Decc projections estimate that ECO will bring 125,000 to 250,000
households out of fuel poverty.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.