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Foundation Reignites Fuel Poverty Agenda

The recent cold snap means the 320,000 households in Wales which need to spend more than 10% of their income on fuel to keep their homes at an acceptable temperature face tough choices. Should they feed the electricity meter or feed the kids? Or heat one room, leaving the rest of their home icy cold?

The Bevan Foundation is pleased to have just won a grant from the Scottish Power Energy People Trust to find out how people on low incomes make decisions about heating their homes.

Help currently offered to low income households includes free home insulation and advice on energy efficiency. But it is not clear if households know about the help on offer or if it is effective. A Fuel Poverty Researcher will be joining the Bevan Foundation team and will be involved in interviewing more than 100 households in March to find out how they decide to heat their homes and their experiences of help with fuel poverty.

We expect the final report to be released in the Autumn in time for Winter 2010/11.


                                                                                                                          

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