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Project on green heat for the poor
A RESEARCH project at Sheffield Hallam University is investigating how hard-up families may in future benefit from a new generation of clean energy sources.
In charge of the project is Dr Fin O'Flaherty from the university's Materials and Engineering Research Institute, with the help of funding from the charitable trust Eaga.
The study is seen as a vital part of the Government's strategy for cutting back the country's carbon emissions by 80 per cent.
Helping Dr O'Flaherty is Dr James Pinder of Positive Sum Ltd, and they are looking at how homes may be heated in the decades to come.
"Binding targets to cut CO2 emissions will encourage all of us to adopt more low carbon lifestyles," Dr O'Flaherty said.
Over the next two years the project will collect detailed analysis of the energy generation and consumption data of two groups of houses which will be fitted with renewable energy technologies.
Government advisory body the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group has warned rising unemployment and higher energy prices are pushing more people into fuel poverty - where they are spending more than 10 per cent of their household income on heating.
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