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Here’s what publicly owned energy would actually cost – and why the stockbrokers got it wrong

Renationalising the UK's energy system would pay for itself in ten years or less.

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Loadmaster (David R. Tribble)

David Hall is a visiting professor at the Public Services International Research Unit of the University of Greenwich. He is a We Own It advisor and will be speaking at Own the Future: Public ownership in the 21st century on Saturday 7th May.

A substantial majority of people want to see the UK’s electricity and gas services in public ownership. We think that the private companies are charging us far too much; we want to move much faster towards generating electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar; and we want the whole system to be transparent and accountable to the public instead of shrouded in corporate secrecy and double-speak.