Sentences with phrase «lihc fuel poor»

Current annual spending on energy efficiency improvements in fuel poor homes in England is circa # 490m, a proportion of the GB wide Energy Company Obligation (ECO) programme.

Improving the homes of all low income households, rather than «LIHC fuel poor», households is required as it helps overcome the difficulty of «churn» arising from the relative Low Income High Cost (LIHC) definition and make the delivery and targeting of programmes much more straightforward.

The Government needs to act urgently and we are calling on Gordon Brown, who only recently pledged to ensure that he will do everything to eradicate fuel poverty, to use the additional VAT receipts he will receive from the price increases and direct them into energy efficiency schemes for the fuel poor.»

As part of the Policy and Research Directorate, the team supports NEA as the expert voice on behalf of the fuel poor through the provision of evidence and insights to help the charity achieve its vision of no - one living in fuel poverty.

The UK's leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) has today welcomed Energy Minster Chris Huhne's pledge that the needs of fuel poor households will be prioritised in the proposed Green Deal, due to be launched next year.

Those who are fuel poor are often more generally poor.

«NEA will work with its members and partners across the country in coming weeks to ensure the voices of the fuel poor are heard through the consultation period on the Government's Fuel Poverty Strategy and to ensure the policies and programmes that underpin it are properly resourced and are deliverable.

The statistics also show that the poorest continue to live in the worst homes with the depth and likelihood of being fuel poor increasing markedly with lower levels of energy efficiency.

The average SAP rating in 2012 for fuel poor households in England is E with well over a million fuel poor households in this band alone.

The new targets, set out in a statutory instrument tabled today in Parliament, require that all fuel poor households must be bought up to a minimum of EPC band C by 2030 with interim targets of a minimum of EPC band E by 2020 and D by 2025.

«Whilst we applaud the Government's commitment to address the least energy efficient properties by 2020, there is a significant risk that over a million fuel poor households will continue to live in hard to heat homes by 2025 and the # 1billion savings on bills will not be achieved.

A transformative programme of housing improvements is needed to get the job done far quicker and a commitment to additional and adequate resources to guarantee we do not leave the majority of the fuel poor households still living in expensive - to - heat homes, over the next five to ten years.

People fear shareholder interests are being put in front of the needs of families and the fuel poor.

(Table) Number of fuel poor households nationally 2011.

Cutting energy bills by scrapping outright social and green levies punishes the fuel poor and punishes the future generations who will confront the full force of climate change.

However, a crucial fact is that only 18 % of households in receipt of the Winter Fuel Payment are classified as «fuel poor» - i.e. spending more than 10 % of their income on energy and therefore most likely to struggling to heat their homes.

Moreover, 49 % of all fuel poor households receive no Winter Fuel Payment, as they are not pensioner households.

SSE has ring - fenced Energy Company Obligation (ECO) eligible measures targeted at fuel poor and vulnerable households in Cornwall and is a key partner to delivering Warm and Well Cornwall.

Around 36,000 homes in Cornwall are in fuel poverty, with Cornwall in the top 10 of fuel poor areas in the country.

Joan Ruddock: The most recently published estimate of fuel poverty shows that there were around 3.5 million fuel poor households living in the UK in 2006.»

For children, fuel poor homes are associated with a significantly greater risk of respiratory problems and inadequate nutritional intake.

Keeping Kids Cosy calls for businesses across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire to donate energy efficiency products for fuel poor families

For infants, living in fuel poor homes is associated with a 30 % greater risk of admission to hospital or primary care facilities.

Dale clarified it in another post when he said that ``... the FIT itself is funded by energy bills — so it's a subsidy from all users to a few — that's OK if it all goes to the fuel poor as you describe — but in practice a lot of it (most of it) goes to the fuel rich — increasing the bills of the fuel poor.

Putting aside concerns about some of the assumptions in Deap — for instance assuming air permeability of homes without airtightness test results, when the evidence indicates that homes built in the second half of the 20th century may be much leakier than pre-war homes — HPAI's SEAI liaison officer John O'Shaughnessy said: «Deap is the preferred tool of the department and has proven to work on a lot of social and fuel poor energy upgrades in the past.»

We've reduced the average electricity bill by # 276.8 for everyone, not just the fuel poor.

But if we're still feeling generous, perhaps we could give some extra relief to the remaining fuel poor.

The report states: «The government is also under pressure to curb rising energy bills with 2.3 million of Britain's 27 million households deemed fuel poor, meaning the cost of heating their homes leaves them with income below the poverty line.»

At a time when 6.59 million households in the UK are considered «fuel poor» (spending more than 10 % of household income on heating), paying power companies to burn wood is a disastrous waste of money.

Not exact matches

For poor nations, providing fuel to their citizens at below - market prices is a crippling trap — any attempt to change them can cost a politician an election or cause riots.

Media hype and poor technical literacy are fuelling a pile - on that's totally divorced from reality

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Polluting cooking fuels as well as cars contribute to the poor air quality.

This, like a poor response, can just add fuel to the complaint.

The report said Qantas recorded poor fuel efficiency because it used older, fuel - intensive aircraft, carried a low amount of freight (therefore making it less efficient) and also had relatively low numbers of passengers on each plane.

Without any rationale thinking and fueled solely by emotions is the very reason why you see people try short - term fad diets and other questionable health choices along with poor business decisions.

After decades of poor upkeep, the refineries are bleeding money as well as fuel.

Poor fuel hedging bets and fierce competition from mainland Chinese and Middle Eastern rivals has hurt Cathay, pushing it into losses for the past two years and forcing the airline to undertake a three - year turnaround programme.

The plan includes unpopular measures like cuts to subsidies for the poor and raising fuel prices to lower debt.

Your cause has to be more important than our out - of - control lives that are fueled by nutrient - poor foods and a lack of peace.

Today asset managers are more likely to screen out tobacco, weapons or fossil fuel companies, or companies with poor human rights records.

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

One of the primary contributors to the company's poor results, according to CEO Jack Lipinski, is the «exorbitant costs of Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) under the broken Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.»

My rejection and fear of myself fueled my own sin cycle and resulted in very poor decision making and very unhealthy expressions of my sexuality.

Caritas Internationalis president Cardinal Luis Tagle said: «The poor are suffering greatly from the climate crisis and fossil fuels are among the main drivers of this injustice.

They argue that justice for the poor is best served if everyone in the developed nations reduces his «carbon footprint» and thus his consumption of energy, which is mostly created from fossil fuels.

This is what fuels my work with the homeless and poor in my community.

And if fuel shortages are a bother for us, they are devastating to the poor countries; the energy crisis is widening the gap between the rich and the poor nations of this world at a terrifying pace.

We should also have a massive program for retrofitting the homes of the poor so that rising fuel prices can be countered by reduced energy needs.

• Consequent to the notion of disaster, and fueled by MacIntyre's polemicism, there is a streak of victimhood running through MacIntyre's work, and especially through the attitudes of his adherents — «we poor moderns» and such.