Premium Company Profile: Centrica plc

Centrica's aim is to create a distinctive business model that delivers sustained profitability through the commodity cycle, which it expects to achieve by initiating steps like employing cost cutting measures, streamlining its processes and developing generation assets.

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Highlights

Centrica is involved in securing and delivering energy and offering a range of home and business energy solutions. It operates in the UK, North America, and Continental Europe (Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Norway); as well as North Africa. It is headquartered in Berkshire, the UK.

Centrica, through British Gas, is the biggest energy supplier in Britain's domestic market and largest operator in the installation and maintenance of domestic central heating and gas appliances.

Centrica Energy has a total of 3,420 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity and a further 860 MW of output from long term tolling agreement with the Spalding plant in Lincolnshire. During 2006, Centrica Energy generated 10.5 terawatt-hour (TWh) of electricity compared with 11.6 TWh generated during 2005.

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