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Energy we can all afford? – a national programme of meetings

This winter a coalition of national organisations is organising a programme of over 40 major public meetings on fuel poverty and clean energy.

These will take place across the UK with local MPs and other national speakers. The theme is ‘Energy we can all afford? Warmer Homes, Lower Bills, Cooler Planet’.

CEA are pleased to announce that we have been asked to coordinate this programme. We will be working with a coalition that includes Friends of the Earth,  the Energy Bill Revolution (EBR) coalition, Stop Climate Chaos, the Low Carbon Communities Network and Greenpeace UK. These organisations link around 200 national organisations and hundreds of community groups and networks.

The theme links many current concerns. Energy prices have risen rapidly, chiefly because of our increasing dependence on gas, and millions are trapped in fuel poverty: we need a new and positive approach to this based on energy efficiency and clean sustainable energy.

The programme has three aims. One is to influence the Energy Bill that will be going through Parliament: the second is to call on the Government to use the money it gets from our carbon taxes to make our homes super-energy efficient – driving down our energy bills forever. The third aim is to boost local interest and engagement with these issues.

These will be ‘Question Time’ style meetings with panels including an MP. This will be a powerful way to link work on energy and cutting carbon with issues around fuel poverty. We want to hear the views of MPs on the UK’s energy future and for them to answer people’s questions.

The first meetings are already being set and a website for the process is under development. Watch this space for more information.  If you’ve not checked out the Energy Bill Revolution coalition, it is focusing on investment in tackling fuel poverty and links around 120 organisations from commercial companies ASDA, the Co-op and Confused.com to voluntary sector bodies including the Childrens Society, MENCAP, and the National Pensioners Convention. www.energybillrevolution.org

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