BDS-1000 Dossier: British Gas (Centrica plc)

Key Findings

• Economic: Centrica plc acquired Israeli energy-management sensor company Panoramic Power for $60 million in 2015 and, from 2017, ran a corporate venture fund (Centrica Innovations, ~£100m/$140m) reported as “mostly designated for Israel,” which went on to back Israeli startups Driivz, EchoCare and Indegy before Centrica divested Panoramic Power in February 2026.¹²³⁴
• Political: Centrica’s occupational pension fund (the Combined Common Investment Fund) contributed toward a roughly €1 billion Novalpina Capital vehicle that acquired a 70% stake in Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in 2019, with a seat on the fund’s largest-investor committee; the fund’s current NSO-related position after Novalpina’s 2022 dissolution is unconfirmed.⁵
• Digital: Centrica’s confirmed technology relationships with Israeli firms (Panoramic Power, Driivz) are civilian energy-management and EV-charging platforms; the Globes report on the Panoramic Power deal specifically found no government or military customers among the roughly 700 deployment sites in 30 countries at acquisition.¹
• Not found: No public evidence of any British Gas/Centrica contract, product, or service supplied to the Israeli military, intelligence services, or Israeli settlements, and the company does not appear in the OHCHR settlement database, the UN Special Rapporteur’s 2025 complicity report, Who Profits, or AFSC Investigate; British Gas has stated directly that it does “not operate in Areas of Palestinian Authority nor in Israel.”⁶⁷⁸

Target Profile

Key Facts:

• British Gas is corporately and historically distinct from BG Group plc (the former Gaza Marine gas-field licence holder, acquired by Shell in 2016); the two split at the 1997 demerger of British Gas plc.¹³⁹
• Centrica acquired Israeli firm Panoramic Power in 2015 and divested it in February 2026, spanning the entire post-October 2023 war period.¹⁴
• Centrica’s pension fund is linked to NSO Group’s 2019 ownership change via Novalpina Capital; its current exposure is unconfirmed.⁵

Executive Summary

British Gas, the UK retail energy and home-services brand of Centrica plc, presents an Israel/Palestine evidentiary record that is narrow, largely historical, and predominantly commercial-financial rather than operational. The company has stated directly, in response to press inquiry, that it does “not operate in Areas of Palestinian Authority nor in Israel,” and this denial is consistent across all four domain audits: no contract, tender, or procurement relationship with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Prison Service, or Border Police was identified; no retail, service, or franchise presence in Israel or the occupied territories was identified; and the company does not appear in any of the major NGO or UN complicity databases reviewed, including Who Profits, AFSC Investigate, the OHCHR settlement-business database, the November 2025 “Don’t Buy Into Occupation V” report, or UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s June/July 2025 report on the “economy of genocide.”^678141516

The strongest documented vectors are economic and financial rather than military or political. Centrica acquired Israeli energy-sensor company Panoramic Power for $60 million in 2015 and operated it as an Israel-based R&D and product centre within Centrica Business Solutions until its divestment in February 2026.¹⁴ From 2017, Centrica Innovations ran a corporate venture fund reported by contemporaneous press as “mostly designated for Israel,” making further investments in Israeli EV-charging firm Driivz (2018, exited 2021–22), elder-care technology firm EchoCare (2018), and industrial-cybersecurity firm Indegy (2018, exited 2019).^23171819 Separately, and outside Centrica’s direct corporate control, Centrica’s occupational pension fund was reported as one of the largest contributors to a Novalpina Capital private-equity vehicle that in 2019 acquired a 70% stake in Israeli spyware maker NSO Group, with the pension fund securing a seat on the fund’s largest-investor committee.⁵

What is not supported by the evidence is any nexus to Israeli military, security, or settlement activity. All identified Israeli portfolio and subsidiary relationships - Panoramic Power, Driivz, EchoCare, and Indegy - are civilian, commercial technology companies; the Globes report on the Panoramic Power acquisition specifically noted no government or military customers among its roughly 700 global deployment sites.¹ No Centrica board member, executive, or major shareholder is confirmed to hold an IDF, FIDF, or Israeli defence-industry role.¹¹ The historical “British Gas” name’s connection to the Gaza Marine offshore gas field - discovered under a licence held by BG plc/BG Group, which became a wholly separate listed company after the 1997 demerger and was acquired by Shell in 2016 - predates and is legally distinct from the present Centrica-owned British Gas retail brand.¹³²⁰

