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Articles on Fuel poverty
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People from the lowest castes and ‘scheduled tribes’ are less likely to have electricity and clean gas, even compared to equally poor people from other castes.
You just need to apply some science.
Scotland’s failure to meet target illustrate a worldwide problem - the right to adequate heating and energy is not being properly recognised.
A new study reveals just how tough it can be to rebuild a life after homelessness.
When cold weather hits, heating costs can be a matter of life and death. So why are community groups the front line and not government?
Npower’s proposal for fuel banks addresses the symptoms of fuel poverty but not its causes.
The Green Party says fuel poverty is causing a high number of winter deaths due to people living in the cold. Are they right?
What is a healthy room temperature? On releasing its Cold Weather Plan for 2014, Public Health England has recently revised its recommended minimum levels to keep in good health. No longer, they say, do…
There’s been much debate this past month about Britain’s rising gas and electricity bills. Price hikes have followed utility companies’ reports of massive increases in profits, such as Scottish Power which…
Britain’s housing stock is old and leaky. The vast majority fails to meet modern energy efficiency standards, is responsible for over a quarter of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, and is often very…
The nights are drawing in, leaves are changing from green to gold, and energy suppliers are announcing price hikes. Along with animals disappearing into hibernation, energy price rises have become what…
Ed Miliband is right to be concerned about the lack of competitiveness in the UK energy retail sector. His worries are shared by many observers in the media and those of us in the regulatory and academic…
First the banks lost the public’s trust, then the tax activities of some large corporations were brought under scrutiny. So perhaps taking on the “big six” UK energy companies as household fuel bills incessantly…
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Professor of Energy Policy, Member of Fuel Poverty Evidence and Trustee of the Fuel Poverty Research Network, Sheffield Hallam University
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Senior Lecturer in Geography, Liverpool John Moores University
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Research Fellow in Fuel Poverty and Energy Policy, Built Environment Asset Management (BEAM) Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Energy Policy, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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PhD Researcher, University of Exeter
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Professor in Regeneration & Sustainable Development, University of Salford
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Professor of Microeconomics, Loughborough University
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Associate professor, University of Nottingham
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Senior lecturer, University of Manchester
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Professor of Transport Governance, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology
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PhD Student in Engineering & Data Science, University of Nottingham
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Senior research associate, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor in Operations Management, Director of Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES) Director of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre, University of Sheffield
