We’re proud to be a British business investing billions to help fuel the recovery. So far this year we've invested the equivalent of £4.5m a day in Britain and Ireland – that makes us one of the biggest investors in the infrastructure of the UK.
We want to be here investing, employing people and paying tax for the long term. What we need is clear political consensus on energy over the long term, in particular on what investment needs to be brought forward and at what pace, where it should come from and how it will all be paid for.
Steps taken this week will help cut bills in the short term and keep them lower for longer and that's a good start, but at the same time the Government wants massive investment in new infrastructure, which will impact on customers' bills in the end.
So we need to ensure that all this is paid for in the right way. Moving policy costs into taxation and off bills, as the Government has done with the Warm Home Discount, is the right thing to do because it means the poorest will pay less. So let’s make the whole system fairer by moving ECO and other important, well-intentioned schemes into taxation.