ALMOST three in four manufacturers believe a renewable-led power system is the route to end Britain’s rip-off energy prices, a new survey shows.

Nearly nine in 10 respondents to Make UK and Ecotricity’s poll said they have started or are progressing energy efficiency measures.

About one in seven warned that more increases in energy costs could force them to close, while more than half identify energy costs as their biggest challenge over the coming years.

Make UK chief executive Stephen Phipson said: “Manufacturers are asking for an energy system that allows them to compete, invest and grow in the UK at a time when wider business cost burdens have already increased significantly since 2024.”

Ecotricity founder Dale Vince said that the energy market “absurdity that sets the price of all electricity to be the same as that from gas … prevents Britain’s lower-cost green energy from bringing down energy bills.”