crosssubsidies for both energy producers and consumers are another widespread mechanism in georgia for instance electricity producers sell electricity to the grid at differentiated tariffs that ensure lower costs to end consumers but in practice provide crosssubsidies from cheap hydropower generation to highercost natural gas generation another example is belarus where commercial consumers of natural gas electricity and heat pay a premium in the tariff put in place to crosssubsidise the tariff for households furthermore heat tariff for households is crosssubsidised not just through the higher heat tariffs for commercial users but also through tariff for electricity since belarus cogenerates a lot of its heat and electricity