Rearranging the energy furniture

In the United Kingdom energy prices, which for most people means electricity and gas for household consumption, have been rising far faster than the underlying raw material and delivery costs. As a result energy companies are making higher profits than utilities would normally deliver and some people are finding it hard to afford to keep their homes heated to a decent standard. As a result, last winter (which was one of the coldest for many years) 30,000 “excess deaths”, probably due to fuel poverty, happened.

With this situation of course the politicians have something to say and something to do.