#fuelpoverty — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ie/431205/ Schools set to reopen Monday but disruption ‘likely’ for bus services amid fuel protests #BusEireann #Business #DepartmentOfEducation #Easter #education #Éire #FuelPoverty #Gardaí #IE #Ireland #IrishGovernment #LabourParty #PetrolPrices #Schools #SimonHarris #TransportationDepartment #travel

Iran war sees energy bosses' personal wealth soar as UK households pay the price

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/iran-war-sees-energy-bosses-36960497

I would desperately like to see UK government decouple the price of electricity from gas. We have just about the most expensive consumer energy prices in the world…but lazy journalism won’t get us there.

This piece is a recycled press release from a think tank…admittedly not a rightwing one, but it’s not based on the kind of research you might find in a journal.

#Energy
#Gas
#Electricity
#decoupling
#FuelPoverty
#fuel

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/19/stopping-gas-dictating-uk-energy-price-could-cut-bills-by-200-thinktank-says

I would desperately like to see UK government decouple the price of electricity from gas. We have just about the most expensive consumer energy prices in the world…but lazy journalism won’t get us there.

This piece is a recycled press release from a think tank…admittedly not a rightwing one, but it’s not based on the kind of research you might find in a journal.

#Energy
#Gas
#Electricity
#decoupling
#FuelPoverty
#fuel

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/19/stopping-gas-dictating-uk-energy-price-could-cut-bills-by-200-thinktank-says

I would desperately like to see UK government decouple the price of electricity from gas. We have just about the most expensive consumer energy prices in the world…but lazy journalism won’t get us there.

This piece is a recycled press release from a think tank…admittedly not a rightwing one, but it’s not based on the kind of research you might find in a journal.

#Energy
#Gas
#Electricity
#decoupling
#FuelPoverty
#fuel

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/19/stopping-gas-dictating-uk-energy-price-could-cut-bills-by-200-thinktank-says

I would desperately like to see UK government decouple the price of electricity from gas. We have just about the most expensive consumer energy prices in the world…but lazy journalism won’t get us there.

This piece is a recycled press release from a think tank…admittedly not a rightwing one, but it’s not based on the kind of research you might find in a journal.

#Energy
#Gas
#Electricity
#decoupling
#FuelPoverty
#fuel

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/19/stopping-gas-dictating-uk-energy-price-could-cut-bills-by-200-thinktank-says

I would desperately like to see UK government decouple the price of electricity from gas. We have just about the most expensive consumer energy prices in the world…but lazy journalism won’t get us there.

This piece is a recycled press release from a think tank…admittedly not a rightwing one, but it’s not based on the kind of research you might find in a journal.

#Energy
#Gas
#Electricity
#decoupling
#FuelPoverty
#fuel

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/19/stopping-gas-dictating-uk-energy-price-could-cut-bills-by-200-thinktank-says

‘I’m a single mum with a five-year-old and we're forced to sleep next to black mould'

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/im-single-mum-five-year-36565183

Why Do Some [UK] Homes Feel Chilly No Matter How High You Turn Up The Heating? 🏠❄️ - How Location Data Can Help Identify Hard To Heat Homes In Britain [spatial]
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#OrdnanceSurvey #OS #GIS #spatial #mapping #UK #England #Scotland #Wales #Britain #UnitedKingdom #coldhomes #heating #efficiency #build #efficiency #insulation #building #material #type #house #home #residential #buildquality #construction #age #heatretention #winter #extremeweather #temperature #WarmHomesPlan #energy #fuel #urban #rural #fuelpoverty #energyefficiency #spatialanalysis #localauthorities #heatloss #coastal #remote #detached #semidetached #heatindex #coldspell #usecase #economics #benefits
@OrdnanceSurvey

Why Do Some [UK] Homes Feel Chilly No Matter How High You Turn Up The Heating? 🏠❄️ - How Location Data Can Help Identify Hard To Heat Homes In Britain [spatial]
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https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/insights/how-location-data-can-help-identify-hard-to-heat-homes-in-britain <-- shared technical article
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#OrdnanceSurvey #OS #GIS #spatial #mapping #UK #England #Scotland #Wales #Britain #UnitedKingdom #coldhomes #heating #efficiency #build #efficiency #insulation #building #material #type #house #home #residential #buildquality #construction #age #heatretention #winter #extremeweather #temperature #WarmHomesPlan #energy #fuel #urban #rural #fuelpoverty #energyefficiency #spatialanalysis #localauthorities #heatloss #coastal #remote #detached #semidetached #heatindex #coldspell #usecase #economics #benefits
@OrdnanceSurvey

