V-MIL Audit: British Gas (Centrica plc)

Audit Phase: V-MIL (Military Forensics) Target Entity: British Gas (Centrica plc), including British Gas Trading Ltd, Centrica Business Solutions, Centrica Innovations, and legacy BG Group lineage Date: May 2026 Basis: Research memo dated May 2026; all factual claims derive exclusively from evidence cited therein.

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Israeli Ministry of Defence & IDF

No public evidence identified of any direct contract between British Gas, Centrica plc, or any Centrica subsidiary and the Israeli Ministry of Defence (IMOD), Israel Defence Forces (IDF), Israel Prison Service, or Israel Border Police. The prior research does not assert any such direct contractual relationship. A Politics Home article ¹ records British Gas stating it “has no involvement in Gaza or Israel”; however, this statement predates Centrica’s Israeli technology investment programme, which commenced in 2015 with the acquisition of Panoramic Power ² and accelerated from 2018 onward ³ ⁴. The statement should accordingly be treated as a dated and narrowly scoped denial rather than a definitive description of the company’s current posture.

No public evidence identified of British Gas or Centrica appearing in SIBAT (Israel’s Defence Export and Defence Cooperation Directorate) listings, Israeli defence exhibition catalogues, or Israeli military procurement registries. No corporate press releases or government announcements from Centrica announce defence cooperation, joint ventures, or formal partnership agreements with Israeli defence entities; Centrica’s Israel-facing public communications are framed as commercial technology investment ⁴ ⁵.

UK Ministry of Defence (Domestic Utility Contracts)

UK government spending transparency publications — specifically the MoD Trade, Industry and Contracts 2021 and 2020 supporting tables ⁶ ⁷ — record payments to “British Gas Trading Ltd” within MoD over-threshold spending data. These entries reflect commodity utility provision (gas and/or electricity supply to MoD estate buildings) and do not constitute security, defence equipment, or operational service contracts. No contract scope or site description in the available data indicates any role beyond standard energy supply to administrative estate.

No public evidence identified of British Gas / Centrica holding direct contracts for defence equipment, weapons-system maintenance, security services, or operational support to UK armed forces beyond commodity energy supply.

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Panoramic Power Acquisition

In November 2015, Centrica acquired Israeli firm Panoramic Power for approximately $60 million ² ⁸. The acquisition was confirmed by the Israeli government trade promotion body iTrade ⁸ and by Globes financial reporting ². Panoramic Power, headquartered in Kfar Saba, Israel, manufactures wireless, self-powered, circuit-level energy monitoring sensors used for facility-level energy management. The company now operates as part of Centrica Business Solutions.

Active Marketing to the Military Sector

Centrica Business Solutions’ website explicitly lists “military” among the sectors it targets for its distributed energy and energy intelligence services ⁹, which are built on Panoramic Power sensor technology. This constitutes documented active marketing of Panoramic Power-derived products to defence customers. The marketed capability — real-time, circuit-level energy consumption monitoring across large facilities — has inherent applicability to critical infrastructure security, base management, and operational continuity planning, although its primary designed purpose is commercial energy efficiency management.

Absence of Confirmed Military Deployment in Primary Sources

The prior research asserts that Panoramic Power sensors have been deployed on a military base. This claim has not been verified against a primary source document. No independently confirmed primary-source evidence of Panoramic Power deployment on any specific Israeli or other military facility has been identified in this audit. The verified position is that Centrica Business Solutions markets the platform to the military sector ⁹; whether specific military deployments have occurred is not established by public evidence.

Personnel Background Notes

The prior research notes that Yaniv Vardi, CEO at the time of Centrica’s acquisition, served in the Israeli Air Force, and attributes an IDF Unit 8200 background to a board-observer associated with the MoreVC fund. These claims are assessed as unverified from primary sources and are noted here for completeness only. Neither claim, even if accurate, constitutes evidence of a supply relationship between Centrica and Israeli defence bodies.

