{"id":6346,"date":"2015-03-09T05:46:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T10:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6346"},"modified":"2015-03-09T05:46:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T10:46:39","slug":"with-corporate-energy-were-stuck-in-the-dark-ages-lets-switch-to-public-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6346","title":{"rendered":"With corporate energy, we’re stuck in the dark ages \u2013 let’s switch to public ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"

With corporate energy, we’re stuck in the dark ages \u2013 let’s switch to public ownership<\/a><\/h3>\n

It is clear that Britain has an energy problem. The privatisation and \u2018liberalisation\u2019 of the energy market has left us with six dominant suppliers from which over 90% of us buy our energy.\u00a01 in 10 households<\/a>\u00a0in the UK are in fuel poverty. Confidence in the ability of the biggest energy companies to act in the public interest has almost completely eroded, and the head of Ofgem has identified a\u00a0\u2018deep mistrust in anything the energy companies do or say\u2019<\/a>. The Big Six have faced continued criticism over widening profit margins and a perception that they abuse their dominant market position. Average pre-tax profits are expected to reach\u00a0\u00a3114 per household over the next year<\/a>, despite plummeting oil and gas prices. And we are categorically failing to make the necessary moves towards green sources of energy; just\u00a05.2% of our overall energy consumption<\/a>\u00a0is from renewable sources, one of the lowest in the EU.<\/p>\n

Anyone can see that the system is broken. But to how fix it? What would a new energy paradigm look like? This was the topic of an inspiring workshop event, \u2018Imagining Energy Democracy\u2019, organised and chaired by\u00a0Global Justice Now<\/a>, and attended by a wealth of campaigners and academics. We allowed our minds to wander, to dream, to imagine an energy future not dominated by fossil fuels and large private companies, but a future in which \u2018energy democracy\u2019 had won out against corporate profit and climate destruction.<\/p>\n

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With corporate energy, we’re stuck in the dark ages \u2013 let’s switch to public ownership It is clear that Britain has an energy problem. The privatisation and \u2018liberalisation\u2019 of the energy market has left us with six dominant suppliers from which over 90% of us buy our energy.\u00a01 in 10 households\u00a0in the UK are in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[93,171,263,264,3329,4034],"class_list":["post-6346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-britain","tag-corporations","tag-energy","tag-energy-consumption","tag-profits","tag-public-ownership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6347,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions\/6347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}