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Evening Standard
Business
Mark Banham

INSANE: Sse reports increased profits on 24 billion renewable energy pledge | Vintage Vibes

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed SSE investment in the UK energy security plans (PA)

(Picture: PA Wire)

Energy giant SSE today pledged to invest £24 billion in green power over the next decade as it fought off the threat of a windfall tax on bumper profits.

Those profits for the year to March jumped 15% to £1.5 billion, a figure likely to anger customers facing power bills this year of perhaps £2,800.

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