Use Crown Estate windfall to support fuel-poor households, Energy UK urges

The Treasury should use the Crown Estate’s £500 million annual offshore wind licensing profits to implement its all but abandoned pledge to support fuel poor households, Energy UK has urged. The industry umbrella group calls for the development of a framework to provide longer-term expanded support to vulnerable customers, within its submission for the Budget, which Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt is due to present on 7 March.

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