National Energy Action (NEA) and Energy Action Scotland (EAS) are the UK’s national charities aiming to end fuel poverty. For two decades, we have published a yearly investigative report on progress to eliminate fuel poverty across the UK and within each of the four UK nations.
This year’s UK Fuel Poverty Monitor, covering the period 2021 to 2022, considers the causes of the energy crisis as well as how it has impacted fuel poor households and the organisations that work to support them.
The report findings are stark, the personal impacts of high prices on households are exceptionally acute. For households on the lowest incomes, living in the least efficient homes, the impossible cost of this essential service is devastating. The severity of the situation has prompted the energy crisis and its impacts to be one of the most prominent public policy challenges facing the UK in recent history. Our polling suggests that 81% say they will ration energy this winter, while 55% are already rationing hot water, and 13% are reducing use of medical equipment. Many of the most vulnerable households are falling through the gaps of national or local assistance schemes, receiving little or no support to get them through the most egregious situations.
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