Why heating your home this winter may be even harder than last year
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par Aimee Ambrose, Professor of Energy Policy, Member of Fuel Poverty Evidence and Trustee of the Fuel Poverty Research Network, Sheffield Hallam University
Lucie Middlemiss, Professor in Environment and Society, University of Leeds
Neil Simcock, Senior Lecturer in Geography, Liverpool John Moores University
Domestic energy prices more than doubled during 2022 compared with the year before. This meant that the number of UK households in fuel poverty who could not afford to heat their homes to a safe level rose from 4.5 million to 7.3 million.
The UK government attempted to alleviate the impact of rocketing bills with a package of support measures. This included capping the unit cost of electricity and gas,…
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mardi 17 octobre 2023
