Allison, removing green levies saves roughly £150/year per household. That's £12.50/month. The bill stays at £1,573. Still horrifying. Still unaffordable. Still killing pensioners. You've moved the needle 9% and called it a solution.
Better idea: USE the green levies to ELIMINATE the bill entirely.
Green levies generate roughly £12 billion/year. Redirect that into:
Solar panels + battery storage on EVERY roof. Every house. Every flat. Every bungalow. Every static caravan. Every park home. Every canal boat. Every houseboat. At SCALE procurement cost.
Not the retail £15,000 the homeowner gets quoted. Bulk purchase: £3,000-4,000 per installation. Government-funded. From the levy that already exists.
And that last part matters. Because every energy scheme says "homes." A static caravan isn't legally a "home." A park home isn't. A canal boat isn't. 120,000+ people living in the most energy-inefficient, hardest-to-heat, most expensive-to-power accommodation in the country EXCLUDED from every scheme because the policy was written for houses and nobody thought about the person paying £150/month on a 16A supply in a single-skin aluminium box.
£12 billion/year = 3 million installations per year. Every dwelling in Britain and I mean EVERY dwelling, not just the ones that fit the legal definition of "home" done in under 10 years. Every one generating its OWN power. Storing it. Using it. The grid becomes a BACKUP not a lifeline.
The result:
The energy bill: effectively ZERO for electricity. Not reduced by £150. ZERO.
The pensioner: warm. Without choosing between heating and eating.
The person in the static caravan: warm. For the first time without dread.
The canal boat family: powered. Without running the engine for three hours.
The grid goes down: nobody dies. The battery keeps the lights on.
The energy company: loses its monopoly. The customer doesn't NEED them.
The green levy: pays for its own abolition. It funds the infrastructure that eliminates the need for the levy.
"Remove green levies" saves £150/year. REDIRECTING green levies saves £1,723/year. Permanently. For every household. Every caravan. Every boat. Forever.
You want to remove the plaster. I want to cure the wound.
builduk.club energy charter. Solar. Batteries. On every roof, every chassis, every deck. Funded by the levy that currently funds nothing useful. The grid as backup. Not as ransom.