In the National Energy Action charitable organization, which is engaged in the problems of fuel poverty, said that the number of households of Great Britain, which are not able to pay for electricity bills, threatens to achieve a record level to spring if the authorities do not accept measures. About it reports The Guardian.
It is noted that about four million British households have already been affected by fuel poverty before the increase in prices in the global energy market in October increased electricity tariffs.
In the organization reported that due to the next price increase, fuel poverty compared with the indicator of last year, another two million households can be touched upon, as a result, the total number of these households will reach the mark of six million. It will be the “highest level of fuel poverty” Britain since 1996.
According to the Executive Director of National Energy Action Adam Smevor, the number of households, which will affect the fuel poverty, in April “takes off to heaven.”