Research
There are several universities
with departments carrying out research into
aspects of fuel poverty. Many of these are
listed on the Links
page.
NRFC research reports
Better the Devil you know?
- The impact on low income households of South
West Gas Competition.
Houghton, Winter and King (1997) –
a NRFC/CSE research report.
Competitive Energy Markets
and Low Income Consumers
A NRFC/CSE research report (March 2001)
Interviewed 300 low income households 4 times
each over a two year period to establish effects
of competition.
Further information from the Centre
for Sustainable Energy, Create Centre,
Smeaton Road, Bristol BS1 6XN.
Competition for the poor -
Liberalization of electricity supply and fuel
poverty : lessons from Great Britain and Northern
Ireland.
Brenda Boardman and Tina Fawcett (March
2002) published by the Environmental Change
Unit, Oxford University.
Too Big to be Warm - Fuel Poverty
and under-occupation in private homes.
Hugh Bown, Alison Curtis, George Henderson
and Trevor Houghton (2002)
Realistic assessment of under-occupation and
some analysis of part house heating.
Other Reports
Initial
review of main fuel poverty research and publications
Report to DTI by Professor John Chesshire
(JohnChesshire@aol.com)
April 2002
Fuel
Poverty Research Centre scoping study
By Brenda Boardman & Jane Palmer
Environmental Change Institute, University
of Oxford
Ron Campbell & Jenny Saunders
NEA
July 2005
Research
says Winter Fuel Payments have little effect
on pensioners’ fuel spending
By Professor Ian Walker, Economics, University
of Warwick
January 2006.
The
Economics of the Winter Fuel Allowance
By Alistair Munro
Department of Economics, Royal Holloway College,
University of London.
Aiming
High – An evaluation of the potential
contribution of Warm Front towards meeting
the Government’s fuel poverty target
in England - a report to the Eaga Partnership
Charitable Trust (Tom Sefton)
By Tom Sefton, ESRC Centre for Analysis of
Social Exclusion, London School of Economics
November 2004.
Energy
Action 89 Feature: Targeting Fuel Poverty:
Is the Government Getting Warm? - Tom
Sefton explains how Warm Front is failing
and what should be done about it.
Public Utilities Access Forum
(PUAF) - an informal
association of organisations which helps to
develop policy on the regulation
of the public utilities providing electricity,
gas, communications and water
services in England and Wales.
Joseph
Rowntree Foundation - search using “fuel
poverty” as exact phrase.