Why Do Some [UK] Homes Feel Chilly No Matter How High You Turn Up The Heating? 🏠❄️ - How Location Data Can Help Identify Hard To Heat Homes In Britain [spatial]
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https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/insights/how-location-data-can-help-identify-hard-to-heat-homes-in-britain <-- shared technical article
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#OrdnanceSurvey #OS #GIS #spatial #mapping #UK #England #Scotland #Wales #Britain #UnitedKingdom #coldhomes #heating #efficiency #build #efficiency #insulation #building #material #type #house #home #residential #buildquality #construction #age #heatretention #winter #extremeweather #temperature #WarmHomesPlan #energy #fuel #urban #rural #fuelpoverty #energyefficiency #spatialanalysis #localauthorities #heatloss #coastal #remote #detached #semidetached #heatindex #coldspell #usecase #economics #benefits
@OrdnanceSurvey

Why Do Some [UK] Homes Feel Chilly No Matter How High You Turn Up The Heating? 🏠❄️ - How Location Data Can Help Identify Hard To Heat Homes In Britain [spatial]
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https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/insights/how-location-data-can-help-identify-hard-to-heat-homes-in-britain <-- shared technical article
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#OrdnanceSurvey #OS #GIS #spatial #mapping #UK #England #Scotland #Wales #Britain #UnitedKingdom #coldhomes #heating #efficiency #build #efficiency #insulation #building #material #type #house #home #residential #buildquality #construction #age #heatretention #winter #extremeweather #temperature #WarmHomesPlan #energy #fuel #urban #rural #fuelpoverty #energyefficiency #spatialanalysis #localauthorities #heatloss #coastal #remote #detached #semidetached #heatindex #coldspell #usecase #economics #benefits
@OrdnanceSurvey

Why Do Some [UK] Homes Feel Chilly No Matter How High You Turn Up The Heating? 🏠❄️ - How Location Data Can Help Identify Hard To Heat Homes In Britain [spatial]
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https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/insights/how-location-data-can-help-identify-hard-to-heat-homes-in-britain <-- shared technical article
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#OrdnanceSurvey #OS #GIS #spatial #mapping #UK #England #Scotland #Wales #Britain #UnitedKingdom #coldhomes #heating #efficiency #build #efficiency #insulation #building #material #type #house #home #residential #buildquality #construction #age #heatretention #winter #extremeweather #temperature #WarmHomesPlan #energy #fuel #urban #rural #fuelpoverty #energyefficiency #spatialanalysis #localauthorities #heatloss #coastal #remote #detached #semidetached #heatindex #coldspell #usecase #economics #benefits
@OrdnanceSurvey

No ban on gas boilers in UK warm homes plan but heat pumps get £2.7bn push https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/20/uk-warm-homes-plan-gas-boilers-billions-heat-pumps #Energy #EnergyBills #Environment #ConsumerAffairs #FuelPoverty #HouseholdBills #HeatPumps #Politics #Labour #EdMiliband #RenewableEnergy #EnergyEfficiency #GreenJobs #GreenEconomy #GreenPolitics #UkNews

What I saw reporting on the American lives cut short by killer heat https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/inside-americas-hidden-climate-deaths #Trumpadministration #Climatecrisis #Environment #Extremeheat #Fuelpoverty #USpolitics

‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution.

Renewable energy is flourishing in Spain, a country with no gas or oil and little coal of its own, but an abundance of sunshine.

From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251114-were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Spain #RenewableEnergy #SolarPower #Energy #FuelPoverty #Environment #Europe #Spain

‘It happened so fast’: the shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/phoenix-heat-deaths #Trumpadministration #Climatecrisis #Extremeheat #Environment #Fuelpoverty #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Arizona #USnews

‘It happened so fast’: the shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/phoenix-heat-deaths #Trumpadministration #Climatecrisis #Extremeheat #Environment #Fuelpoverty #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Arizona #USnews

Apart Together - Tim Minchin

https://youtu.be/jfNfkYvh214?si=7B3g783f9-qKbrZq #austerity #poverty #FuelPoverty #love #TimMinchin

