Dealing with the energy crisis is today’s top political priority, and the government is preparing to apply a huge and expensive sticking plaster to the energy market, to protect consumers and the economy. On grounds of cost alone, this crisis package is not sustainable. The question therefore arises: what sort of energy market do we want when the plaster is removed?
At some future point, we all hope to live in smart, energy-efficient homes where making the best (and cheapest) use of energy is automatically managed for us and where all energy is green. Sadly, that utopian vision is many years away, so we need to work out what we do between now and then.
