You were promised
the cheapest energy
in history.
It will never come —
unless you take it.
vivi solari — to live off the sky
Too cheap to meter. That was the promise. But the meter kept running — and the bill kept climbing. The difference today is simple. We have the most disruptive and empowering energy technology since the first windmills ground flour. Solar, batteries, and heat pumps don't just lower costs — they shift ownership. VV Solari is the investigation, the blueprint, and the community for households, farms, and villages ready to take it.
Three books.
One investigation.
The cheapest generation
in history.
The most expensive bills.
Solar is the cheapest electricity ever generated. Wind isn't far behind. Yet household bills doubled in 2022 and never fully came back.
That's not a paradox. It's a design.
Three decades of privatisation, financialisation, and marginal pricing built a system where the cheapest generator never sets your price — the most expensive one does. Always.
The full investigation is in In The Dark. The exit route starts here.
The system isn't broken.
It's working exactly as designed.
Three policy moves over four decades transferred energy from public hands into private extraction machines. Each one was sold as efficiency. Each one raised your bill. The technology to escape existed for years. The permission didn't.
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.
The investigation,
in instalments.
Each dispatch follows the money, unpicks the narrative, and lays out the evidence in plain language. Read them in order or start anywhere — the trail always leads to the same place.
The technology exists.
The maths works. Now you decide.
For the first time since the grid was built, a household can generate, store, and use its own power cheaper than buying it. That's not a forecast. That's today's price list. Three decisions turn your home from a bill into an asset.
The promise was real.
The delivery was stolen.
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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.