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    Big six energy firms accused of 'cold-blooded profiteering'

    Doubling of retail profit margins prompts call for radical overhaul of regulation

    The industry regulator Ofgem, which produced the estimates, said profits per household

    would reach £100 over the next 12 months.

    Other new figures obtained from British Gas, EDF and the four other suppliers showed

    their profit margin from power generation - a separate part of the business - averaged

    more than 24% in 2011. They are believed to have risen since.

    The escalating earnings were condemned by fuel poverty campaigners, rival energy

    companies and the shadow energy secretary, Caroline Flint.

    They have led to further calls for the gas and electricity market to be reformed to break

    the stranglehold the big six have on supply, and will increase pressure on energy

    executives who are due to appear before parliament's energy and climate change

    committee on Tuesday as part of an inquiry under the title "energy prices, profits and poverty".

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