Export Controls

No public evidence identified of export licence applications, end-user certificates, or government export control reviews relating to Panoramic Power technology or any other Centrica product in connection with Israeli defence or security end-users. Panoramic Power sensors are not identified on the UK Strategic Export Control List in a manner that would generate a publicly recorded licence decision.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

Applicability to Centrica

British Gas and Centrica plc are energy retail, distributed energy services, and technology investment businesses, not manufacturers of heavy machinery, construction equipment, or earthmoving vehicles. No public evidence identified of Centrica equipment appearing in NGO, UN, or journalistic investigations concerning use in settlement construction, separation barrier construction, or military base construction in occupied territories.

Centrica Innovations Investment in Driivz

Centrica Innovations led a funding round for Driivz, an Israeli electric vehicle (EV) charging software platform company, confirmed by Centrica’s own press release ¹⁰ and by Globes ¹¹. The round was approximately $11–12 million. Driivz’s platform manages end-to-end EV charging network operations ¹². Centrica’s wider strategic framing of this investment was stated publicly in 2018 ⁴ ¹³ ¹⁴.

Driivz’s Commercial Relationship with Afcon Electric Mobility

Driivz publishes a case study on its website confirming that Afcon Electric Mobility — the EV infrastructure subsidiary of Afcon Holdings — uses the Driivz platform to manage its charging network ¹⁵. Afcon Electric Mobility is a wholly owned subsidiary of Afcon Holdings, an Israeli infrastructure conglomerate.

Who Profits Research Centre documents Afcon Holdings’ occupation-related commercial activities ¹⁶, including:

A NIS 230 million contract awarded to Afcon for construction and maintenance of Israeli Ministry of Defence office buildings ¹⁶.
Operation of EV charging infrastructure in West Bank settlements including Karnei Shomron and Beitar Illit, and in the Golan Heights (Ramot) ¹⁶.
An Afcon security subsidiary that manufactures sensor systems for the separation barrier and military installations ¹⁶.

Inferential Chain and Its Limits

The combination of ¹⁵ and ¹⁶ supports the inference that Driivz software manages charging stations physically located in West Bank settlements and the Golan Heights, since Afcon Electric Mobility operates that infrastructure and Driivz manages Afcon Electric Mobility’s network. However, no document has been identified that directly confirms, by GPS coordinate or site name, that a specific Driivz-managed charger is located at a named settlement address. The geographic scope inference is drawn from the Driivz-Afcon partnership (confirmed by Driivz’s own case study ¹⁵) combined with Who Profits’ documentation of Afcon’s settlement-based EV operations ¹⁶.

Centrica’s relationship to Afcon’s activities is indirect: Centrica Innovations invested in Driivz; Driivz supplies software to Afcon Electric Mobility; Afcon Electric Mobility operates the physical charging infrastructure. No direct contractual or operational relationship between Centrica and Afcon Holdings has been identified in public records.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

Moog Wolverhampton — Lease Document

A court document exhibit filed in Moog UK injunction proceedings in May 2024 ¹⁷ identifies a lease or restrictive covenant involving “Centrica Business Solutions (Generation) Limited” and “Moog Wolverhampton Limited,” with a legacy reference to the “British Gas Corporation” (the pre-privatisation predecessor entity). The existence of this document is consistent with Centrica Business Solutions’ known commercial model of installing onsite energy generation assets — such as combined heat and power (CHP) units and embedded generation — at industrial customers’ sites.

Moog’s Elbit Systems Supply Relationship

Declassified UK published an investigation identifying UK firms supplying Elbit Systems ¹⁸, and Moog is referenced in activist and journalistic reporting in connection with Elbit Systems UK. Elbit Systems UK has been awarded UK MoD contracts, including a £137 million contract for the Future Target Acquisition Solution for British armed forces ¹⁹.

Assessment of the Aggregate Chain

The available evidence supports the following individual links at varying confidence levels:

Centrica Business Solutions had or has an energy generation asset lease at the Moog Wolverhampton site — supported by court exhibit ¹⁷.
Moog Wolverhampton is alleged to supply components to Elbit Systems — asserted in investigative journalism ¹⁸, with the current scope and status of that supply relationship requiring verification.
Elbit Systems UK holds active UK MoD contracts ¹⁹.

