UK businesses are paying some of the highest electricity prices in Europe. That’s not a minor irritant to their bottom lines – it’s a structural cost that eats into margins, makes UK-made goods and services less competitive internationally, and discourages the very investment the government wants to attract, from manufacturing to data centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So why are business energy costs still so high when more than half of Britain’s electricity now comes from renewables? And what would it actually take to bring them down?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this article, we look into the real reason behind high energy costs, and share our recommendations to government<\/a> for bringing them down for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n