Decc projections estimate that ECO will bring 125,000 to 250,000
households out of fuel poverty.
Not exact matches
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.
Up to 100,000
households could be lifted
out of fuel poverty after the government persuaded the UK's six largest energy suppliers to increase the amount they spend on social programmes.
Eligible
households can receive one regular HEAP benefit per season, but may also be eligible for an emergency HEAP benefit if they are in danger
of running
out of fuel or having their utility service shut off.
Nearly all the new
households are renters, and young people moving
out of their parents» homes will keep
fueling rental demand.»
The model, which captures
fuel use in the power, transport, and other energy sectors
out to 2030, with
fuel responsiveness parameterized to empirical literature, estimates the impacts
of mitigation policies on CO2 emissions, revenue, premature deaths from local air pollution,
household and industry groups.
The Association for the Conservation
of Energy (ACE), a group
of companies involved in energy conservation issues, ranks the UK as «the cold man
of Europe» — the worst for
fuel poverty
out of 13 western European countries, and near the bottom
of the league on a number
of other
household energy indicators.
Founded in 2007, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group carries
out rigorous scientific evaluation
of initiatives designed to improve health and well - being through improved
household stoves,
fuels and education.
As I pointed
out in the previous post, the UK's energy and climate policies have resulted in rising prices, millions
of UK
households living in «
fuel poverty», and the possibility that energy intensive industries will leave these shores at the expense
of many thousands
of jobs, yet the Dept.
of Energy and Climate Change's priorities are with the mitigation
of climate change.