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the energy supply company that delivers all that, the sort of centricas, octopuses, Scottish powers of this world, they also have costs to cover sort of call centres, the metering services they provide, smart metering.

They also have to cover people who get into debt and can't pay their bills.

So they've got costs, which is about £17 in that hundred.

So that's about one sixth of your energy bill covers their costs.

Then there are some policy costs that the government have as part of the energy bill.

They split into two basic categories.

One of them is subsidies for clean power.

Slightly complicated because some of the clean power contracts are now we consider as part of that energy package I mentioned at the beginning, that £40.

But some of the older subsidies, so the renewable obligation, which was the original big subsidy program for wind and solar power in this country, plus something called the FITs, feed-in tariffs.

So you might remember about 15 years ago, there was a big...

A subsidy program, people putting solar panels on the roof and getting subsidies for them, that sort of had a legacy cost.

And there's the nuclear program.

So Sizewell, which has started construction on Sizewell, a big new nuclear power station, that's also starting to have a cost on bills as well.

So that is the sort of one part of the policy costs.

Then the other part is subsidies.

So there's something called the Warm Homes Discount.

And for a number of, in fact, millions of households who are poor, they're on means-to-benefits or pension credit, they get a subsidy on their injury bill of, I think, about £150 a year.

But that's paid for by everybody else.

So that also adds a little bit to the bill.

So basically, in combination, those two sets of things are another £6 out of the £100.