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Who is in fuel poverty? The government has no idea as it moves to cut winter fuel payments

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par Brenda Boardman, Emeritus Research Fellow in Energy, University of Oxford

Energy is an unusual commodity as it imposes running costs and capital expenditure. The main way to permanently reduce running costs is to spend money on more efficient use of energy: better insulated homes, more modern boilers, new appliances. Energy price rises since 2020 have provided the incentive to better-off households to focus on these improvements and make the switch to self-generation by installing solar panels.

Unfortunately, not everyone has the savings to make these purchases. Many of the poorest households have little or no cash, and anything they did have has been largely…

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