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After years of ad hoc interventions, the energy market has devolved into a tangled mess. The government has replaced consumers and suppliers as the real buyer of energy – picking winners and losers through a multitude of overlapping policies – its hand often guided by lobbyists. As a result, the decarbonisation of the energy system has been more expensive than necessary.