"Our aim must be to greatly reduce our use of fossil fuels, indeed eventually to phase them out."
John Battle MP, Energy Minister.

"Democracy is a false promise if it does not include the power to steer the energy economy."
Daniel Berman and John O’Connor in Who Owns the Sun?

Like much of the global economy, the energy market is plagued by a complex web of acquisitions, mergers and alliances. However, democracy is a false promise if it does not include the power to steer the energy economy. Unless there is intervention to truly ‘green’ the energy market, coupled with the dismantling of transnational energy companies and the devolution of genuine democratic power to local communities, there will be no citizen control of decentralised power and the dream of a new Solar Age will remain just that - a dream.