Sentences with phrase «fuel poverty targets»

It would not be «reasonably practicable» to meet the government's fuel poverty targets if that meant diverting money from other similarly important policy areas.

Rather, they complained that the government's anticipated failure to meet its fuel poverty targets showed it had not taken necessary steps to implement the strategy, in breach of WHECA 2000, s 2 (5).

All sectors involved in developing and policies and programmes to deliver on fuel poverty targets should attend including representatives from local government and RSLs; central government; the energy industry; Green Deal installer organisations; health agencies; voluntary and not for profit agencies at a national and local level.

Not exact matches

The Government has put in place legislation which requires any future Government to reach this first goal however this analysis and subsequent figures from Policy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timeframe.

FPEEG, the All - Party Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systFuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating sPoverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systfuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating spoverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systfuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating spoverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systems.

The Warm Homes Campaign is NEA and Energy Action Scotland's annual campaign targeted at the public and the country's decision makers to raise awareness of fuel poverty and the benefits of improved energy efficiency.

Committee chair Tim Yeo questioned the proposal to establish a new fuel poverty definition and target by the government.

The Strategy had also adopted an interim target to end fuel poverty for all vulnerable households in England by 2010 which was missed.

According to Eyre, focusing on the target reduces «the amount of resources that are being committed through both government funding fuel poverty measures... for England and the ECO [Energy Company Obligation] Affordable Warmth programme».

While many schemes supported through these levies make a valuable contribution to meeting Government targets to save energy, reduce emissions, and tackle fuel poverty and climate change the latest Government estimate indicated that they currently account for 4 % of a typical gas bill and up to 10 % of a typical electricity bill.

In an intervention, the Minister said that she was concerned that the Bill advanced an «absolutist position», yet the Government's target was to abolish all fuel poverty by 22 November 2016.

Over the next year we will go further in our efforts to eradicate fuel poverty and to deliver against our ambitious climate change targets.

The much awaited announcement follows an independent review of the fuel poverty definition and target, and reforms set out in the Energy Act last year, where the Coalition Government repealed legislation to eradicate fuel poverty in England by 2016.

The group claims that a government target of reducing fuel poverty will not be met in the time frame set out.

Keeping Kids Cosy will target both rural and urban areas of higher deprivation across the two counties where the latest government statistics show fuel poverty levels as high as 22.9 %, or over one in five house holds.

Lomborg claims the often - repeated talking point that «Policies aimed at addressing climate change can easily end up punishing the poor,» pointing a finger at Germany and citing a study by the fossil - fuel - funded Institute for Energy Research (IER), claiming that renewable energy targets and emissions caps have resulted in «energy poverty.»

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The language of the strategy is aspirational: the government will «seek» an end to fuel poverty with certain (very ambitious) «targets» in mind.