Charity calls for rural homes to be connected to mains grid

BBC reports that about 97,000 homes in Northumberland and County Durham suffered power cuts caused by Storm Malik and Storm Corrie over the weekend

Charity Community Action Northumberland (CAN) has called for more to be done to connect homes to the electricity grid. According to CAN, it is estimated more than 350 houses in the county are off-grid, with a total of 2,000 across England.

The charity said, "very little progress has been made" to get households connected and as the UK makes the "essential shift away from fossil fuels", with the situation becoming "increasingly urgent".

Community development officer Christine Nicholls said most off-grid households spent about £6,000 a year on power, adding that "most people run a generator which is pure carbon going up into the atmosphere and that generator probably runs between two and four hours a day”.

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