News & Updates: FPA News
Our latest blogs, updates, events, and press releases.
FPA erect wind turbines outside the Department of Energy, rallying for lower bills as prices soar
On the 1st of July, two important things happed. The government, failing to protect households from energy firms using wars to profiteer, put up our bills yet again. And FPA and allies showed up at the door of the Department for Energy, to tell Martin McCluskey MP we won’t stand for it.
Round up! Solar energy for all.
In this panel and discussion, we spoke at length about solar energy, and how to all get the full benefits, renters included.
Round up! Making retrofit work.
In this panel and discussion, we delved into the failure of government retrofitting, and how to overturn it.
1st July: Mobilise for #Make Green Fair!
Join us on 1st July to demonstrate outside the Department of Energy.
Our energy bills are set to rise by another £332 a year. We’re organising a photo stunt and handing in our 10,000 strong #MakeGreenFair petition at this critical moment to fight for fair energy pricing.
Open Letter: Make Green Fair!
More than 50 organisations tackling poverty and the climate crisis have written to Ed Miliband and Jonathan Brearley demanding a guarantee that the transition to renewable energy will reduce bills
Stop July price hikes: Make Green Fair!
Just launched! More than 50 organisations tackling poverty and the climate crisis have written to Ed Miliband and Jonathan Brearley.
We’re demanding a guarantee that the transition to renewable energy will reduce bills.
Round up! AI: Keeping Bills High
From our internet search bars to military targeting software, AI is already everywhere. In this panel and discussion, we delved into the extensive plans to build data-centres. What means for our environment, climate change, and how to ensure that the interests of communities across the UK come first.
Drax’s great big biomass rip off sends our money up in smoke
Biomass drives pollution and hikes our bills… and yet the government piles money into it. Katy Brown from Biofuelwatch explains how you’re being ripped off.
Read more about Drax’s great big biomass rip off sends our money up in smoke
FPA spoiled the Government’s party – now let’s win justice for botched Retrofit victims
The standard of so-called improvements to homes in the UK is equal to vandalism, it’s criminal. Over 30,000 homes have been damaged with 1 in 10 of these households placed in immediate health and safety danger. At a cost of £4 billion added onto our energy bills.
Round up! Mining, Militarism and Renewables.
We kicked off the new year with a session on renewable energy, mining, and the military.
Read more about Round up! Mining, Militarism and Renewables.
Causes for hope in 2026
Both in Britain and abroad, there’s clearly cause for concern. The rise of the far right, row back on green promises and politicians telling us to prepare for war.
But wins in 2025 tell us that their austerity agenda can be beaten, argues Stu Bretherton.
Round up! How to run the economy for people and planet.
Amal recaps our November Fuel For Thought educational session, which focuses on economic ideas.
With Nuri Syed-Corser leading the conversation on the super-rich, and global tax-justice in an age of UN Tax Convention. And Councillor Matthew Brown, on novel approaches and ideas to reverse decades of economic hardship in Preston.
Read more about Round up! How to run the economy for people and planet.
