The price cap should be on the energy producers (wholesale) as well as the retailers. This is just naked profiteering at the energy producer stage for those th

The price cap should be on the energy producers (wholesale) as well as the retailers. This is just naked profiteering at the energy producer stage for those that aren't using natural gas as their sole energy source. It isn't costing any more to produce electricity from nuclear, coal, hydro and renewable sources and yet these are being priced at the same rate as gas [0]. So, for example, British Gas (BG) and EDF are profiteering massively since they use no, or very little, natural gas. All energy companies in the UK are required to publish their energy source mix. Here for example are the six largest producers[0]. There are many more smaller producers and associated retail suppliers that use them and many are focused on 'green' sources: Nuclear Coal N.Gas Renew Other Non-Gas Market Share[7] EDF[1] 62.1% 1.3% 7.5% 29.0% 0.1% 92.5% 18.52% BG[2] 35.0% 0.0% 0.0% 65.0% 0.0% 100.0% 23.70% (a) EON[3] 5.7% 3.5% 43.5% 43.7% 3.6% 66.5% 14.07% NPOWER[4] 6.9% 4.2% 52.6% 31.9% 4.4% 47.4% 24.07% SCOT PWR[5] 6.0% 4.0% 46.0% 40.0% 4.0% 54.0% 10.00% OVO/SSE[6] 0.0% 0.0% 49.6% 50.4% 0.0% 50.4% 18.50% (b) So these six represent by far the majority. In fact adding up these market shares comes to 108.86%! That is because these companies supply both electricity and gas, sometimes separately, so one customer may get electricity from supplier A and natural gas from supplier B. That customer would be counted twice. (a) British Gas is a trading name of Centrica which was formed when the original British Gas plc was split in a de-merger in 1997. (b) OVO bought SSE in 2020. [0] https://www.energycompanynumbers.co.uk/who-are-the-big-six-energy-suppliers/ https://www.energycompanynumbers.co.uk/who-are-the-big-six-e... [1] https://www.edfenergy.com/fuel-mix https://www.edfenergy.com/fuel-mix [2] https://www.britishgasplus.co.uk/fuel-mix https://www.britishgasplus.co.uk/fuel-mix [3] https://www.eonenergy.com/About-eon/Fuel-Mix https://www.eonenergy.com/About-eon/Fuel-Mix [4] https://npowerbusinesssolutions.com/company/fuel-mix https://npowerbusinesssolutions.com/company/fuel-mix [5] https://www.scottishpower.co.uk/about-us/performance/fuel-mix https://www.scottishpower.co.uk/about-us/performance/fuel-mi... [6] https://sse.co.uk/v3/assets/blt09078e271abddd45/blt04622618eb198f78/614c39b8ee502d0e1337de29/energy_fuel-mix.pdf https://sse.co.uk/v3/assets/blt09078e271abddd45/blt04622618e... [7] https://www.theenergyshop.com/energy-suppliers https://www.theenergyshop.com/energy-suppliers