FPA EDUCATIONAL SERIES

Fuel For Thought

from fuel poverty to climate justice

Fuel For Thought is a series of monthly collective learning sessions run by Fuel Poverty Action. A space to share research and lived experience, tackle lies, clear up confusion and answer questions.

Session 7: Heat Networks, the marmite heating solution. - 18th April, 6.30pm

Heat networks, sometimes known as "district heating" are being heavily promoted by the government as a a low carbon, low cost way of heating housing estates or individual blocks. Many people have found it fulfills that promise, but others have faced constant outages without heat or hot water, no control, and astronomical prices. What’s going wrong? What can residents do about it? Since heat networks have been unregulated, will the coming regulation solve the problems? If you can’t keep up with heat charges, could you lose your home?

Tune in and hear

• Michael King, one of the founders of Aberdeen Heat and Power, a successful not-for-profit heat network with an explicit objective of addressing fuel poverty

• Joseph Jones, from London Tenants Federation and Fuel Poverty Action member, who lives in a heat network flat in Camden

• Ruth London, Fuel Poverty Action, who has worked to inform and support residents’ battles over heat networks on a dozen different estates.

• A member of Lambeth Tenants Heat Campaign -- council tenants have been threatened with eviction if they can’t keep up with their soaring heat bills, and have organised to prevent this

• Michelle Lewis from Phoenix Works development in Tower Hamlets, whose story is told in “Holding Feet to the FIre: Peabody tenants confront unaccountable heating and housing management”

Don't miss this important conversation!

This project is unfunded. While the sessions are free, donations to the project are warmly appreciated (please specify  'for Fuel For Thought') and will enable us to broaden the reach and scope of the sessions.