[Meandering]

It seems that charging a premium on energy use beyond a certain threshold would be far more effective. The carbon-cost of investigating high-end consumer electronics might actually be more than the few PCs that would be purchased.

[TheMightyLlama]

Similar to how broadband is charged? On the flipside of that, energy users could also have their energy throttled based on the number of consumers in the household.

You have x energy credits as part of the package, if you don't want to pay over that then your energy will, of course, be throttled.