by Kerstin Sernhed, PhD

Electricity, electricity, electricity
The hub of a modern society
Invisible, inbuilt, but there
Lights are on everywhere

Electricity, electricity, electricity
Convenience with efficiency
I don't want to see where it's made
Just you don't put me in shade

Electricity, electricity, electricity
Service or a commodity?
Am I a customer, household or mode?
Or do you simply see me as load?

Electricity, electricity, electricity
Beware, a polluting utility!
I want the world to be clean
Please colour my electrons green

Editor’s note: This poem is a modified version of “Energy, energy, energy” by Kerstin Sernhed as used in his 2008 Lund University PhD thesis on energy services in Sweden. It was based on "The electricity end-user's poem" published in EEnergy Informer, by Menlo Energy Economics