Two genuine evidence gaps temper an otherwise clean record: Centrica’s 2024–2025 CDP climate disclosures list Israel as an operational jurisdiction and use an Israel-specific grid emissions factor, a discrepancy unreconciled with the company’s explicit denial of Israeli operations and unexplained in any other Centrica disclosure;²¹²²²³ and the current status of the pension fund’s indirect NSO Group exposure, following Novalpina’s 2022 dissolution and a 2025 change of NSO’s controlling ownership, remains unconfirmed.²⁴

Weighed against the four V-domains, the record yields a Business Relationship Score of 196 and a Tier E (Minimal) classification, driven almost entirely by the Economic domain (Panoramic Power, Centrica Innovations, and the NSO-linked pension exposure), with negligible Military, Digital, and Political domain contributions and a zero Military score reflecting the complete absence of defence-sector activity.

Timeline of Relevant Events

Corporate Overview

Centrica plc is a UK-incorporated, London Stock Exchange-listed (FTSE 100) energy and services group headquartered in Windsor, Berkshire, formed via the 1997 demerger of British Gas plc.⁹¹³ “British Gas” is Centrica’s UK retail energy and home-services brand; the “British Gas” name outside the UK, along with the exploration-and-production business that historically held the Gaza Marine licence, belonged to the separately listed BG Group plc, acquired by Shell in 2016 - a distinct corporate lineage from the present-day, Centrica-owned British Gas.⁶²⁰ Centrica’s subsidiaries include British Gas (UK retail), Bord Gáis Energy (Republic of Ireland), Centrica Business Solutions (international industrial energy services), and Centrica Energy (trading); no Centrica subsidiary is confirmed to operate in Israel or the OPT as a going concern following the February 2026 Panoramic Power divestment.³⁶⁹

Centrica’s identified Israel-linked corporate structure consists of: Centrica Innovations, a venture-investment unit (now wound down) that maintained a Tel Aviv office and Israel-focused investment activity from 2017 into 2025 as part of a stated three-hub model (Israel, US, London);²³⁷³⁸ Panoramic Power, an Israeli company (Kfar Saba) acquired in 2015 and held continuously as an Israel-based Centrica Business Solutions development centre until its February 2026 divestment, spanning the entire post-October 2023 period;¹⁴ and portfolio stakes in Driivz and Indegy, both exited by 2021–2022, and EchoCare, whose current relationship status is unconfirmed.²⁸²⁷¹⁹ No confirmed Centrica retail, sales, or franchise operation exists inside Israel or the occupied territories, and the CDP jurisdictional discrepancy noted above (Israel listed as an operational jurisdiction in 2024–2025 climate disclosures) remains unreconciled with this structural picture.²¹²²²³

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of any contract, tender, framework agreement, or memorandum of understanding between Centrica/British Gas and the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Prison Service, or Israel Border Police.⁷³⁹ No public evidence identified of ruggedised, mil-spec, or tactical variants of Centrica products (gas meters, smart-home equipment, pressure regulators, pipeline components) marketed to Israeli security forces, nor of any UK export-licence application, end-user certificate, or Export Control Organisation review tied to such sales.⁶⁹ No public evidence identified of Centrica/British Gas equipment or construction services used in Israeli settlement, separation-barrier, or military-installation construction, nor of any operation in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights.⁷³⁹ No public evidence identified of supply-chain, logistics, or base-services relationships with Israeli defence primes (Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, Israel Military Industries) or with IDF bases and detention facilities.⁷³⁹ Munitions and strategic-platform manufacture is not applicable to Centrica’s corporate purpose as a residential and commercial energy provider.⁹

