Lets imagine a better future
In my previous Blog I showcased LUSH a company that reminds me that it is possible to act ethically as a company and make money too. Imagine if you owned a company that supplied gas and electricity to customers in the UK. How would you run the company? I know what I would do.
Ethical Energy Industries
If I owned an energy company what would I do? How could I provide you with the energy you needed to live and thrive? Is is possible to supply your employer with the energy they need to run a growing business without destroying the planet?
I believe that it is possible. I think we are now at a point in human history where we MUST start acting in an ethical way with regard to our future. Future first and profits second.
How would I start?
First I would lower the price of electricity and gas to the every user.
Second I would remove all energy tariffs and just have one price.
Third I would invest profits into building a renewable energy future.
I would start giving my customers every energy improvement available.
Well you think I’m crazy and my business would fail right? I don’t!
Follow me closely now.
If I lower my prices to all customers I will have more customers.
If I simplify my tariffs then more customers will want to use my services.
Giving away energy improvements includes insulating homes and businesses. Insulating homes and businesses lowers their bills and makes them financially better off. Lowering their consumption means I don’t have to produce as much power.
Giving away energy improvements also includes Solar PV. When I give my customers ways to produce energy they need less of mine and enjoy a better life with their extra savings.
If I get to use their extra energy too then I am increasing the number of energy producers. If I get energy from many smaller providers of energy then no one person or company has total control over the means of production or the sale of energy. There are no monopolies. Many produce the energy and many consume it. I become a facilitator of power and make enough profit to continue the expansion of the business model.
I’m not trying to make a year -on-year3% increase of profit. I am working to save the planet. I am reducing our energy needs and lowering our carbon footprint. I am creating energy in new and totally sustainable ways. I am, in short, acting in an ethical manner about the sourcing of the goods I sell and the ways I help my suppliers. A kind of Lush power company.
Just like Lush, I will turn a profit. Like Lush, I will help people and supply my customers with a great product that they want and will be happy to buy.
Vote With Your Time, With Your Actions. Vote with your £’s.
So your energy company is not like the one I describe? Go find one that is! I make no suggestions here except to say that there are some companies that are more ethical than others. Find the ones that work for you. Demand that they sponsor free energy saving measures that will lower your bill. Tell you MP that you will not pay any more of your money to rip off merchants that charge highway robber prices for the basic necessities of life. Stop paying your bill totally!
When they ask you why you stopped paying – Tell them your tired of being ripped off and told lies. Demand that they lower your price for energy.
I bet that 1 million customers not paying their bills will get some quick action.
David Cameron said that he would change the ECO targets for the energy companies to help you save £50/yr – They immediately stopped funding all energy reduction measures.
But Your Bill Hasn’t Gone Down Has IT!!!