Energy price cap could see higher-income households get the most benefit - ESRI.
"We've kind of already done that with the windfall tax," she said.
"We lose the incentive to kind of conserve energy, we lose our energy efficiency incentives," she said. "While we haven't done any analysis on this, what previous analysis would suggest is that would probably accrue more to higher-income households."So if we're capping our energy bills and we say, 'Anything that you use above that cap, the Government covers it', then the households that use the most actually get the most benefit".Ms Lynch said such an approach would also see the energy regulator essentially becoming the price-setter.
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