Serious discussion of UK energy policy — generation, the grid, costs, and the politics that drives them.
Britain is remaking its energy system — the largest industrial undertaking in its peacetime history. The decisions being taken now will set the price of heat, light and industry for a generation. Yet there is nowhere serious to discuss them: social media has scale and noise, the specialist lists are closed, and the comment sections are tribal.
The UK Energy Forum is the alternative — an independent venue where the energy argument is conducted in public, on the record, and on its merits. Not a campaign, and not a club for one side of the debate: a forum in the old sense.
Three rules, applied to everyone.
Argue the mechanism, not the party. Positions of every kind are welcome; loyalty oaths of every kind are off-topic.
Link the primary source. Unsourced numbers get challenged, whoever posts them — that is the point of the place.
Strong disagreement is what the Forum is for. Contempt is not.
Get past the headlines. Ask the question you cannot ask anywhere else without being shouted at, and have it answered by people who work on the system itself.
An audience that reads sources, a place to test an argument before it matters, and discussion organised by the system as it actually is: generation, the grid, costs and bills, policy.
Threads built to be cited: claims with sources, disagreement in the open, and a record of who argued what, when. Quote it with a link.
City chapters meet face to face, beginning with the Edinburgh Chapter — a table, not a timeline. More cities as conveners step forward.