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Articles on Fuel poverty
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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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Research Fellow in Fuel Poverty and Energy Policy, Built Environment Asset Management (BEAM) Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor at the Lancaster Environment Centre and previously co-director of the DEMAND Centre, Lancaster University
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Professor of Energy Policy, University of Sussex
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of York
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Professor of Microeconomics, Loughborough University
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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 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
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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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Senior research associate, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance, The Open University
