article_snippet: Britain's Big Six energy firms are set to make £118 per household despite falling wholesale gas and electricity prices .
article_snippet: The average profit that energy firms are making from customers has surged to an all-time high of £118 a household.
article_snippet: This is up by a third on last year and well over double the £49 the companies were making two years ago.
article_snippet: Ofgem Ofgem estimates that the average wholesale cost of gas and electricity is down from £633 per household a year ago to £553 – an £80 drop.
article_snippet: But Ofgem figures for household dual-fuel bills show a lower fall of £60, taking its figures for household dual-fuel bills to an average of £1,295 a year – of which nearly 10 per cent is profit.
article_snippet: The Big Six firms – British Gas, SSE, Npower, E.on, EDF and Scottish Power – have been able to cash in by keeping E.on, EDF and Scottish Power – tariffs high during winter.
article_snippet: The Big Six firms have announced small reductions of around 5 per cent or less, but this will make little difference to household bills.
article_snippet: The apparent profiteering comes despite the fact that last year was one of the warmest on record and total household consumption of gas and electricity was down by 14 per cent on 2013.
article_snippet: A charting showing the decreasing wholesale energy costs and the increasing pre-tax margin for the energy giants .
article_snippet: Citizens Advice said: ‘Low wholesale costs are allowing energy companies to increase profits while barely cutting energy prices.
article_snippet: Lawrence Slade, of the trade body Energy UK, said:
article_snippet: Wholesale gas and electricity costs are expected to be £80 less than they were estimated at a year ago .
highlights_snippet: Wholesale gas and electricity prices are expected to fall over the next year .
  
highlights_snippet: But energy firms stand to make increasing profits, according to Ofgem .
  