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Josie Clarke

Household electricity bills could fall if time-varying prices promoted – report

A report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the LSE looked at electricity pricing (Joe Giddens/PA) - (PA Archive)

Household electricity bills could fall if the Government promoted the take-up of time-varying prices, according to a report.

The costs of producing electricity vary “a lot” over time and place, but most consumers do not face prices that reflect these differences, said the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and LSE report, published as part of the IFS Green Budget and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

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