Who should be charged? The challenge of fairly allocating electricity system costs

High electricity costs are a challenge for European households and industry. While the long-term measures for bringing down electricity system costs—like reducing the dependence on imported fossil fuels and deeper integration of European energy markets—are widely agreed upon, the short-term options to lower final consumer prices involve inescapable trade-offs. Typically, changes to network tariffication, energy taxation, subsidies, market design etc. have strong winners and losers.
At this event, Bruegel presented the findings from a policy brief on the topic of distributional issues and policy trade-offs associated with measures to reduce European electricity costs, followed by an expert panel discussion.