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by londons_explore 38 days ago
It appears expensive electricity is mostly a policy decision. Schemes to support low carbon energy, strict emissions controls etc.

Let everyone do what they were doing in 1980, and prices would be rock bottom by now.

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Yeah I don’t understand why the first priority of any policy maker isn’t to make the cost of electricity as low as possible. We certainly have the technology to do this.