ECO Scheme Heating and Insulation Grants

The Chief Executive of the Office of Fair Trading, Clive Maxwell, has been appointed as Director General of the Consumers and Households Group at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). The DECC’s Consumers and Households Group is responsible for improving energy efficiency and helping both domestic and business customers to obtain the lowest […]

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Government review into energy supply problems Yesterday the RT Hon ED Davey MP, Energy Secretary for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, met with Ofgem, The Energy Networks Association and energy Distribution Network Operators to discuss how they reacted to household power cuts caused by some of the worst winter weather seen in decades.  […]

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Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary, is involved in negotiations to move the green levy which pays for ECO (including the Affordable Warmth scheme) from energy bills to general taxation.  This could result in an average £53 annual reduction in energy bills from as early as next month.  ECO (Energy Company Obligation) was introduced […]

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Following recent above inflation price rises introduced by British Gas, Scottish Power and npower, the Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that he plans to halve the green levies on electricity and gas bills to help consumers.  He is also considering a windfall tax on energy companies following comments by his predecessor Sir John Major […]

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In a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron from the Energy Bill Revolution, an alliance against fuel poverty which includes Age UK and Barnardo’s, it is claimed that the UK is the second worst in Europe for householders suffering from fuel poverty.  Fuel poverty is defined as applying to those households which spend at least […]

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There are as many as seven different social and environmental policies which are funded through household energy bills as green levies, rather than through general taxation and together they amount for 9% or around £110 of everyone’s electricity and gas bills.  Whilst less than 25% of the green levy subsidises renewable energy sources such as […]

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At the Labour Party conference in Brighton today, Ed Miliband announced that a Labour Government would freeze energy bills through to January 2017 if they won the 2015 general election.  Such a move, which would be backed by legislation, could save the average household £120 and businesses £1,800 but would cost energy suppliers up to […]

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