a world bank study has found that subsidising the upfront capital costs rather than consumption is more effective to promote investment in electrification projects world bank in general tariff subsidies disproportionately benefit the higherincome and higherelectricityconsuming social classes in fact connection costs to the electricity grid are still a major barrier ieg alternative tariff structures could include the cost in monthly payments access to electricity increases economic output and income in some cases the benefits resulting from connection enable the user to later upgrade to higher power the projected increased demand provides strong incentive for private companies however the need to transform the entire energy system creates additional risk