CENTRICA PLC
ActiveKey figures
CENTRICA PLC files its accounts at Companies House on paper. The figures here are for the whole group, taken from its annual financial report in the structured ESEF format (published on the FCA National Storage Mechanism, collected by filings.xbrl.org).
Ratios
2025Sector comparison
SIC 35110Where the company stands among the 10,500 active companies whose first SIC code is 35110 (Production of electricity).
- ORSTED POWER (UK) LIMITED£5.7bn
- EDF ENERGY NUCLEAR GENERATION LIMITED£4.1bn
- CENTRICA PLC£3.5bn
- EDF ENERGY LIMITED£2.5bn
- DRAX POWER LIMITED£2.4bn
- RWE GENERATION UK PLC£2.1bn
- RWE RENEWABLES UK SWINDON LIMITED£1.7bn
- VATTENFALL WIND POWER LTD£1.7bn
- LIGHTSOURCE TITAN LIMITED£1.5bn
- EDF ENERGY NUCLEAR GENERATION GROUP LIMITED£993m
Positions are approximate. Figures come from each company's latest accounts; money and employee figures are compared only with companies that filed accounts in pounds for a period ending in the last two and a half years and are not dormant, so those groups are smaller than 10,500. The line on each bar marks the median.
Summary: CENTRICA PLC
What kind of company is it?
CENTRICA PLC is a public limited company registered with Companies House under company number 03033654. It was incorporated on 16 Mar 1995. Its status is active. The registered office is in Berkshire (SL4). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is production of electricity (35110), distribution of electricity (35130), manufacture of gas (35210), distribution of gaseous fuels through mains (35220).
How is the company doing financially?
The latest accounts in the database are for 2025 (period ending 31 Dec 2025); the company files group accounts. Loss for the year was £51,000,000. Net assets were £3,496,000,000, down 27.3% on the previous year. Cash at bank and in hand was £4,307,000,000. Total assets were £15,415,000,000 and total liabilities £11,919,000,000. Figures are available for 6 financial years (2020–2025).
How does it compare with similar companies?
Compared with 10,500 active companies whose first SIC code is 35110: By net assets it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £26,000). By total assets it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £774,149). By cash it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £85,066). It is older than 99% of them (median age 8.5 years).
Has it received government grants?
It is recorded as the recipient of 3 central government grants worth £423.3k, mainly from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
What do public registers and reports show?
It appears on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee, Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker). HMRC lists it as an importer of goods, mainly electrical equipment, machinery, mineral fuels and oils. HMRC lists it as an exporter of goods, mainly machinery, electrical equipment, optical, medical and measuring instruments. In its latest payment practices report it took an average of 54 days to pay suppliers, and 4% of invoices were not paid within agreed terms. Its gender pay gap report for 2025/26 shows median hourly pay for women 18.6% lower than for men. It has modern slavery statements on the government registry for 6 years.
Who runs and controls the company?
3 of 11 registered charges are outstanding.
When are its next filings due?
The next accounts are due by 30 Jun 2027. The next confirmation statement is due by 15 Feb 2027.
Dividends
from the accountsDividends paid in the financial year: £237,000,000.
Filed accounts2020–2025
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | 14,744,000,000 | 23,741,000,000 | 26,458,000,000 | — | — |
| Profit for the year | 1,173,000,000 | -636,000,000 | 4,040,000,000 | 1,365,000,000 | -51,000,000 |
| Cash at bank and in hand | 5,060,000,000 | 4,842,000,000 | 6,443,000,000 | 6,338,000,000 | 4,307,000,000 |
| Total assets | 27,086,000,000 | 29,038,000,000 | 21,366,000,000 | 18,733,000,000 | 15,415,000,000 |
| Total liabilities | 24,336,000,000 | 27,758,000,000 | 17,133,000,000 | 13,921,000,000 | 11,919,000,000 |
| Net assets / total equity | 2,750,000,000 | 1,280,000,000 | 4,233,000,000 | 4,812,000,000 | 3,496,000,000 |
| Dividends paid | — | 59,000,000 | 186,000,000 | 219,000,000 | 237,000,000 |
A dash (—) means no accounts were filed for that year or the item is not in the accounts; 0 is a zero stated in the accounts. Small companies usually file only a balance sheet, so the profit and loss account is often missing.