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

British Gas has stated explicitly, via Politics Home, that it does “not operate in Areas of Palestinian Authority nor in Israel.”⁶ The company is absent from the OHCHR settlement database, the Albanese A/HRC/59/23 report’s named entities, the DBIO V report, the PAX “Companies Arming Israel” report, the SOMO “Powering Injustice” report, Who Profits, and AFSC Investigate.^{3014164041739} No NCP complaint naming Centrica or British Gas appears in the OECD Watch database.⁴²⁴³ Set against this, two gaps are unresolved rather than resolved in the company’s favour: Centrica’s 2024 and 2025 CDP disclosures list Israel as an operational jurisdiction and reference an Israel-specific grid emissions factor, inconsistent with the corporate denial and unexplained by any other disclosure;²¹²²²³ and no Centrica board-level policy review, contract suspension, or public statement in response to the ICJ’s July 2024 advisory opinion or the ICC’s November 2024 arrest warrants was identified.⁶¹⁴ Whether Orpak Systems - an Israeli fuel-automation firm acquired by Driivz’s eventual owner, Vontier, via Gilbarco Veeder-Root, and operating in over 60 countries from Bnei Brak - serves any IDF- or Border Police-adjacent facility is unconfirmed.⁴⁴

Named Entities and Evidence Map

No Centrica board member, executive, or ≥10%-shareholder (Schroders, BlackRock) is confirmed with an IDF board role, FIDF affiliation, or Israeli defence-industry directorship.¹¹¹⁰ Dan Rosenfield (Managing Director, New Business & Net Zero, not a board member) chaired World Jewish Relief, a humanitarian charity, from 2016 to 2020 - not a defence-linked body.¹¹ The British Gas Energy Trust, funded solely by British Gas and having deployed over £230 million on UK fuel poverty since 2004, shows no identified Israel- or OPT-linked recipients.⁴⁵⁴⁶

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Centrica’s confirmed enterprise technology stack - Oracle Cloud HCM, Microsoft 365, Experian Tallyman for debt collection, the Salesforce-based “New Energy Platform,” and the ENSEK “Ignition” billing/quoting SaaS platform, on AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure - contains no confirmed Israeli-origin vendor products.^47484950 No public evidence identified of licensing or integration relationships with Israeli security-technology vendors including Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, Nice Ltd, Verint’s security/Cognyte division, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks, Radware, Imperva, or Checkmarx; a confirmed Verint “Wrap Up Bot” AI deployment belongs to a different UK energy supplier (Utilita), not British Gas.⁵¹ No public evidence identified of Israeli-origin biometric, facial-recognition, or surveillance technology in British Gas’s Hive smart-home hardware, nor of British Gas/Centrica data-centre infrastructure, cloud services, or sovereign-cloud participation (including Project Nimbus) inside Israel; Centrica’s confirmed Israel footprint is the Panoramic Power R&D office in Kfar Saba, not customer-facing infrastructure.¹ Centrica’s confirmed AI/ML deployment (Amazon SageMaker within the Hive product) is a UK/Ireland consumer-facing application with no government or military nexus identified.³⁸

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The Globes report on the Panoramic Power acquisition specifically found no government or military customers among the roughly 700 deployment sites across 30 countries at the time of the 2015 deal.¹ No public evidence identified of British Gas/Centrica in the OHCHR settlement database, the Albanese report, Who Profits, AFSC Investigate, or “Don’t Buy Into Occupation” company lists, and no organised BDS campaign targeting British Gas/Centrica on technology grounds was identified - sector-specific BDS energy campaigns instead target BP, Chevron, and other fossil-fuel majors.^301473916 The evidence limit acknowledged in the underlying audit is that the Albanese-report absence finding relied on secondary summaries rather than a full primary-document search, and Centrica’s Kfar Saba office status beyond 2018 is unconfirmed as of 2026.³⁸¹

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Panoramic Power (Kfar Saba, Israel; founders Dr. David Almagor, Adi Shamir, and CEO Yaniv Vardi; prior investors including Greylock Partners, Israel Cleantech Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures) was integrated into Centrica Business Solutions as an Israel-based development centre from 2015 until its February 2026 divestment.¹ Driivz, an Israeli EV-charging software platform sold to network operators, automakers, and utilities, shows no identified government or military customer relationship.¹⁷¹⁸

