The Investigation Opens

The cheapest energy
in history.
So why did your
bill explode?

vivi solari — to live on sunlight

A forty-year time bomb. It detonated in 2022. This is the investigation into what actually happened — and the household decisions that end the trap: electrify, own, and finance at mortgage rates.

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The Trilogy
Book I In The Dark — 2025
Book II Grow2Zero
Book III Sky Farming
Exhibit A

The explosion was real.
The crisis was older.

Nord Stream blew in September 2022. The world had its villain. Its cause. Its explanation.

Except the bills were already climbing before the pipes blew. The explosion didn't create the crisis — it destroyed the escape route. The trap was set decades earlier and sold as "efficiency."

Denmark weathered the same winter very differently to Britain. Same continent. Same physics. A different balance sheet. That difference has a name. It's called ownership.

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Average UK bill doubled2×
European emergency spend€800B
Shell profit, 2022£40B
Extra cost per UK household£2,100
UK crisis spend (% GDP)3–4%
Denmark crisis spend (% GDP)0.5%
Exhibit B — How the Con Works

Ownership shifted. Risk shifted.
Bills went up. Every time.

This didn't happen by accident. Three policy moves transferred energy infrastructure from public hands into private extraction machines. Each transfer was sold as efficiency. Each one raised your bill.

1985
Privatisation
Public assets sold. Shareholders installed. Profit motive replaces public service.
1990s
Financialisation
Energy becomes a trading instrument. Complexity installed deliberately.
Ongoing
Extraction
Marginal pricing. Captive consumers. The Coldplay mechanism.
Result
Your Bill
Pay for three. Get one. Always.

Imagine everyone at a Coldplay concert paying £500 — because one desperate latecomer bid that amount for the last ticket.

That's marginal pricing. Gas sets the price for all electricity — even when wind and solar generate for free. Everyone pays the most expensive generator. Always. That's not physics. That's policy.

Field Dispatches

The investigation
from the desk.

Short films. Evidence in plain language. Each dispatch follows the money, challenges the narrative, and shows you what the system doesn't want you to see.

The investigator's desk — journal, iPad showing In the Dark, vintage LIFE magazine, barometer clock
Dispatch 001
The Clock and the Magazine
February 22, 1954 — the day LIFE ran the polio vaccine story. Seventy-two years later, the same question: who controls the breakthrough, and who pays for the delay?
Coming Soon
Dispatch 002
The Coldplay Ticket
Why you pay gas prices for sunshine. The pricing con — explained in under four minutes.
In Production
Dispatch 003
Your Boiler Is a Hostage
The exit window most people miss. What happens when you electrify heat — and what it costs to wait.
In Production
Dispatch 004
Mortgage-Rate Freedom
The cheapest electricity in history — and the one financial trick that makes it yours.
In Production
The Exit

The trap has a door.
Here's where it is.

The difference between captive consumer and free household is not ideology. It's timing. Three decisions, made at the right moment, turn your home from a bill into an asset.

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Your Boiler
The gas boiler is the primary weapon. When it dies — or before — is your exit window. Electrify heat and you cut the hostage mechanism at the root.
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Your Roof
Solar plus battery is the first time in decades you can set your own price. Not the other way around. That's not green ideology. That's leverage.
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Your Finance
The secret isn't smarter panels. It's cheaper capital. Mortgage-rate finance turns the same hardware into the cheapest electricity in history.
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The Verdict

You're not crazy.
You were set up.

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Skip Bowman
Organisational Psychologist · Author · Accidental Energy Investigator

Australian by birth, European by decision. I didn't write this because I'm an energy expert. I wrote it because I lost £230,000 when my French gîte business collapsed during the 2022 crisis — and when I followed the money to find out why, I found a decades-long con hiding in plain sight.

I'm a psychologist by training. I know how systems trap people. This one is textbook.