Government grants
3 grantsCENTRICA PLC is recorded as the recipient of 3 central government grants since 2022, together worth £423.3k.
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- 2 grants · £405k
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- 1 grant · £18.3k
- Flexibility Innovation Programme - Interoperable Demand Side Response - Stream 1Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £18,305
- Flexibility Innovation Programme - Interoperable Demand Side Response - Stream 1Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · £393,660
- Flexibility Innovation Programme - Interoperable Demand Side Response - Stream 1Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · £11,361
From the Government Grants Register published by the Cabinet Office (financial years 2016/17 onwards, Open Government Licence v3.0). It covers grants from central government departments and their agencies where the register states the recipient's company number and the recipient name matches this company; grants from local authorities, lottery distributors and devolved governments are not included.
Statutory reporting
- Average time taken to pay invoices
- 54 days
- Invoices not paid within agreed terms
- 4%
- Standard payment terms
- 28–60 days
- Member of a payment code
- No
- Within 30 days 28%
- 31 to 60 days 68%
- After 60 days 4%
Earlier periods (7)
- Period ending
- Days to pay
- Within 30 days
- Late
- 31 Dec 2025
- 46
- 30%
- 7%
- 30 Jun 2025
- 49
- 28%
- 2%
- 31 Dec 2024
- 47
- 32%
- 5%
- 30 Jun 2024
- 45
- 29%
- 5%
- 31 Dec 2023
- 45
- 29%
- 5%
- 30 Jun 2023
- 44
- 31%
- 11%
- 31 Dec 2022
- 44
- 30%
- 11%
- Median hourly pay
- women 18.6% lower
- Mean hourly pay
- women 25.5% lower
- Median bonus pay
- women 17.1% lower
- Employer size
- 1000 to 4999 employees
Earlier years (8)
- Year
- Median hourly pay
- Mean hourly pay
- 2024/25
- women 18.6% lower
- women 30.1% lower
- 2023/24
- women 11.7% lower
- women 29.9% lower
- 2022/23
- women 12.8% lower
- women 22.8% lower
- 2021/22
- women 6.5% lower
- women 25.3% lower
- 2020/21
- women 15.3% lower
- women 23.8% lower
- 2019/20
- women 17% lower
- women 29.9% lower
- 2018/19
- women 13.2% lower
- women 19.5% lower
- 2017/18
- women 12% lower
- women 16.6% lower
A positive gap means women's average hourly pay is lower than men's across the whole employer; it is not a comparison of pay for the same work. View on the Gender pay gap service
- 2026
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement
- 2025
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement
- 2024
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement
Earlier years (3)
- 2023
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement
- 2022
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement
- 2021
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement
Figures the company reported itself to the government's Check payment practices service, Gender pay gap service and Modern slavery statement registry (Open Government Licence v3.0). Only large companies and employers with 250 or more staff have to report, so most companies have nothing here.
Registers and licences
- Licence type and rating
- Temporary Worker (A rating), Worker (A rating)
- Routes
- Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee, Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker
On the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, which lists organisations licensed to sponsor workers from overseas.
Listed by HMRC as an importer of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: electrical equipment, machinery, mineral fuels and oils, optical, medical and measuring instruments and plastics.
Listed by HMRC as an exporter of goods in 9 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: machinery, electrical equipment, optical, medical and measuring instruments, plastics and tools and cutlery.
From HMRC's monthly lists of importers and exporters. Traders can ask to be left off the lists, so absence does not mean a company does not trade.
Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Care Quality Commission, Home Office and HM Revenue & Customs, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Entries marked ‡ come from lists that do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name.
History
7 events- Financial year 2025 endedAccounts: net assets £3.5bn
- Financial year 2024 endedAccounts: net assets £4.8bn
- Financial year 2023 endedAccounts: turnover £26.5bn, net assets £4.2bn
- Financial year 2022 endedAccounts: turnover £23.7bn, net assets £1.3bn
- Financial year 2021 endedAccounts: turnover £14.7bn, net assets £2.8bn
- Financial year 2020 endedAccounts: turnover £12.2bn, net assets £1.4bn
- Company incorporatedPublic limited company
Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database. Former persons with significant control are not listed.