Providing advice and guidance to installers on good practice in delivering energy efficiency services to low-income householders.
Developing national qualifications and managing their implementation to improve standards of practical work and the quality of energy advice.
Managing demonstration projects in inner cities and rural areas which show innovative ways of tackling fuel poverty and bring the wider benefits of energy efficiency to local communities.
This definition has been accepted and used by successive Government Departments with responsibilities for fuel poverty issues to quantify the extent of the problem.
Fuel poverty results from a combination of low household income, unaffordable energy costs and inadequate thermal insulation and inefficient and uneconomic heating systems.