gas
27 Nov 2024
Households not connected to the gas network
Rising energy bills and changes the Government is introducing to how we heat our homes means that it is important that local councils know the make-up of their local area...
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20 Mar 2023
Rural Fuel Poverty Gap widens
Annual Fuel Poverty Statistics published on 28 Feb 2023 for the year 2022 show that in 2022, households living in rural areas have a higher rate of fuel poverty and...
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19 Dec 2022
Additional cost of living payment will be paid to millions of households who use oil, LPG or biomass boilers to heat homes
Chronicle Live reports that North East families living in rural County Durham and Northumberland who have no mains gas will be receiving an additional £200 cost of living payment in...
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07 Nov 2022
Calls for more help for off-grid energy homes
The BBC report that more support is needed for homes relying on heating oil or Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), according to councillors in Oxfordshire The government is giving off-grid energy...
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11 Jul 2022
Reaching Rural Properties
The Yorkshire Post reports on a new report launched by Localis, an independent think tank, titled Reaching Rural Properties: Off Grid heating in the transition to net zero The article...
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13 Jun 2022
Westminster Hall Debate on off gas grid homes
David Jones MP for Clwyd West, a rural constituency in Wales is supporting a Westminster Hall Debate on Thursday 16th June on ‘The Future of low-carbon off-gas grid home and...
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11 Apr 2022
Decarbonisation of off gas grid heating
The Rural Coalition has recently written to the Rt Hon. Greg Hands MP (Minister of State for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change) to raise concerns regarding the recently released...
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28 Feb 2022
Rural homes facing months without heating because of LPG gas shortage
The i news reports that rural households facing months without heating due to major delays in liquid gas deliveries have pleaded with the government to help restore affordable supplies Around...
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08 Feb 2022
Charity calls for rural homes to be connected to mains grid
BBC reports that about 97,000 homes in Northumberland and County Durham suffered power cuts caused by Storm Malik and Storm Corrie over the weekend Charity Community Action Northumberland (CAN) has...
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17 Jan 2022
Millions of rural homes forced into expensive eco upgrades
The Telegraph has reported how rural areas will be disproportionately affected by the heating crisis over the next decade amid plans to ban fossil fuel systems in off-grid homes The...
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