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16.09.2022

How a gas price cap works

Professor Lion Hirth explains how a gas price cap works.

In this video lecture, Professor of Energy Policy Lion Hirth explains how a gas price cap works, what it does and what it doesn't do. A gas price cap without hard savings measures could lead to physical shortfalls, he explains, but introducing those savings policies would, in turn, make the gas price cap obsolete. Watch the video below or at the link here. For more resources like this and updates on the energy crisis, visit our energy crisis page.


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