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Energy justice

We have around 60 projects on the go at any one time, each helping us meet our charitable goals of finding solutions to the threat of climate change and the misery of cold homes. Unless you're viewing this page on a mobile device, our projects below are organised by our work areas (home energy, local energy, research and policy analysis) and by topic.

Who pays the price and who benefits from the transition to a smarter energy system?

Smart and Fair?

Paro Konar, Senior Analyst at the Department of Energy and Climate Change outlines from a government perspective what is already known about the distributional impacts of UK climate policy: who wins and who loses out.

30th anniversary policy workshop (London, 2009)

Policy analysis

Delegates arriving for the conference

30th anniversary conference (Bristol, 2009)

PIAG is exploring how we could best realise the potentially significant public interest benefits of installing smart meters in every home.

Smart Meter Energy Data Public Interest Advisory Group (PIAG)

Policy analysis

Tash and Jenna, the new WHAM fuel poverty caseworkers.

WHAM - Collaborating to solve poverty in Bristol

Working in partnership to help pre-payment meter customers

Working in partnership to help pre-payment meter customers

How can we use - in the public interest - the data that millions of smart meters like this or similar will generate?

Smart meter energy data: Exploring the public interest agenda

Many households are under-heated in winter, because their energy bills are unaffordable – this has knock-on negative effects on residents' health and wellbeing

Energy tariff options for vulnerable consumers

Here, cavity wall insulation has been done to social housing. Are low-income groups generally being prepared for climate change? Do they have any say in how that happens?

Climate change and social justice: an evidence review

Infographics from the report. Click on the thumbnails below to expand them.

The distribution of UK household CO2 emissions

Exploring the fairness of energy policy

Exploring the fairness of energy policy

All households will see a reduction in their energy bills in 2020 relative to the ‘no policy’ bill. Single pensioners see the smallest reduction, suggesting they bear the brunt of the policy costs and/or stand to benefit less from the policy outcomes

Who benefits, who pays?

How should the Green Deal ensure that the measures offered by the scheme are accessible to all?

Fuel poverty can strike all types of low-income household including single unemployed and young families

Social Impact Bonds and fuel poverty

Policy analysis

Home owners who fit solar panels are contributors to UK carbon-reduction targets. But incentives like feed-in tariffs are funded by energy companies who recoup the costs from their customers, irrespective of their wealth. Is this fair?

Distributional impacts of UK climate change policies

Policy analysis

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