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Energy poverty and its detrimental effects on health are now commonplace in the UK and globally. With the energy crisis showing no signs of abating, Chris Baraniuk looks for solutions
A couple admitted to hospital with hypothermia because they couldn’t afford heating.
A man who spent hours a day lying in bed, covered in blankets.
A woman who said she had stopped noticing it was cold because if she allowed herself to, everything got more difficult.
“It’s harrowing,” says Danielle Butler, senior research and policy officer at the UK charity National Energy Action. She and her colleagues heard these stories four years ago while researching energy poverty in the Outer Hebrides, a storm lashed archipelago off the west coast of Scotland.
Butler says that the predicaments afflicting some in the Outer Hebrides pre-pandemic are now “commonplace” across the UK. Because of covid-19 and the energy price crisis, energy poverty has become more prevalent, including in less remote an
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