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Fuel Poverty: Design and Demonstration Unit

The Design and Demonstration Unit is a team, of private sector secondees, based in DTI, which carries out work in support of Energy White Paper objectives, particularly in respect of fuel poverty.  The Unit has undertaken extensive research and designed and delivered projects to assist the fuel poor on a community basis.

In 2006, it began work on partnership programmes with the Regional Development Agencies in the North-East and Yorkshire and Humberside to assist 4,000 low-income households in forty communities.  These programmes will help demonstrate approaches to alleviating fuel poverty, including the provision of mains gas connections and associated measures to deprived communities, and the provision of cost-effective renewables technologies where connection to the gas network is not economically viable.

The DDU's first Annual Report, published in 2005 gives further details of its work.

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