Energy: Prices
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of redistributing green levies and surcharges to help increase energy affordability.
Answered by Miatta Fahnbulleh
The Government is committed to ensuring a fair and affordable transition to Net Zero while considering the impact of policy costs on all energy consumers. Consumer energy bills are a vital tool to leverage private sector investment to support our critical goals to decarbonise the energy market whilst contributing to economic growth. Policy costs, or levies, fund essential schemes that have delivered significant benefits, including increasing renewable generation capacity and reducing reliance on fossil fuels. The Renewables Obligation and the Feed-in Tariffs schemes are now closed to new applications but have brought forward the successful renewable electricity sector that we see today in the UK.
The Department keeps the aggregate impact of these policies under review.
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