas, coal and wood pellets.

TERRY CANDLER, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.