fuel poverty

In a recent study conducted by Alpha, the pressing concerns of UK homeowners around fuel poverty and energy security have come to the forefront with a staggering 60% of UK billpayers feeling troubled by the looming threat of fuel poverty. The cost-of-living crisis has cascading effects, with one in four citing stress and anxiety (26%) […]

OFTEC CEO Paul Rose looks at how fuel poverty is an issue that we all need to work together to resolve: Let’s start with some facts. Over the past three years, the number of English households living in fuel poverty has risen by 210,000 to 2.55 million. Last winter (2017/18), the number of excess winter […]

Upgrading outdated static electric storage heaters in half a million electrically heated homes could help to close a combined fuel poverty gap but they are being excluded from energy efficiency improvement programmes, according to a new report by Glen Dimplex Heating & Ventilation. More than 3.2million households in England and Scotland are fuel poor according […]

Using statistical methodology usually associated with the medical world, radical plans to tackle fuel poverty have been unveiled by energy trade association Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA).  According to their Chief Executive, former International Development Minister Mike Foster, nearly 140,000 families a year could be lifted out of fuel poverty simply by targeting support to […]

“Heat and warmth must not be considered a luxury” insists Heating and Hotwater Industry Council, HHIC, Director Stewart Clements; speaking out to mark Fuel Poverty Awareness Day on the 26th February. He continued: “The Committee on Climate Change’s Fifth Carbon Budget outlined that fuel poverty has risen to 4.5 million households (2013) from 3.3 million (2007) […]