The soft but radical energy path
Through data, A.I.-powered platform Tem has a plan to decentralise and redistribute power.
I’M WRITING THIS from a pub in Tottenham, overhearing a first date (Tasmin here👋). They both support the Palestinian state, believe people deserve the same level of care regardless of whether they have committed crimes, and that everything is political.
Perhaps it’s not a surprising conversation for London, but it is a refreshing one for me, fresh off the train from the North East. Everything is political, an argument I admittedly struggled to make to my family during last month’s local elections.
This world is designed to ensure certain people are winners and losers, it’s an architecture decided by regulators and governments and the billion-dollar lobbyists that fund them. As energy prices soar, this is vital to remember. They are high because of the systems that have been set up by people whose only interests are those verdant, infectious bills.
Fossil fuels, which mean gas in the UK, set the price of power — even when the cost of renewables is far lower, which I dug into in my previous piece about Reform UK. It’s time to re-politicise and rewrite this invisible structure of the energy market. This existing system prevents the radical reimagining of how energy is built, priced, and used.
