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Lorna Wilcox: "People are being punished for being loyal customers"
Tariff search helped client to save over £1,000 in energy bills
25 September 2018
Extra funding for Warm & Safe Wiltshire
30 August 2018
Distribution network operators (DNOs) are obliged to support vulnerable energy customers through services such as the Priority Services Register.
Scottish electricity network companies need to do more to support vulnerable consumers
7 August 2018
The Tenants Energy Advice project has saved over £150,000 for some of the most hard-up households in the city.
Another round of TEA
10 July 2018
The government's 2015 fuel poverty strategy, 'Cutting the Cost of Keeping Warm' specifies that as many homes as is reasonably practicable acheive an energy performance rating of 'C' or above.
Finding the sweet spot: effectively aligning household energy policies
19 June 2018
Energise Barnsley has installed solar panels on over 300 council owned homes, 75% of whose tenants are elderly and a quarter of which have pre-payment meters.
We can do more to make community energy more mainstream
3 May 2018
NICE guidelines exist for tackling ill health due to cold homes
Evaluating the impact of Citizens Advice's Winter Resilience pilot
25 April 2018
CSE to host the next Fuel Poverty Research Network meet up
16 March 2018
Plymouth Energy Community's solar field is a great example of the potential that community energy projects have.
Bridgend Energy Challenge is searching for a local energy group
15 February 2018
Independent consumer judges voting for innovative projects and ideas to help vulnerable customers.
CSE projects awarded in report highlighting industry best practice
5 February 2018
"As long as this loophole is open, the hardest to heat homes in the UK will be left uninsulated"
CSE supports campaign to close cold homes loophole
18 October 2017
25,000 families in Bristol will feel the cold at home this winter
'No one should suffer a cold home'
13 October 2017
The event will show how smart meters have been used to give better energy advice to vulnerable households
Workshop: benefits of smart energy technologies for vulnerable households
19 September 2017
The Unitarian Meeting Hall in Brunswick Square
WHAM launch event, 10 October
13 September 2017
Generous funding for oil boilers, LPG and night storage heaters
31 August 2017
Screen-grab of one of the maps (which are high-resolution images on WPD's website)
WPD publishes our analysis of vulnerability to support fuel poverty action
15 June 2017
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