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Smart Energy GB in Communities – grant funding now available
Smart Energy GB is the voice of the smart meter rollout. It’s their task to help everyone understand smart meters and how to get the best from them. Working with and through partnership organisations – from across the voluntary, private and public sectors – is a central part of the campaign. EAS believes that smart metering […]
READ MOREChallenge Poverty Week: Helping Families Cook
As we remain at home with the nights drawing in and no end to COVID-19 and it’s harsh restrictions in sight, I’m doubly grateful to be working from a home that’s warm & dry. I’m not stressed about the washing machine, the tumble dryer and all the other essential household goods and whether we can […]
READ MORECall for Mercy as Energy Companies Allowed to Pursue Lockdown Debts
Energy Action Scotland has today called on First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon to intervene as energy companies are permitted to pursue unpaid energy bills. With 25% of households in Scotland living in fuel poverty and 30% of the newly unemployed destined to join them, academics and organisations including AGE Scotland, the Poverty Alliance, the Child Poverty, […]
READ MORENew Chief Executive for Energy Action Scotland
For immediate release 1st April 2020 New Chief Executive for Energy Action Scotland Frazer Scott has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Energy Action Scotland. Announcing the appointment Stewart Wilson, Convener of Energy Action Scotland, said: “I am delighted that Frazer will be leading Energy Action Scotland at this critical moment in tackling fuel poverty. […]
READ MOREMore Scots Set to Freeze as Fuel Poverty Rises
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE USE ISSUED DATE: 21 January 2020 More Scots Set to Freeze as Fuel Poverty Rises One quarter of all households in Scotland are now living in fuel poverty according to the Scottish House Condition Survey released today by the Scottish Government. The number of households living in cold, damp homes […]
READ MOREEnergy Efficiency, Fuel Poverty and Sustaining Tenancies in the Private Rented Sector
As the number of new home-owners declines resulting in increasing numbers of people living in rented accommodation, Energy Action Scotland (EAS) will be hosting a breakthrough conference in Glasgow which will focus on the future regulation of energy efficiency in private rented sector (PRS) homes across Scotland. The event is for PRS landlords, whether they […]
READ MORELetter: Electric Vehicle Charge is Tax On the Fuel Poor
For immediate release Norman Kerr OBE, Director of Energy Action Scotland has today called on all political parties to reduce the burden of fuel poverty in Scotland by adding the levy on consumer bills for investment to general taxation. He asks that the infrastructure required to support a move to electric vehicles not be added […]
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