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WM2041 Actions

Using our industrial past to create a zero-carbon future: between five and fifteen years

Strategic allocation of energy infrastructure costs: use regulation to ‘favour’ key sectors when it comes to the apportionment of energy infrastructure costs. It may not be long until the price of fuels essentially falls to zero. In this situation, it follows pricing cannot meaningfully be based directly on usage. Instead, it will be entirely focused on ensuring infrastructure investment costs are recovered and this may be done in a number of ways to meet industrial strategy or political objectives.