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Feeling the heat (or not)

A fifth of UK households suffer fuel poverty while energy giants cash in.

By Tess Riley

Last month, secretary of state for energy and climate change Chris Huhne issued the government’s latest energy report. The Electricity Market Reform (EMR) white paper makes clear how keen the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is to promote investment in gas, despite the fact that the fossil fuel’s prices are currently sky-rocketing.

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