Übersetzung für "Fuel poverty" in Deutsch

Renewable energy should also be a means of relieving fuel poverty.

However these methods can fuel poverty and increase environmental degradation elsewhere.

AK is intensively dealing with the issue of fuel poverty.

EU red tape is strangling our entrepreneurs and the carbon-tax scam is plunging millions into deadly fuel poverty.

We also agree that there should be an emphasis on fuel poverty.

He concluded by reasserting the EESC's commitment to a stronger effort to address fuel poverty at EU level.

For the last decade, the Warm Front Scheme was Government's key scheme to tackle fuel poverty.

The first prize went to the Hungarian project Against Fuel Poverty with Biomass Briquettes.

Are policymakers doing enough to tackle fuel poverty?

However, I would not like to leave this House without saying that, in areas like my own in Northern Ireland, areas of high energy costs, there also needs to be some work done to take account of those who are disadvantaged - where there are high levels of fuel poverty amongst disadvantaged people, where we have an economic base which relies on small business - when considering the costs of tackling climate change.

We talk about energy efficiency in the context of climate change and of fuel poverty, but energy efficiency is also of huge strategic importance.

I would like to focus particular attention on the definition of fuel poverty and on making it impossible to cut off supplies, as well as on the possibility of switching suppliers free of charge and on easy-to-understand, transparent agreements.

This scheme would succeed, therefore, in addressing the worst consequences of fuel poverty which are having an extremely negative effect on many people - if this scheme were to be used properly.

The fact is that our obsession with renewables is already driving up the cost of electricity and forcing European citizens into fuel poverty.

This would include, for example, the financial support mechanisms put in place by states or local authorities for paying bills (subsidised rates, energy cheques, etc.), a "winter truce", setting up one-stop shops, training energy efficiency advisers (e.g. the European Achieve project), re-developing neighbourhoods, bringing in funding or technical assistance for energy efficiency work (e.g. the European CEB-ELENA project "European Local Energy Assistance Facility") or for the micro-production of renewable energy, as well as financing arrangements set up for vulnerable households (e.g. the European FinSH project - Financial and Support Instruments for Fuel Poverty in Social Housing).

Although the lack of relevant statistics and studies mean there are no reliable data on the number of people affected, by comparing the known variables and taking account of a number of studies that have been published, it is estimated that, in Europe, at least 50 million people are afflicted by energy poverty (Tackling Fuel Poverty in Europe.

At a human level these will include safety, fuel poverty and the access of vulnerable groups to affordable supply.

In addition, more focused measures are needed for vulnerable consumers to address energy and fuel poverty effectively.

Special measures may also be taken to ensure the protection of the most vulnerable citizens, particularly in terms of fuel poverty.

The EU must step up its efforts to combat fuel poverty which affects a growing number of EU citizens, according to Staffan Nilsson, president of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).