Highlights from CIED/ACE roundtable event by Nora Blascsok Making our homes as comfortable and aesthetically pleasing as possible is an aspiration of many. However, not enough people realise that measures to make their homes more energy efficient can also deliver these outcomes. How do we make sure people know about this and care? What is …
Tag: Fuel poverty
CIED researcher invited to join Mayor of London Fuel Poverty Partnership
Dr Mari Martiskainen has been invited to join the Mayor of London Fuel Poverty Partnership.
Solar stories: prosuming and energy resilience
The Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand (CIED) Communications Team crossed the train tracks to attend a talk at the University of Brighton Falmer campus hosted by Boingboing, an organisation providing opportunities to learn about resilience. This time their Resilience Forum featured a speaker from SPRU, Dr Nicolette Allen, who was invited to talk about …
Fuel Poverty Awareness Day
According to a new report by National Energy Action (NEA) , a national charity seeking to end fuel poverty, the UK has the sixth worst long-term rate of excess winter mortality out of 30 European countries, with an average of 9,700 deaths per year attributed to cold homes. Fuel poverty can affect the most vulnerable …
As the temperature drops… Energy advice for energy poverty alleviation
Blog by Louise Sunderland. As the weather turned really cold for the first time last month the UK government published its latest piece of research into fuel poverty (energy poverty) – a report on the behaviours and attitudes of the fuel poor. The research report contains some interesting if not wholly new insights into the …
Energy bills, consumer power and beyond
Reflections on the 7th Big Energy Saving Week by Nora Blascsok Events across the country are taking place this week to create public awareness around saving money on energy bills. The Big Energy Saving Week is an initiative run by Citizens Advice, the Energy Saving Trust and the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy …
Community action addressing fuel poverty
Dr Mari Martiskainen speaks on how community groups are addressing fuel poverty in the UK. All welcome!
Energy cafes can play a key role in targeting fuel poverty, argues new report
Community-run energy advice centres or ‘energy cafés’, can play a key role in targeting fuel poverty, according to a new report published today.
Community action addressing fuel poverty
Mari is going to present her research on energy cafes and fuel poverty. All welcome!
CIED researcher discusses fuel poverty at Brighton General Hospital
Dr Mari Martiskainen was invited to give a presentation on her fuel poverty research to a ‘Care without Carbon’ session at Brighton General Hospital.
Why fuel poverty is an issue as urgent as climate change
Dr Mari Martiskainen, Research Fellow at CIED, talks about fuel poverty and her work on energy cafes. Find out more about the Fuel Bill Drop Shop Project. Why fuel poverty is an issue as urgent as climate change from University of Sussex on Vimeo. …
The Fuel Bill Drop Shop Project
Energy shops provide advice about energy issues to the public. Does advice through energy shops work, with whom and under what circumstances?
Warmer, Healthier and Fairer: Tackling Fuel Poverty
Dr Mari Martiskainen was one of the key speakers at ‘Warmer, Healthier and Fairer: Tackling Fuel Poverty’ event organised by Public Policy Exchange. Other key speakers at the event included MP Alan Whitehead, James Kerry, Senior Policy Advisor at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as well as Paul Massara, member of the …
Equity and justice in the energy system – the case of fuel poverty in the UK
We are again getting to the time of the year when the days are getting shorter and the nights colder. Many of us are turning our heating on, without having to think too much about it. However, many others are in a situation where they cannot afford heating in their homes and this time of …
CIED researchers speak at Green Lib Dems event on environment policy after Brexit
Dr Mari Martiskainen and Dr Jan Rosenow were invited speakers at a Green Lib Dems event on ‘How should we protect the environment outside the EU?’ that took place in Brighton on 17 September. The other invited speakers were Baroness Parminter (LibDem Spokesperson for Environment and Rural Affairs) and Sir Graham Watson (former LibDem MEP). …
The politics of grassroots innovations set out by CIED researcher at SCORAI conference
Grassroots innovations can have unforeseen but important political dimensions that go beyond their immediate communities, argues Dr Mari Martiskainen at the second international Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) conference
Fuel poverty research presented to Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
2.35 million households in England living in poor quality, energy inefficient housing have to decide each winter whether to ‘eat or heat’. They live in cold homes because they can’t afford to pay their fuel bills and then suffer from respiratory illnesses which have long-term effects on their health and wellbeing, and sometimes fatal consequences. …
CIED gives evidence on energy efficiency to the House of Commons
CIED Senior Research Fellow, Dr Jan Rosenow, will be an expert witness to a House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee inquiry into the Green Deal.
Professor Sovacool presents research on the UK’s fuel poverty strategy in Westminster
Benjamin Sovacool, Director of the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand, presented research to the Westminster Energy, Environment and Transport Forum.
Home Energy Efficiency is a “win-win” says UK Energy Committee report, which cites CIED research
Research by CIED has helped to inform the recently published UK Energy and Climate Change Committee report on Home Energy Efficiency.