Ministers have announced a major clean energy package, including:
➡️ Boiler Upgrade Scheme grants rising to £9,000 for heating oil and LPG homes
➡️ £100m to upgrade social homes
➡️ £25m pilot for plugin solar
➡️ Windfall tax raised on electricity generators
www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/government-a...
Three million households on heating oil and LPG sit outside the energy price cap with no protection when global prices spike.
An increased grant of £9,000 to help them switch to heat pumps is a step forward.
www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/heating-oil-...
The public backs extending windfall taxes to more energy companies.
The Government has now raised the levy on electricity generators to incentivise them to lower costs.
Will the energy firms pick the carrot or the stick?
Read our reaction: www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/government-r...
44% of UK Adults can't afford the July increase in energy bills, and a clear majority say scrapping the Windfall Tax right now is the wrong call
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#EndFuelPoverty #TrumpTax #energybills
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🧾The Trump Tax is real
New polling from EFPC finds 76% of UK adults blame Trump for soaring energy bills, and 63% are calling the increases in their energy bills exactly what they are: a Trump Tax
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🗣️The problem? 60% say these options are out of financial reach. That's why 71% are calling for insulation grants and 68% want more support for solar and heat pumps.
The Trump Tax is driving bills up. The public knows what brings them down for good.
#EndFuelPoverty #TrumpTax #EnergyBills
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Since the Iran conflict began, 35% of adults have become more interested in home energy technology. Solar panels top the list, followed by insulation, plug-in solar and heat pumps. The appetite for getting off the fossil fuel rollercoaster is real.
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📋New polling lays it bare: 76% of UK adults blame Trump for rising energy bills. 83% are worried about what's coming. And 44% say they simply cannot afford the £228 annual increase hitting bills from 1 July.
But the public isn't just angry, they're thinking ahead.
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📝Our polling shows that the public backs a continuation of the Windfall Tax on energy firm profits by two-to-one. The means to fund this support exists.
#EndFuelPoverty #energybills
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These figures land as forecasts point to another energy bill rise from July.
🗣️The Coalition is calling on the Government to use the next price cap period as a moment to act: targeted bill support, action on energy debt, and reform of how energy costs are structured.
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📋New research out today puts numbers to what many households are already living through: 31% of people have been cutting back on essentials like food and heating, 66% are worried about their finances, and over half are carrying debt.
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At the same time, 83% of the public are worried about rising energy bills.
The case for keeping the Windfall Tax has never been stronger with voters backing it by more than two to one.
Ministers should direct these funds to households that need support during this energy crisis.
#EndFuelPoverty
🗣️BP calling its Iran war likely trading results “exceptional” tells you everything you need to know about who is winning and who is losing.
While households face a £480 hit to their finances and cut back on heating and food, oil giants are expecting huge trading profits.
Politicians calling for it to be scrapped aren't listening to their own voters.👇
Read more here: www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/eight-in-ten...
#EndFuelPoverty #WindfallTax #EnergyBills
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With 83% of the public worried about rising energy bills and nearly half saying they couldn't afford the predicted £228 annual increase, this is not the moment to hand a tax break to the energy industry.
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📊New polling commissioned by the End Fuel Poverty Coalition makes one thing clear: the public back the Windfall Tax.
Across every party and every region of the country, voters say it would be wrong to scrap the Windfall Tax now.
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📰Read more: www.mirror.co.uk/money/mega-w...
#EndFuelPoverty #EnergyBills #CostOfLiving
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The backers of the energy industry have rarely had it so good, while millions of people across the UK can't afford to keep their homes warm.
If the Government is serious about using windfall tax revenues to help people with their bills, it must resist that lobbying pressure.
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📈The investment firms profiting most from rising oil and gas prices are the same firms lobbying hardest against the policies that would redirect those revenues to struggling households.
That's not a coincidence. It's how the system is designed.
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The poll, commissioned by the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, finds 83% of the public are worried about rising energy costs from the Iran conflict, and 44% say they couldn't afford the expected £228 rise in bills this July. Ministers must hold firm.
#EndFuelPoverty #EnergyBills #CostOfLiving
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🗣️Despite intense lobbying from the oil and gas industry to have the Windfall Tax removed, the public backs keeping it, with 53% saying scrapping it now would be wrong and just 22% disagreeing. That support is a majority across every party and every part of the country.
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The question is whether the government will lead on that, or get distracted by a short-term argument that won't shield people in fuel poverty from the next price shock.
#EndFuelPoverty #EnergyBills #CostOfLiving
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Despite the headlines saying that Tony Blair backs more drilling in the North Sea, buried in the Tony Blair Institute's own report is the reality: even they acknowledge that electrification and greater resilience against volatile energy markets is the long-term solution.
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🗣️The last time global gas prices spiked at the outbreak of the invasion of Ukraine - household bills went through the roof regardless of domestic production. And now it’s happening again.
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This keeps happening because our energy system is tied to global oil and gas prices, leaving our bills exposed to decisions made by Trump, Putin, and the Gulf states.
We need urgent action on energy efficiency & renewables. It's the only way to break this cycle and bring bills down for good.
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The Iranian ceasefire is welcome, but it doesn't change what's already happening to energy bills.
📈For five weeks, oil and gas costs have been elevated. Households on oil and LPG are already feeling it, and from 1st July, when the next Ofgem price cap starts, everyone will.
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History is repeating itself as soaring oil and gas prices leave households facing huge energy bills while the energy industry makes huge profits.
📝Sign the petition to demand higher taxes on companies profiteering from this crisis
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...
#EndFuelPoverty
🗣️“Politicians must show whose side they are on: the households struggling with energy bills, or the millionaires calling for an early end to the Windfall Tax on North Sea profits.”
Read more: www.mirror.co.uk/money/iran-w...
#EnergyBills #EndFuelPoverty #CostOfLiving
