Europe produces more and more renewable electricity that costs almost nothing to generate, yet our energy bills keep rising. Why? Grace Blakeley explains why the European Union's current electricity market system is broken, why it remains vulnerable to repeated energy crises, and how consumers bear the costs while large energy companies reap windfall profits. She shows why we need a democratic, publicly owned energy system to deliver affordable and sustainable energy for all — even if achieving it would require a major political shift that will anger the rich.