Make Clean Energy Cheaper

Why is this important?

It’s been a summer of record heat. Wildfires across Spain and France. Rivers like the Danube and the Rhine dropping to record lows. [1] 

Our governments need to act fast. And there's one thing they could do right now: make electricity cheaper than gas. Electricity is the clean option: it can come from wind and sun. 

When the clean option is the cheap option, we can all switch.

The heat pump instead of the gas boiler. The electric car instead of the petrol one. Dinner cooked on an induction hob instead of a flame. Across Europe, that's how we bring emissions down quickly.

But most governments have it backwards. [2] 

They tax the clean option more heavily than gas. They could choose differently for next year's budget. They're writing it right now and it has to be published by October 15. [3] Once the draft is finished, it's too late.

Denmark and Austria have already cut their electricity tax to the lowest level allowed. [4] If these countries can move, your government can too. But they won't move on their own, they need thousands of people asking for it. 

Will you tell your government to make clean energy cheaper, before they finish writing next year’s budget plans?

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