Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 16 July 2013.
Terms of Reference
Summary
Glossary
1 Introduction
2 Energy prices
Rising energy prices
Driving factors behind price rises
Wholesale cost of fuel
Costs of supply - transmission and distribution
Costs of energy and climate change policies
Supplier operating costs and profit margins
Communicating reasons for price rises
Government and regulatory action
Energy company action
A failure to communicate
Ensuring a competitive retail market
Market competitiveness
Measuring competitiveness
3 Profits
Energy company profits
Company structure
Increasing transparency of energy company profits
Consolidated Segmental statements
Supply Market Indicators
REMIT
4 Fuel Poverty
Measuring fuel poverty
Current and new definition of fuel poverty
A better definition?
The role of data-sharing
Need for urgent action
Fuel poverty policies
Efficacy of fuel poverty policies
Closure of Warm Front (WF)
The Energy Company Obligation (ECO)
Rural fuel poverty
Use of levies on bills
Ways to protect the fuel-poor from impact of levies
Reinvesting revenues in energy efficiency programmes
Government spend on fuel poverty
Delivery of fuel poverty policies
5 Conclusion
Recommendations
Annex
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of printed written evidence
List of additional written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament
Oral and Written evidence
Tuesday 12 March 2013: Ron Campbell, Chief Policy Analyst, National Energy Action and Mervyn Kohler, Special Adviser, Age UK; Richard Lloyd, Executive Director, Which?, Audrey Gallacher, Director of Energy, Consumer Focus and Anne Pardoe, Energy Policy and Liaison Officer, Citizens Advice
Tuesday 16 April 2013: Tony Cocker, Chief Executive Officer, E.ON, Juliet Davenport, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Good Energy, Jim Poole, Director of B2C, EDF Energy and Alistair Phillips-Davies, Deputy Chief Executive, SSE; Paul Massara, CEO, RWE npower, Ian Peters, Managing Director, Energy, British Gas, Neil Clitheroe, CEO Retail and Generation, ScottishPower and Stephen Fitzpatrick, Managing Director, Ovo Energy
Thursday 9 May 2013: Professor John Hills, London School of Economics, Dr Nick Eyre, University of Oxford and Jan Rosenow, University of Oxford; Gervase MacGregor, Head of Advisory Services, BDO LLP
Tuesday 21 May 2013: Andrew Wright, Interim Chief Executive, Markets, Ofgem and Sarah Harrison, Senior Partner, Sustainable Development, Ofgem; Rt Hon Edward Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Rachael Crisp, Head of Energy Markets and Consumers, DECC and Gareth Baynham-Hughes, Head of Fuel Poverty, DECC
Written Evidence
Additional written evidence
