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This is a form of rationing in the face of reduced supply. Another option would be allow electricity prices to rise and people to make their own choices about how to respond to that.

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No of course it wouldn't. Because that would impact poor people who don't have a choice and already optimised their spending a lot more.

Commercial pricing is already separate from residential pricing

And I didn’t advocate either way of doing it in any case. I just offered an alternate that may or may not be better.

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