Nearly 5,000 Brits froze to death last year due to heating costs – study — RT Business News

Nearly 5,000 Brits froze to death last year due to heating costs – study — RT Business News

Source link Many vulnerable households refrain from using heating due to the high cost of energy, according to the End Fuel Poverty coalition Nearly 5,000 people died in the UK last winter due to living in cold and damp homes as they could not afford the rising energy costs, the latest report from the End […]

Russia’s top MP supports re-nationalizing heating infrastructure — RT Business News

Russia’s top MP supports re-nationalizing heating infrastructure — RT Business News

Source link State ownership is a way to solve the problems in the public utilities sector, according to Vyacheslav Volodin The issues affecting Russia’s public utilities sector can be solved by transferring heating networks and power generation to state ownership, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Tuesday. The statement comes as recent record-breaking cold […]

Mass failures of heating systems reported in Russia — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

Mass failures of heating systems reported in Russia — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

Source link The Ministry of Emergency Situations has been ordered to ensure the uninterrupted supply of heat and electricity to affected regions Thousands of residents in several Russian regions have been left without heating, electricity and hot water in recent days following a string of boiler room and substation accidents, which were probably caused by […]