One million families with children face fuel poverty this Christmas, analysis shows | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/energy-bill-fuel-cost-children-b2669101.html

#Poverty
#FuelPoverty
#ChildPoverty

@lyndamerry484

In the same way, Labour have bungled the issue of #fuelpoverty

The #WinterFuelAllowance was problematic, but shouldn't have been cut without a package of measures to address fuel poverty, such as insulating homes, supporting low cost heating and addressing the benefits crisis

I expect we will see a rise in deaths this winter as a result. Our hospitals are already warning they are seeing massive rises in flu which is caused by fuel poverty

“It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good.”
Terry Pratchett; Wintersmith
#Discworld #IncreasingEnergyBills #FuelPoverty #KeepingWarm #KeepFighting 🥶

I know writing a letter to a newspaper won’t change a damn thing…I don’t even know who bothers to read the letters page when we have BTL commenting on most articles.

But I could think of no other medium to express myself in response to #Starmer’s words last week during #Cop29 that he will “not [be] telling people how to live their lives”.

#Retrofit
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#FuelPoverty

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/making-homes-greener-isnt-nanny-statism

Simon Francis, a coordinator at the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, said:

“The only way to bring down bills permanently is through investment in insulation, home improvements, renewables and infrastructure which will free us from volatile gas prices for ever. But in the budget, the chancellor only confirmed half the spending commitment Labour pledged in their manifesto to the warm homes plan.”

#Retrofit
#Budget2024
#Labour
#FuelPoverty

UK ‘risks repeat of surging energy bills’ amid continued reliance on gas https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/15/uk-risks-repeat-of-surging-energy-bills-amid-continued-reliance-on-gas #UKcostoflivingcrisis #Energyefficiency #Renewableenergy #Consumeraffairs #Energyindustry #Householdbills #Familyfinances #Borrowing&debt #Energybills #Environment #Commodities #Fossilfuels #Fuelpoverty #Heatpumps #Business #Energy #UKnews #Money #Gas #Gas

Fuel poverty ‘shocker’ should power energy reform

Calum Macdonald asked if something was “just not clicking” between policy and legislation.

Using Viking Energy Windfarm as an example, Mr Macdonald said the windfarm could power up to half a million homes but its owner #SSE was given £2 million to switch off its turbines in August.

He added that fuel poverty in the isles was around 30 per cent.

https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2024/10/08/fuel-poverty-shocker-should-power-energy-reform

#Shetland #FuelPoverty #Electricity #WindFarms #turbines #Scotland

Wow, even Pam Ayres had to write a poem. Labour is doomed!
#Labour #FuelPoverty #ukpolitics

UK Government urged to reform energy markets and reverse cuts

#Scotland's social justice secretary has urged the UK Government to reverse the cut to the winter fuel payment, which she said has had “devastating consequences” north of the border.

Shirley-Anne Somerville said reform of the #UK #energy markets is needed and urged Westminster to take action to address the root causes of fuel poverty and volatile energy prices.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24600512.uk-government-urged-reform-energy-markets-reverse-cuts/

#PrivatisationFails #electricity #FuelPoverty

UK Government urged to reform energy markets and reverse cuts

#Scotland's social justice secretary has urged the UK Government to reverse the cut to the winter fuel payment, which she said has had “devastating consequences” north of the border.

Shirley-Anne Somerville said reform of the #UK #energy markets is needed and urged Westminster to take action to address the root causes of fuel poverty and volatile energy prices.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24600512.uk-government-urged-reform-energy-markets-reverse-cuts/

#PrivatisationFails #electricity #FuelPoverty

UK Government urged to reform energy markets and reverse cuts

#Scotland's social justice secretary has urged the UK Government to reverse the cut to the winter fuel payment, which she said has had “devastating consequences” north of the border.

Shirley-Anne Somerville said reform of the #UK #energy markets is needed and urged Westminster to take action to address the root causes of fuel poverty and volatile energy prices.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24600512.uk-government-urged-reform-energy-markets-reverse-cuts/

#PrivatisationFails #electricity #FuelPoverty

UK Government urged to reform energy markets and reverse cuts

#Scotland's social justice secretary has urged the UK Government to reverse the cut to the winter fuel payment, which she said has had “devastating consequences” north of the border.

