Our National energy problem is of our own making, that is if we still believe that there is a democratic process that is accountable to our communities and society. Or must we remove these gatekeepers that threaten the future of our lifestyle, communities and natural environment.
Companies realised that lobbying ‘our representatives’, to hijack their vote, was a much cheaper way of building secure and profitable roadmaps for the benefit of shareholder dividends and directors bonuses.
This revolving door gave rise to Neoliberalism and trickle-down economics, to create easy money for investor cartels, banks and speculators at the expense of free market capitalism and therefore innovation. Heaven forbid that disruptive, competitive Entrepreneurs push up and make a difference, using,enterprise that increases wealth, while these offshore rentiers leach off the pie that makes up our GDP.
To cut to the chase. Why would councils facing funding crises not want to invest in community energy projects that would power their towns villages and businesses?
According to Ofgem, the average household in the UK has 2.4 people living in it, and uses 8 kWh of electricity and 33 kWh of gas respectively, per day, 242 kWh or electricity and 1,000 kWh of gas per month, or 2,900 kWh of electricity and 12,000 kWh of gas each year. The average medium-sized business will use 40,000 kWh of electricity and 35,000 kWh of gas per year. Gas could be swapped for electricity or hydrogen.
Ten wind turbines would power a town with 13,790 homes at a cost of under £20 millions, with a one year pay back based on the average energy usage prior to any rises. Year two onwards all that the revenue would be available to each community for local needs and job creating projects. This would be a Preston model on steroids.
Or would you continue to trust our lobbied politicians judgement in their Westminster bubble? They believe we should rely on Fossil fuel companies, with slick advertising campaigns, being given 90p of tax payers money for every £1 they invest. Clearly this will give us expensive,instead of community wealth building green energy?
Don’t believe me, do your own research and stop being taken in by the biggest con since the banksters got away with the great 2008 robbery. Derivatives stood at $75tn then, now its $8.4 quadrillion. In the last four years the same owners of Energy, tech and Pharma have now also taken over our food supply chain. Its easy to create billionaire figure heads if you are printing money and getting the tax-payers to