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Centrica’s core business - energy retail and home services - involves no importation or distribution of physical Israeli-origin consumer or agricultural goods; the company’s Israel-linked economic activity is confined to corporate-venture technology investment and one acquired-and-divested Israeli subsidiary.⁹ Centrica Innovations, established in 2017 with a roughly £100m/$140m fund contemporaneously described as “mostly designated for Israel,” operated from a Tel Aviv office with Idan Mor as Israel-based investment director.²³³⁸³⁷ Panoramic Power was acquired for $60 million in November 2015 and held as an Israel-based Centrica Business Solutions development/R&D centre - reporting 37 employees as of 31 May 2026 - until its divestment on 9 February 2026 as part of a combined disposal (with Italian, Dutch, and Hungarian units) generating proceeds exceeding £80 million; the specific Panoramic Power buyer was not identified in retrievable coverage.^5243435 Driivz received a £9m/$12m co-investment in 2018 and was exited via Gilbarco Veeder-Root’s December 2021 acquisition (reported ~$200m), later absorbed by Vontier Corporation.¹⁷²⁸²⁹ Indegy received Centrica Innovations participation in an $18m Series B in August 2018 and was acquired by Tenable for $78 million in December 2019, exiting Centrica’s portfolio.²⁶²⁷ EchoCare Technologies received a £25,000 prize (2018) and a further $300,000 Centrica Innovations investment (December 2018); its current relationship status is unconfirmed.¹⁹²⁵ Separately, Centrica’s occupational pension fund (the Combined Common Investment Fund) was reported as one of the largest contributors to a ~€1bn Novalpina Capital vehicle that acquired a 70% stake in Israeli spyware firm NSO Group in 2019, with a seat on the fund’s largest-investor committee.⁵

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Under the audit’s temporal-mitigation standard, the Driivz and Indegy investments were fully exited by 2019 and 2021–22 respectively, predating or closely following the escalation of the Gaza war, and Panoramic Power was fully divested in February 2026.²⁸²⁷⁴ The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s “British Gas (part of Centrica)” profile logs zero allegations and zero response requests.⁸ No public evidence identified of Centrica/British Gas in the OHCHR settlement database (2020, 2023, or September 2025 iterations), the Albanese A/HRC/59/23 report, the Don’t Buy Into Occupation reports, or the Amnesty International UK complicity briefing.^30311416 No public evidence identified of Israel-attributed revenue reporting, Israeli sovereign-bond holdings, or Israel-market growth characterisation in Centrica’s annual reports or investor materials.⁹ Against these mitigating facts, the NSO-linked pension exposure remains an open question: Novalpina Capital dissolved in 2022 amid an internal partner dispute, with Berkeley Research Group taking over the fund’s assets including the NSO stake, and a further change of NSO’s controlling ownership occurred in 2025; no public evidence identified confirming whether Centrica’s pension fund retains, has divested, or has been diluted out of any residual interest.²⁴ The Panoramic Power divestment likewise leaves the buyer’s identity undisclosed, precluding assessment of the successor entity’s own Israel/Palestine profile.⁴

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Panoramic Power (Kfar Saba, founded 2009 by David Almagor and Adi Shamir) - acquired 2015, divested February 2026.¹⁴ Driivz (founded 2012) - investment 2018, exited via Gilbarco Veeder-Root/Vontier 2021–22.¹⁷²⁹ Indegy - investment 2018 alongside Liberty Technology Venture Capital, Shlomo Kramer, and others, exited via Tenable acquisition 2019.²⁶²⁷ EchoCare Technologies (Ness Ziona) - prize and investment 2018, status unconfirmed.¹⁹²⁵ Novalpina Capital / NSO Group - pension-fund limited-partner exposure since 2019, current status unconfirmed following 2022 dissolution and 2025 ownership change.⁵²⁴

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of any Centrica/British Gas corporate statement specifically addressing the Israel-Palestine conflict or the Gaza war. The “British Gas” brand’s historical connection to Gaza Marine runs through BG Group - the internationally listed exploration-and-production entity split from Centrica at the 1997 demerger and acquired by Shell in 2016 - under which a 1999 memorandum with the Palestinian Authority and Consolidated Contractors Company, a September 2000 field discovery, and a politically contested development history (Sharon’s 2001 veto, brief 2002 lifting following UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s encouragement, and 2003 reversal) occurred; this chain of custody is distinct from Centrica’s present-day retail brand.¹³²⁰ No public evidence identified of Centrica/British Gas retail operations, dealership networks, or subsidiary activity in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights.³⁰³¹ No public evidence identified of Centrica leadership roles in pro-Israel or anti-BDS advocacy organisations, of corporate donations to FIDF, JNF/KKL, or settlement organisations, or of Israel-Palestine-specific lobbying activity, despite Centrica’s registered EU Transparency Register and Scotland lobbying disclosures.⁵³⁵⁴ The British Gas Energy Trust charity is confined exclusively to UK fuel-poverty relief.⁴⁵⁴⁶

