Will anyone bat for the fuel poor? Energy poverty Former UK MP Alan Simpson writes today about an issue close to our heart in Germany: energy poverty.
It seems that the situation in the UK is not rosy, even though the country is hardly ramping up renewables. The current 'energy debate' is in danger of descending into little more than an unsavoury slanging match. Ed Miliband's price freeze proposal was a brilliant opening ploy. But in the vacuum that followed, it looked more like a policy space the Party didn't know how to fill. The moment called out for a radically different plan of what tomorrow's energy market must look like. Egged on by the Tabloid Tories, David Cameron's resurgent Right are blaming everything on 'Green' taxes, and demanding their repeal. The sad thing is they are getting away with it: decarbonisation targets are being abandoned, zero-carbon homes are off the agenda, renewable energy is under attack, 'Warm Home' grants are replaced by Mickey Mouse/Green Deal loans ...
What bloody objective? Untitled. Le Royaume-Uni, un modèle de lutte contre la précarité énergétique. «a household is said to be ‘fuel poor’ if it needs to spend more than 10 per cent of its income on fuel to maintain an adequate level of warmth»2.
En l’espace de 5 ans, la lutte contre la précarité énergétique est devenue l’une des priorités de notre gouvernement, beaucoup plus novice sur le sujet que son homologue britannique. Doit-il s’inspirer de l’expérience du Royaume-Uni? Les nouvelles mesures d’amélioration de la performance énergétique venant d’être mise en place peuvent-elles servir de modèle aux législations tricolores? Au Royaume-Uni, un ménage sur cinq en situation de précarité énergétique En 2010, le nombre de ménages en situation de précarité énergétique au Royaume-Uni a été estimé à 4,75 millions de ménages soit 19% des foyers. (Cliquez pour agrandir) Mesurée depuis 1996, la précarité énergétique au Royaume-Uni affiche un historique riche en rebondissements. La France, en retard sur le phénomène de précarité énergétique, pourrait s’inspirer de l’expérience du Royaume-Uni R. Five Surprising Facts About Energy Poverty. The world needs to double or triple its current spending—estimated at about $400 billion a year—to meet the United Nations' goal of bringing clean and modern electricity to all people by 2030, says a new report by a wide group of international agencies led by the World Bank.
Although nations are succeeding in bringing power to more people, those efforts have barely kept pace with population growth over the past two decades, said the report, released Tuesday in Vienna. As a result, about 1.2 billion people—nearly as many as the entire population of India—still live without access to electricity, while 2.8 billion people rely on wood, crop waste, dung, and other biomass to cook and heat their homes.
Unless the world addresses the widespread problem of energy poverty, the World Bank said, other efforts at economic development are likely to fall short.