The aggregated claim — that Centrica is embedded in a supply chain that terminates in Elbit Systems’ military manufacturing — follows from these links but is inferential rather than directly documented. No single document records Centrica as a supplier to Elbit Systems or to a named Elbit-destined programme. The full text of the Moog lease exhibit ¹⁷ has not been reviewed in this audit; the terms and current operational status of any onsite generation at that facility are therefore partially verified.

Direct Component Supply to Israeli Defence Manufacturers

No public evidence identified of British Gas or Centrica directly supplying components, sub-systems, raw materials, or specialist manufacturing services to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, or Israel Military Industries (IMI).

Joint Development & Co-Production

No public evidence identified of joint development programmes, co-production agreements, technology transfer arrangements, or licensed manufacturing agreements between Centrica and Israeli defence manufacturers.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

UK MoD Energy Supply

British Gas Trading Ltd is recorded in UK government MoD spending transparency data ⁶ ⁷ as a supplier to the Ministry of Defence. These records reflect standard commodity energy (gas and/or electricity) supply to MoD estate facilities. No contract scope, value, or site description has been identified indicating operational military or security services beyond commodity utility supply. Whilst this relationship does mean British Gas provides energy to MoD administrative and logistical facilities, it does not constitute a defence services contract and the relationship is not materially different from British Gas supplying any large commercial estate customer.

Israeli Military Installations

No public evidence identified of British Gas or Centrica holding contracts to provide energy supply, catering, transport, fuel, waste management, facilities maintenance, telecommunications, or other support services to IDF bases, military training facilities, detention centres, or Israeli security installations.

Shipping, Freight & Port Services

No public evidence identified of British Gas or Centrica holding shipping, freight forwarding, or port handling contracts servicing Israeli defence logistics or military cargo.

LNG Supply Chain and Eastern Mediterranean Gas

Centrica entered into a long-term natural gas sale and purchase agreement in 2025 ²⁰, with that agreement confirmed as being with a US counterparty. Centrica holds LNG trading activities, and the Leviathan gas field in Israeli waters is documented as a significant Eastern Mediterranean export source ²¹. The proposition that Centrica purchases LNG cargoes that originate from Israeli gas fields via Egyptian liquefaction terminals is analytically plausible given Centrica’s LNG portfolio and Leviathan’s export role, but Centrica’s Annual Report 2024 financial statements ²² and publicly available LNG portfolio disclosures do not itemise cargo origin at the country level. No document establishes this as a confirmed commercial arrangement.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified.

British Gas and Centrica plc have no known manufacturing operations in small arms, artillery, armoured vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, naval vessels, or lethal platforms of any description.

No public evidence identified of any Centrica role in component supply, sub-system integration, maintenance, or programme participation for Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, F-35, Merkava, Sa’ar-class naval vessels, or any ballistic or cruise missile system.

No public evidence identified of Centrica supplying precursor materials, propellants, energetic materials, or munitions-relevant chemical feedstocks to any defence manufacturer.

No public evidence identified of any export licence application or approval to any jurisdiction for munitions or munitions-related goods by British Gas or Centrica.

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

UK Strategic Export Controls

No public evidence identified of any UK government decision — grant, denial, suspension, or revocation — of an export licence for British Gas or Centrica products to Israeli military, security, or police end-users. Panoramic Power’s circuit-level energy monitoring sensors are not identified on the UK Military List or UK Dual-Use List in a manner that would generate a publicly recorded licence decision. Centrica’s investments in Israeli technology companies (Panoramic Power ², Driivz ¹⁰) are inbound acquisitions and investment rounds, not exports of controlled goods.

Arms Embargo & Sanctions Compliance

No investigations, enforcement actions, or citations identified relating to British Gas or Centrica and compliance with arms embargoes or trade sanctions concerning Israel or any other jurisdiction.

