'Skewed': How poor electricity market design cost Britain £7bn

Cecilia Keating
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The UK and Italy consistently paid the highest spot prices during the recent period of high gas price volatility, according to Carbon Tracker | Credit: iStock
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The UK and Italy consistently paid the highest spot prices during the recent period of high gas price volatility, according to Carbon Tracker | Credit: iStock

Carbon Tracker makes the case for sweeping reforms to the energy market to better protect electricity prices from gas market volatility and drive down the cost of the net zero transition

As the government's review of how to reform to the power market rumbles on, fresh analysis from Carbon Tracker has today highlighted how current approach to electricity pricing is costing UK energy consumers...

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