An obscene salary but if the shareholders let the Chief Exec earn it you can't really blame him for taking it £28 billion turnover company with 20000 employees. Wait and see what the rest of them do over price increases but there is a spineless regulator OFGEM (appointed by Labour) which the Govt have said they will sort out and more importantly a large chunk of the increase are due to arch hypocrite & Champagne Socialist Millipede.
As you didn't spot it Joe I'll copy below my post #45 from this thread :-
HOW ED DEFENDED HIGHER BILLS
In January 2010, he promised to push ahead, saying: ‘Yes, there are upward pressures on energy bills, and that makes life difficult for people, including those in fuel poverty, but it is right that we go down the low-carbon energy route.’