| Practice area: | Public Policy |
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| Client: | Department for Energy Security & Net Zero |
| Published: | 24 April, 2025 |
| Keywords: | consumer Economic analysis Economic Evaluation energy Evaluation Public Policy |
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) published London Economics’ work on the Interim evaluation of the domestic energy affordability support schemes in Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
In 2022, in response to the rapid increase in energy prices and growing concerns about their impacts on consumers the UK government launched a package of energy affordability schemes to support households during this challenging period. These schemes had to be designed and scaled very quickly and ended up providing near universal support to households. LE and its partners carried out evaluations of the implementation process as well as the impacts on consumers.
The analysis found that the schemes prevented around 2 million GB households from underheating in winter 2022/3. In addition, the schemes supported households to limit their use of harmful mitigation strategies (e.g. reducing spending on other essentials, increasing borrowing, etc), and also helped limiting the factors that impact energy suppliers’ insolvency risks.