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CEENRG Fellow and Professor of Business Economics at Cambridge Judge Business School Michael Pollitt has been featured as an expert commentator in an article for The Guardian.
The article is entitled '‘Ultra-cheap energy for every household’: could a different kind of tariff change everything?' and discusses whether the UK should introduce 'rising block tariffs' into the UK.
Speaking about the UK Government's Energy Price Guarantee (EPG), Professor Pollitt said,
“We had one of the most expensive energy policies ever implemented. But this cap applied to all consumption which was crazy, because you were subsidising people with swimming pools whereas, actually, we could have done something more sophisticated and targeted and cheaper – which has all these other benefits.”