At least a third of Germans on low incomes may not be able to pay increasingly high energy bills, the German Tenants’ Association (DMB) has warned, urging the government to make changes to housing programs. “That’s a hell of a lot of people,” Lukas Siebenkotten, the DMB’s chief, told newspaper …
Read More »Asthmatics in UK torn between new inhalers and heating bills – media
The sharp increase in the cost of living in the UK has stretched to national medical services and is causing more British families to fall into the ‘vulnerable’ category, The Independent reports, citing clinicians across the country. Last month, the rate of inflation in the UK rose to 7% – …
Read More »Majority of Swiss refuse to pay more for fuel & heating to meet climate change goals – survey
The 2050 carbon neutrality goals, outlined by the Switzerland authorities, are out of step with the population’s readiness to pay increasingly higher bills to fund them, according to a new survey. The poll, conducted among some 23,000 people, was commissioned by the Tamedia and 20 Minuten media groups early in …
Read More »Choose between heating and eating: It’s IMMORAL to reduce Universal Credit ahead of winter
The British government has placed itself in an unenviable position: it can either stick with the Tory principle of economic prudence, or it can be seen to be throwing the most vulnerable in society to the wolves. Indeed, the Independent Food Aid Network, which is a network of over 500 …
Read More »New American military base in Pacific would show how US-China cold war is heating up fast
Few people in the west are likely to have heard of a nation called Palau, an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean. Located close to Papua New Guinea and the Philippines, it boasts a population of only 17,000 people, less than the average small town. Do not let its size …
Read More »A third of people in Bulgaria can’t pay heating bills
Millions of Europeans can’t heat their homes in winter. In some cases, for the warmth you have to pay up to 1000 Euro per month. In poor households the situation is aggravated by the quality of the houses. Russian flats residents until cold. However, there is a problem of low …
Read More »On several streets of Kiev suddenly turned on the heating
Heating appeared in the middle of August. In houses of inhabitants of the capital have a warm battery. According to residents, yesterday, August 14, the heating came on Bogatyrskaya str., 47. Kiev say that the included heating on street in Yerevan.
Read More »The heating season in Kiev was in jeopardy
Dispute should be resolved until the autumn. Since August without hot water can be a Kiev, who until recently received it without interruption of CHP 5 and 6. These heat and power plant will come under the management of the company “Kievteploenergo”, and that there is no gas to heat …
Read More »In Kiev found a way to save on heating in schools
Savings first and foremost. 200 Kiev schools has established a system of remote control, which reduce the cost of energy resources. This was at a meeting with journalists said the Deputy head of Kyiv city state administration Petr Panteleyev. “This year we launched the system of remote management of heating …
Read More »In Kiev promised to reduce prices for heating and hot water
NKREKU changed the cost of Central heating and hot water. As it became known, the tariffs for utility services provided by PJSC “Kyivenergo” will reduce on average by 4%. The decision was taken at a meeting of the national Commission on 28 December 2017. According to the decision of the …
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