KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON
VEHEMENT campaigning for and against the government’s proposal for introducing regional or “zonal” electricity pricing has erupted just as
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“Could zonal pricing bring down the government?” reads one hyperbolic headline. Wild numbers are being bandied. Rarely has an obscure technical issue like this been a matter for such shrill public lobbying.