March 14 — Profit margins on services run as high as 40 percent, compared to 16 percent on energy sales, Iain Conn, group chief executive of British-owned Centrica, said during a panel on energy trends at CERAWeek by IHS Markit. Centrica owns Direct Energy, the third biggest seller of electricity in Texas.
— Houston Chronicle
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