A blog by Green Party Councillor Andrew Cooper about Green Politics, action on Climate Change, Kirklees Council and our activity to improve the local and global environment (and also anything that I fancy talking about) Promoted and published by A Cooper, 76 Brockholes Lane, Holmfirth HD9 7EB
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
How do Councils respond to the Energy Bill Tsunami that is coming?
When the Government
funded them, I used to manage the South and West Yorkshire Energy Savings Trust Advice Centre.
We used to do a lot of easy energy saving advice measures which would have a fairly
small impact on bills over an entire year. Now these advice measures, like turning your
thermostat down 1 degree and only boiling as much hot water as you need etc, will save more money than they used to. The problem with this advice is that it all looks
a bit piecemeal when compared with the cost of living tsunami which is hurtling towards us all.
There are going to be people who can make adjustments to their heating systems
timers and thermostats that will save them hundreds of pounds but these will be
the people who can afford to keep their heating systems running. Hundreds of
thousands, if not millions of people are not going to be in that fortunate position.
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