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Centrica plc has no state-held golden share and no charter provision tying its mission to any state’s geopolitical goals; its top shareholders are mainstream asset managers (BlackRock, Schroders) rather than a controlling state or family interest.⁹¹⁰ No public evidence identified of Centrica/British Gas in the OHCHR settlement database, the Albanese report, or the Al-Haq “Don’t Buy Into Occupation V” report (104 companies).^30311416 No public evidence identified of an organised BDS campaign targeting British Gas/Centrica specifically; identified energy-sector BDS activity instead names BP and Chevron.⁷³⁹ Set against this, the Novalpina/NSO pension-fund exposure - first reported by the Financial Times and covered by multiple outlets in January 2022 - remains a documented, if indirect and currently unresolved, political-economy linkage: Centrica’s pension fund held a seat on the largest-investor committee of a vehicle controlling NSO Group, whose Pegasus spyware was documented by Citizen Lab in 2021 as used against journalists and activists, and its post-2022/post-2025 disposition is unconfirmed.⁵²⁴ Separately, during the February–March 2026 US-Israel-Iran escalation, CEO Chris O’Shea’s personal shareholding rose over £300,000 in a month as wholesale energy prices surged, and O’Shea told the BBC that higher UK bills were “inescapable” - reported by outlets as windfall-profit commentary rather than an official corporate position on the conflict.³³

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Kevin O’Byrne (Chair since December 2024, prior Sainsbury’s/Poundland/B&Q/Dixons Retail executive roles) and Amber Rudd (Non-Executive Director since January 2022, former UK Home Secretary) show no identified Israel-linked defence, settlement, or advocacy ties.^12555611 Novalpina Capital co-investors in the NSO-linked fund included Oregon’s public employee retirement system, Alaska’s permanent fund, and other UK local-government pension funds, situating Centrica’s exposure within a broader institutional-investor pattern rather than a unique relationship.⁵

BDS-1000 Score (V4)

• V_MAX: 2.94 Sum_OTHERS: 1.01
• BRS Score: 196 Tier: E (Minimal)

The score is driven almost entirely by Economic, reflecting the documented but civilian-commercial Panoramic Power acquisition/divestment, the Centrica Innovations Israeli venture-investment program, and the unresolved NSO Group/Novalpina pension-fund exposure; Military contributes zero given the total absence of any military-sector nexus, and Digital and Political remain marginal. Scores derive from a scale-free Impact (I) × Magnitude (M) × Proximity (P) formula per domain, computed strictly from evidence in the four domain audits and fixed through a human vetting pass that reduces or zeroes allegations failing verification - no number in this table has been altered from that vetted output.

Methodology Note

• Every claim in this dossier traces to one of the four domain audits (Military, Digital, Economic, Political); no external or unverified sourcing was introduced.
• Where audits found no supporting evidence after search, this dossier states “No public evidence identified” rather than implying absence-of-evidence is evidence-of-absence.
• Scoring is scale-free: Impact (I) reflects the type of activity documented, Magnitude (M) reflects its scale, and Proximity (P) reflects directness of connection to Israeli military/state objectives - not company size or revenue.
• A temporal-mitigation rule applies: divested or exited operations (Panoramic Power, Driivz, Indegy) are discounted relative to ongoing relationships, though the audits note some spanned the entire post-October 2023 period before divestment.
• Entity attribution follows a no-transitive-guilt standard: BG Group’s historical Gaza Marine role is not attributed to the present Centrica-owned British Gas, and pension-fund limited-partner exposure (NSO/Novalpina) is treated as an indirect, unresolved linkage rather than direct corporate conduct.
• Caveats and unresolved items flagged in the audits - the CDP Israel-jurisdiction discrepancy, the undisclosed Panoramic Power buyer, and the current NSO pension-fund position - are carried forward here as open evidence gaps, not resolved in either direction.

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