Legal Challenges

No court proceedings, judicial reviews, or legal challenges identified against British Gas, Centrica, or against any government body regarding a defence supply relationship involving Centrica. The Moog UK injunction proceedings ¹⁷ are a commercial property matter; they do not constitute a legal challenge relating to defence supply.

Regulatory Investigations

No regulatory investigations by the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU), Competition and Markets Authority, Financial Conduct Authority, or any overseas equivalent body have been identified in connection with Centrica’s defence or security-adjacent commercial activities.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

Who Profits Research Centre

Who Profits Research Centre ¹⁶ profiles Afcon Holdings — confirmed as a Driivz client ¹⁵ — and documents Afcon’s occupation-related commercial activities including the IMOD HQ construction contract and settlement EV infrastructure. Who Profits does not, based on available training data, maintain a dedicated profile of Centrica or British Gas as a directly listed complicit company in its public database. The Centrica-Driivz-Afcon chain is a second-order connection surfaced by cross-referencing Who Profits’ Afcon profile ¹⁶ with Driivz’s own published case study ¹⁵.

LSESU Palestine Society — Stakes in Settler Colonialism (2025)

The LSESU Palestine Society’s 2025 report ²³ references Centrica in the context of its Israeli technology investment programme. This document is a student union advocacy report and should be treated as civil society commentary rather than a forensic investigation. It does not introduce primary-source evidence beyond what is already captured from corporate and news sources in this audit.

Centrica Pension Fund / NSO Group

In 2022, Sharecast reported that Centrica’s pension fund had invested in NSO Group — the Israeli cyber-surveillance company and developer of Pegasus spyware — via a private equity vehicle ²⁴. NSO Group’s Pegasus platform is classified by Israel’s Ministry of Defence as a weapon and is subject to export licensing as such under Israeli law. The Sharecast report is the sole accessible source in this audit. The identity of the specific private equity fund through which the pension investment was made has not been confirmed from primary sources. The claim is assessed as plausible and has been referenced in multiple outlets but requires verification against the original investigative source — likely a UK national newspaper investigation — before it can be treated as fully established.

Declassified UK — UK Firms Supplying Elbit Systems

Declassified UK ¹⁸ published an investigation identifying UK firms in Elbit Systems’ supply chain. The relevance to Centrica is indirect, mediated through the Moog Wolverhampton lease ¹⁷ described under Supply Chain Integration above, and that connection remains inferential. Centrica is not identified by name in the Declassified UK investigation as a direct Elbit supplier.

Palestine Action

Palestine Action has conducted direct action against Elbit Systems UK sites and associated entities ²⁵. No confirmed Palestine Action operation directed at a British Gas or Centrica facility has been identified in training data. A claimed proximity between parliamentary mentions of Palestine Action and British Gas workers has not been verified and is not reproduced here.

BG Group Legacy — Gaza Marine Gas Field

BG Group (fully acquired by Shell in 2016 ²⁶) held the development licence for the Gaza Marine offshore gas field for a period prior to Shell’s acquisition. Secondary and advocacy sources document that BG Group’s negotiating posture involved orientating gas sales toward Israeli consumers rather than Gaza’s own population ²⁷ ²⁸ ²⁹. These accounts are drawn from advocacy literature and secondary reporting rather than disclosed company documents or government archives; the specific commercial and diplomatic details of BG Group’s Gaza Marine negotiations remain incompletely documented in publicly accessible primary sources. The Gaza Marine field and associated gas-rights questions remain legally and politically unresolved ³⁰ ³¹.

British Gas Corporate Response

No public statements, policy changes, contract terminations, or end-use monitoring commitments by British Gas or Centrica in response to civil society pressure regarding its defence supply chain or Israeli investment activities have been identified. The most recent traceable public statement — the Politics Home item ¹ in which British Gas stated it “has no involvement in Gaza or Israel” — predates the 2015 Panoramic Power acquisition and the 2018 Driivz investment, and cannot be treated as a current or comprehensive policy position.