The wiring
Not the brochure version.
The demand
Same dependency. Different climate.
The lights flickered.
He told me I was imagining it.
Why you're never going to get cheap power unless you take it.
Same street. Same war. Same winter.
My neighbour was calm.
I was scrambling.
The explosion was under the sea.
The theft was in the wiring.
What I found wasn't a broken system.
It was one working exactly as designed.
Renewables are the cheapest energy ever built.
Your bill is the highest it's ever been.
The problem isn't the fuel.
It's who owns the meter.
A noir investigation into the design of scarcity.
Not the brochure version.
Same dependency. Different climate.
Organisational psychologist. Five-country energy crisis survivor. £230,000 lost. Followed the money.
About Skip →In the Dark is Skip Bowman's investigation into why household electricity bills rose while renewable power became the cheapest electricity ever built. The problem isn't the fuel. It's the market. Renewables were bolted onto a liberalised electricity market, so the costs reached your bill and the savings went to the owners.
The book follows the money from Nord Stream to your meter, across five countries, and makes the case for the exit: households and communities that own their own generation.
Published spring 2027. See what's inside →
The keynote
Renewables were bolted onto a liberalised market, so the costs reached the bill and the savings went to the owners. The talk explains how that happened, and how to reverse it.
Book the talkWhat a viral post about Ørsted gets wrong, and why it matters. The renewables industry doesn't need defending — it needs an honest accounting of who's actually rigging the table.
Trump tweets in Washington. Seconds later, the diesel price at the Bindi Bindi roadhouse ticks up. A $7 billion fiscal event, a 1987 parallel, and the subsidy that nobody is naming.
The Iran war didn't break the energy system. It revealed it. The same architecture that kept your electricity bill high during the cheapest renewable era in history is now transmitting a Middle East war into household budgets across Europe.
Chapter 1 free. Dispatches as new evidence surfaces.
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