The government should reduce the exposure of fuel-poor households and vulnerable industries to gas prices by enabling them to buy electricity from a “green power pool” filled with low-cost renewables. This would provide a more “economically sustainable and robust” way to provide targeted support to these group’s than other measures so far proposed or adopted, according to a new paper from academics at University College London’s Bartlett Institute of Sustainable Resources.
Green power pool could cut bills for fuel-poor households
