Hahahaha, a couple of million to these companies is chump change. British Gas announced £630m profit this year

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and-markets/article.html?in_article_id=429954&in_page_id=3

E.ON I can imagine make more as they are also in France..(could be wrong)

Maybe its the government who should stop spending stupid amounts of money (100's of millions) on projects which will turn into total disaster: (and instead help people out with tax cuts). Here are some government projects destined for failure on the EPIC scale.

Exhibit A - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/ukgov_uber_database/ (100's of millions)

Exhibit B - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/road_pricing_2_dot_beta/ (couple of billions)

Exhibit C - NHS database project....cant be bothered finding sources but I can imagine that was also a couple of billion.