The report also finds that the number of households experiencing fuel poverty has increased, despite a range of Mayoral and Government initiatives.
A household is deemed to experience fuel poverty when it spends over 10 per cent of its income on energy for heating, lighting, and cooking.
Assembly Members want energy companies to fund a successor to the Mayor’s RE:NEW home insulation scheme and greater take-up of the Warm Home Discount.
The report also calls for energy companies, local authorities and other stakeholders to use a new online data tool to help target the support they provide.
Committee Chair Victoria Borwick said: “More and more people are finding keeping their home warm unaffordable as fuel prices rise faster than incomes. Fuel poverty is having a major effect on the health of Londoners, from the very young to the elderly, as well as costing the NHS significant sums of money each year.
“The energy companies and all levels of government have a part to play in helping prevent households falling into fuel poverty and our report sets out practical ideas to help achieve this.”
The full report can be downloaded from the London Assembly website.
Robin says
March 13, 2012 at 7:31 pmYes also EON =German owned, EDF=French ,Thames Water=Australian/Chinese owned, money going out of UK. Partr nationalise Utilities,especially Nuclear power makes NO sense to depend on France nuclear, as Uranium is from Canada,Australia… Still lib-lab-con-green establishment knows best………..not
ASLEF shrugged says
March 14, 2012 at 4:54 pmRobin – If you see Sid…tell him. 25 years later we suffer the consequences.
Peter Hulme Cross says
March 15, 2012 at 12:56 amThis report is just ‘tinkering at the edges’ of the problem.
The real cause is the Climate Change Act 2008 which committed the UK to over-ambitious goals of sourcing electrical power from ‘renewable’ sources ie. wind power by 2020. The Utility Companies are bound by law to source a proportion of their power from ‘renewables’. The Government’s intention is that less and less energy will come from coal and gas and more and more from over 32000 wind turbines which will be erected over the next few years, paid for by the Utility Companies, who will then recoup the cost from us, the consumer. The cost of electricity from wind turbines is at least four times that from coal and gas and we still have to have gas fired power stations as back up for when the wind doesn’t blow, so we are effectively paying twice over. Of course electricity bills are going to go up, no matter which supplier you choose. They are going to go up by at least 31% for domestic consumers and 33% for industry over the next 8 years taking no other factors in to consideration. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that more and more people will be experiencing fuel poverty. And this is OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT POLICY as laid down by Act of Parliament and SUPPORTED BY ALL THREE MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES.
For more information, here is a link to a report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation
http://thegwpf.org/uk-news/5150-new-report-economic-analysis-reveals-wind-power-worse-than-a-mistake.html