These policy position statements show EAS’s position on various matters relating to fuel poverty such as rural fuel poverty, national pricing, renewable energy, fuel poverty and health and more.
EAS Policy Position Statement – Energy Market
Energy Action Scotland believes that it is fundamental to have a transparent energy market that consumers understand. This requires better information, simplification and the ability to easily compare and contrast different tariffs from different suppliers. Energy Action Scotland welcomed the referring of the energy market to the Competition and Market’s Authority by Ofgem and the […]
READ MOREEAS Policy Position Statement – Fuel Poverty
Fuel poverty should not exist. It is a fundamental necessity in every person’s life should be to have a warm, dry home which is affordable to heat. Energy Action Scotland believes that having a warm, dry home is a human right, which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 25 makes reference to. In this […]
READ MOREEAS Policy Position Statement – Fuel Poverty and Health
The World Health Organisation estimates that 30% of winter deaths are caused by cold housing. In Scotland this means that six people die every day of winter from causes directly attributable to fuel poverty. Scotland has integrated health and social care to improve outcomes and support disease prevention. By tackling the causes of ill health […]
READ MOREEAS Policy Position Statement – Rural Fuel Poverty
Energy Action Scotland acknowledges the particular difficulties faced by the fuel poor in rural areas. These include: higher fuel costs lack of access to the mains gas grid premiums on energy challenging housing stock difficulty getting companies delivering energy efficiency measures to operate in some areas Consumers in rural areas off the mains gas grid […]
READ MOREEAS Policy Position Statement – Rural Fuel Poverty
Energy Action Scotland considers that there still needs to be a publicly funded programme for those who cannot afford to pay for energy efficiency measures and energy advice and is concerned at the Scottish Government’s increasing focus on loans instead of grants as methods of support. Energy Action Scotland believes that a free, accessible, single […]
READ MOREEAS Policy Position Statement – The broader energy landscape
Energy Action Scotland is supportive of UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 and the corresponding Scottish National Outcome on Environment, which is to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy. Energy Action Scotland is not an environmental group and has been primarily focussed on the deleterious social effects of fuel poverty but as an […]
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