Dividends are, and always will be, an important part of the way modern businesses work but focus should not only be on them.
Huge investment is required on building new power stations to secure future supplies. Let’s put our profits in context – we have 10 power stations (worth about £5 billion) and 10,000 employees supplying more than 6 million customer accounts with gas and electricity. Our profits won’t even pay for one new power station – and the UK needs twenty new ones by 2020 in order to keep the lights on.
