The electricity’s back on after a brief unexpected outage. And I missed it a lot. What must it be like when you can’t pay your bills, or if it’s cold, or if you live somewhere that’s not even been connected up? Where are the ‘hostile actors’ who might be looking for chances to harm a nation’s electricity supply? There’s still a great deal of this precious stuff, here and around the world, that’s made with fossil fuels. What about that? Electric cars are not clean until the electricity that powers them is clean. Likewise hydrogen-powered stuff. ISTR that nearly all hydrogen is made with fossil fuels. Electrolysis will not happen until renewable electricity is abundant and cheap.
Creator God, we thank you for electricity,
something nearly everyone in industrial society relies on.
We thank you for the people who work in the electricity industry,
and who devise and refine ways of generating electricity.
We pray for everyone who can’t get electricity,
who cannot afford it, or who has no supply.
May they be included in our world, we pray.
We pray that very soon,
all electricity will come from renewable sources;
and we pray that you will energise and guide and strengthen
everyone who works to bring this about.