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Free lunch? What if electricity was free?

Geoff Riley

26th January 2018

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Is there anything like a free lunch when it comes to supplying electricity to homes, businesses and communities? Perhaps we are moving towards something close to a zero marginal cost of generating electricity?

How free electricity would change the world
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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