Shirley-Anne Somerville said reform of the #UK #energy markets is needed and urged Westminster to take action to address the root causes of fuel poverty and volatile energy prices.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24600512.uk-government-urged-reform-energy-markets-reverse-cuts/

#PrivatisationFails #electricity #FuelPoverty

UK Government urged to reform energy markets and reverse cuts

#Scotland's social justice secretary has urged the UK Government to reverse the cut to the winter fuel payment, which she said has had “devastating consequences” north of the border.

Shirley-Anne Somerville said reform of the #UK #energy markets is needed and urged Westminster to take action to address the root causes of fuel poverty and volatile energy prices.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24600512.uk-government-urged-reform-energy-markets-reverse-cuts/

#PrivatisationFails #electricity #FuelPoverty

Yesterday (I think) I followed a link I was interested in (from I don't remember who) on here & it took me to the link below. The article makes good points. Goodness, does this news media's readers understand words such as kompromat (from the Russian компрома? We had to look it up!😂
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24585360.labour-mps-ditched-universalism-first-opportunity/
#Labour #AndrewTickell #TheNational #Scotland #LaboutMPs #pensioners #freezing #politics #RachelReeves #FuelPoverty #Starmer #hypothermia #dying #NHS #PensionCredit #winterfuelpayment

@MadeyeTheCarnaptious @Indyposterboy I just got notification of the rise in October of my electricity bill. I'm already officially in #fuelpoverty I'm surrounded by wind turbines. The irony of being the nation producing the energy and paying the most because we have to buy it back

Shame on Labour MPs that vote for this today 👇

#FuelPoverty #FatCats #ukpolitics

I can’t even afford to charge my wheelchair. So how are people like me expected to afford the energy price rise? | Thirugnanam Sureshan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/28/cannot-afford-charge-wheelchair-energy-price-rise-disabled-people

#EnergyBills
#FuelPoverty
#Disabled
#Disability

The pensioners pushed into fuel poverty with Ofgem price cap increase | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ofgem-price-cap-pensioners-rachel-reeves-b2600827.html

#Poverty
#FuelPoverty
#Ofgem
#Pensioners
#EnergyPriceCap
#ChronicallyIll
#EnergyBills
#Reeves
#PensionCredit
#WinterFuelPayments
#Labour
#WarmThisWinter
#MeansTesting
#Greens
#Tories

The amount on the #meter isn't what you #pay.
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2024/07/scottish-power-smart-meter-monitor-price/
#smartmeter #power #scottishpower #energy #VAT #hiddencost #fuel #poverty #fuelpoverty #Scottish #Scotland #Powercompanies

Ofgem energy price cap could have been £500 lower, campaigners say | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ofgem-energy-price-cap-could-have-been-ps500-lower-campaigners-say

#Ofgem
#EnergyPriceCap
#EnergyBills
#EnergyPoverty
#FuelPoverty
#Poverty
#VAT
#RemoveVATFromEnergyBills
#EndVATOnEnergyBills
#SocialTarrifs
#WarmThisWinter
#Insulation
#RenewableEnergy
#HelpToRepaySchemeNeeded

Thousands of people dying every year over government failure to insulate homes, Greenpeace says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/greenpeace-analysis-insulation-failure-government-b2512111.html

#InsulateBritain
#Insulation
#UKGov
#Greenpeace
#PublicHealth
#PublicHealthCrisis
#Cameron
#GreenpeaceUK
#Poverty
#FuelPoverty
#Freezing
#Deaths
#ColdHomes
#EnergyBills
#EPCRating

More than 2 million people across the UK will be cut off from their gas and electricity this winter because they cannot afford to top up their prepayment meters, according to Citizens Advice.
Last winter about 800,000 people went more than 24 hours without gas and electricity, unable to make a hot meal or take a warm shower, because they could not afford to top up.

#Poverty #FuelPoverty #Energy #PrepaymentMeters #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/jan/23/uk-prepay-meter-users-cut-off-gas-electric-this-winter?CMP=firstedition_email

Gordon Brown calls for overhaul of benefits system as study reveals ‘crisis’ | Welfare | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/21/gordon-brown-urges-overhaul-benefits-system-study-crisis

#Brown
#Benefits
#FoodPoverty
#FuelPoverty
#Poverty
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#CostOfSurvivingCrisis
#WorldEconomicForum
#FinancialFairnessTrust
#Destitution
#2ChildLimit
#2005TurnerCommission

