Retail Reimagined: How Regional Energy Boards Could Deliver a Fair and Flexible Energy System
Supplier-switching is an obstacle to housing decarbonisation, an administrative burden upon fuel poverty relief, and a potential threat to local grid resilience.
Crude Awakening: Averting the Unfolding Energy Crisis by Decoupling the Price of Electricity From Gas
Moving from the wholesale market to a single buyer model can best decouple the price of electricity from gas and protect households from the sharp end of the energy crisis.
The Privatisation Premium and the Case for Public Provision
The privatisation premium — compulsory, elevated costs to consumers for essentials — worsens the affordability crisis. Public ownership is the best way to overcome the drivers of the privatisation premium: the higher cost of capital and coordination frictions generated by privatisation.
Public Power: Towards a New Social Contract for the Cost of Living Crisis
A new low carbon social contract is needed to secure consent for the energy transition; this pamphlet sets out a programme to reduce costs, cut emissions, and deepen security.
The Green Planning Commission is a multi-year initiative to build the next transatlantic progressive agenda. It will convene leading thinkers and actors in policy and politics to design strategies for fair, rapid decarbonization and solutions to the affordability crisis.
Public Coordination of a Just North Sea Transition
The winding down of fossil fuel production in the North Sea is inevitable and necessary. We need public control over these assets to ensure a timely and just transition.
To deliver on its ambitious promises, Great British Energy must take the form of a fully publicly-owned energy company that directly invests in and owns energy assets.
Grid is Good: The Case for Public Ownership of Transmission and Distribution
The public is already paying, and will inevitably pay, for the transformation of the grid to support a decarbonised electricity system. The question is how these costs are distributed and how investment is coordinated. Public ownership can address these urgent challenges.
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