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We are the collective voice of UK citizens suffering from fuel poverty and concerned about energy security and climate change, demanding a publicly-owned energy network run for people not profit.

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  • For people it’s self-evident that goods on which everybody is dependent should belong to the public.

    Wiebke Hansen, Our Hamburg-Our Grid

  • There is a clear and compelling relationship between public ownership and the ability of communities to get off dirty energy.

    Naomi Klein, writer

  • At its heart privatisation in Britain was never about selling public networks but about selling the rights to tax those who are obliged to use them.

    James Meek, writer

  • 68% of the public want the energy companies to be publicly run. Whether we need local renewable energy or a national drive to reduce fuel poverty, it doesn’t make sense for our future to be dictated by Big Six profits

    Cat Hobbs, We Own It

  • A publicly owned energy sector would be far cheaper than the existing privatised regime, because governments can borrow at much lower interest rates. Revenues from energy would then go to the public purse rather than private profit.

    Professor Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow

  • We all need to reduce our energy consumption, and there will never be a true incentive for this to happen as long as big business is allowed to continue to profit from selling it to us.

    Ellie Harrison, campaign founder

  • We can’t just fight fires and win incremental gains, we need systemic change. The energy we use, its source, its ownership and its distribution needs to come under democratic control, and it needs to be clean and renewable.

    Ewa Jasiewicz, Reclaim the Power

  • Privatisation has delivered… a system in which train operators and energy firms compete not on service – but on how many tariffs they can bamboozle customers with.

    Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian

  • In the screwy logic of Britain’s privatised energy sector, the public assumes the risk while the corporations get to scoop the profits.

    Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian

  • For-profit energy doesn’t work: thousands of people die every winter whilst companies make billions. We need affordable, sustainable and public and community owned energy now.

    Clare Welton, Fuel Poverty Action

  • Energy supply and environmental issues should not be left in the hands of private for-profit interests.

    Ralf Gauger, anti-nuclear activist

  • An active role for government and public sector utilities is thus a far more important condition for developing renewable energy than any expensive system of public subsidies for markets or private investors.

    Professor David Hall, University of Greenwich

  • Rather than letting us be held to ransom by the Big Six bullies, let’s take energy under the democratic control of the British people and make sure it works for the interests of all of us, not the money-grabbing shareholders.

    Owen Jones, writer

  • Citizens [must] take back control over electricity generation so that the switch to renewables can be made without delay, while any profits generated go not to shareholders but back into supporting hungry public services.

    Naomi Klein, writer

  • Energy connects us to communities all over the world. We share a common climate, and to safeguard it, we need to re-common what’s ours – water, air, land, food, our time and labour and freedom of movement.

    Ewa Jasiewicz, Reclaim the Power

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Power For The People is coordinated from Glasgow by Ellie Harrison, with the help of a small network of volunteers around the UK.
The campaign operates as a ‘non-charitable campaigning body’ and so is free to carry out political activity and act as a pressure group.
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