Gordon Brown calls for overhaul of benefits system as study reveals ‘crisis’ | Welfare | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/21/gordon-brown-urges-overhaul-benefits-system-study-crisis

#Brown
#Benefits
#FoodPoverty
#FuelPoverty
#Poverty
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#CostOfSurvivingCrisis
#WorldEconomicForum
#FinancialFairnessTrust
#Destitution
#2ChildLimit
#2005TurnerCommission

Gordon Brown calls for overhaul of benefits system as study reveals ‘crisis’ | Welfare | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/21/gordon-brown-urges-overhaul-benefits-system-study-crisis

#Brown
#Benefits
#FoodPoverty
#FuelPoverty
#Poverty
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#CostOfSurvivingCrisis
#WorldEconomicForum
#FinancialFairnessTrust
#Destitution
#2ChildLimit
#2005TurnerCommission

Gordon Brown calls for overhaul of benefits system as study reveals ‘crisis’ | Welfare | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/21/gordon-brown-urges-overhaul-benefits-system-study-crisis

#Brown
#Benefits
#FoodPoverty
#FuelPoverty
#Poverty
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#CostOfSurvivingCrisis
#WorldEconomicForum
#FinancialFairnessTrust
#Destitution
#2ChildLimit
#2005TurnerCommission

Gordon Brown calls for overhaul of benefits system as study reveals ‘crisis’ | Welfare | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/21/gordon-brown-urges-overhaul-benefits-system-study-crisis

#Brown
#Benefits
#FoodPoverty
#FuelPoverty
#Poverty
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#CostOfSurvivingCrisis
#WorldEconomicForum
#FinancialFairnessTrust
#Destitution
#2ChildLimit
#2005TurnerCommission

'Urgent' action needed over 'vicious' British Gas, EDF, E.On, Octopus, Ovo cycle
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsbirmingham/urgent-action-needed-over-vicious-british-gas-edf-e-on-octopus-ovo-cycle/ar-AA1lyYhR?cvid=21a8fc02a3fb45a1d0d1f77653ad226e&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=6

#BritishGas
#EDF
#EOn
#Octopus
#OVOEnergy
#CornwallInsight
#Suppliers
#SupplierFailures
#Ofgem
#EnergyMarket
#PriceCapAdjustment
#BadDebt
#Debt
#DefaultTarrifCap
#UnpaidDebts
#FuelPoverty
#SocialTarrifs

'Urgent' action needed over 'vicious' British Gas, EDF, E.On, Octopus, Ovo cycle
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsbirmingham/urgent-action-needed-over-vicious-british-gas-edf-e-on-octopus-ovo-cycle/ar-AA1lyYhR?cvid=21a8fc02a3fb45a1d0d1f77653ad226e&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=6

#BritishGas
#EDF
#EOn
#Octopus
#OVOEnergy
#CornwallInsight
#Suppliers
#SupplierFailures
#Ofgem
#EnergyMarket
#PriceCapAdjustment
#BadDebt
#Debt
#DefaultTarrifCap
#UnpaidDebts
#FuelPoverty
#SocialTarrifs

'Urgent' action needed over 'vicious' British Gas, EDF, E.On, Octopus, Ovo cycle
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsbirmingham/urgent-action-needed-over-vicious-british-gas-edf-e-on-octopus-ovo-cycle/ar-AA1lyYhR?cvid=21a8fc02a3fb45a1d0d1f77653ad226e&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=6

#BritishGas
#EDF
#EOn
#Octopus
#OVOEnergy
#CornwallInsight
#Suppliers
#SupplierFailures
#Ofgem
#EnergyMarket
#PriceCapAdjustment
#BadDebt
#Debt
#DefaultTarrifCap
#UnpaidDebts
#FuelPoverty
#SocialTarrifs

'Urgent' action needed over 'vicious' British Gas, EDF, E.On, Octopus, Ovo cycle
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsbirmingham/urgent-action-needed-over-vicious-british-gas-edf-e-on-octopus-ovo-cycle/ar-AA1lyYhR?cvid=21a8fc02a3fb45a1d0d1f77653ad226e&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=6

#BritishGas
#EDF
#EOn
#Octopus
#OVOEnergy
#CornwallInsight
#Suppliers
#SupplierFailures
#Ofgem
#EnergyMarket
#PriceCapAdjustment
#BadDebt
#Debt
#DefaultTarrifCap
#UnpaidDebts
#FuelPoverty
#SocialTarrifs