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'I have cancer and I'm worried about heating this winter': Energy price cap will leave 6.3 million households in fuel poverty
Wise/ Energy Bills
Energy bills

'I have cancer and I'm worried about heating this winter': Energy price cap will leave 6.3 million households in fuel poverty

Solar power: How much money can you really save with renewable energy?
Solar panels

Solar power: How much money can you really save with renewable energy?

What does the UK's current energy mix look like today – and in the future?
Electric socket illustration
Earth day

What does the UK's current energy mix look like today – and in the future?

New report predicts the first global drop in fossil fuel-generated electricity due to renewable energy growth
solar panels renewable energy
Renewable Energy

New report predicts the first global drop in fossil fuel-generated electricity due to renewable energy growth

41,000 vulnerable households had their energy debt written off in Catalonia. Is the UK government listening?
energy debt spain
Cost of living crisis

41,000 vulnerable households had their energy debt written off in Catalonia. Is the UK government listening?

'£3.3billion for them. Debt and starvation for me': Vulnerable customers on British Gas's record profits
British Gas
British Gas

'£3.3billion for them. Debt and starvation for me': Vulnerable customers on British Gas's record profits

What are my rights if I can't afford to pay my energy bills?
energy bills
Energy bills

What are my rights if I can't afford to pay my energy bills?

Renewable energy: How does the UK compare to other countries?
Rampion offshore wind farm in the UK producing renewable energy
Renewable Energy

Renewable energy: How does the UK compare to other countries?

Millions are going without heating or hot water because they can't afford to top up their meter
prepayment meters/ cold dark home
Cost of living crisis

Millions are going without heating or hot water because they can't afford to top up their meter

How to prepare for blackouts in the UK this winter
power cuts/ blackouts
Energy crisis

How to prepare for blackouts in the UK this winter

Having your energy bills paid is now a prize on a TV competition
ITV This Morning/ Energy Bills
Cost of living crisis

Having your energy bills paid is now a prize on a TV competition

'Devastating', 'horrifying', 'unthinkable': Think tanks urge action to protect households from energy price rises
A hand points to buttons on a gas boiler
Energy bills

'Devastating', 'horrifying', 'unthinkable': Think tanks urge action to protect households from energy price rises

Oil and gas workers are being put off renewable jobs by huge training costs
Environment

Oil and gas workers are being put off renewable jobs by huge training costs

CO2 crisis: Why you shouldn’t panic buy
lorry driver shortage
News

CO2 crisis: Why you shouldn’t panic buy

Why banning halogen lightbulbs will help the climate
LED bulbs last nearly twelve times as long as halogen lightbulbs and cost less to run in the long term.
Environment

Why banning halogen lightbulbs will help the climate

‘Woefully inadequate’ energy efficiency plans could make net zero impossible
Up to £1bn of the Green Homes Grant fund was not spent.
Environment

‘Woefully inadequate’ energy efficiency plans could make net zero impossible

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Home heating is 'unaffordable' for 1 in 10 Scots
News

Home heating is 'unaffordable' for 1 in 10 Scots

Heat from the Northern line will be piped into London homes
Environment

Heat from the Northern line will be piped into London homes

Energy companies must do more for vulnerable customers, say experts
News

Energy companies must do more for vulnerable customers, say experts

Energy providers are forcing prepaid meters on vulnerable customers
Fuel poverty/ Image of gas hob
Money

Energy providers are forcing prepaid meters on vulnerable customers