Publications

The paper concludes that a significant share of students experience fuel poverty and sophisticated social intervention and social innovation should be adopted to address this.

Cities in China have undergone considerable transformation in recent decades with unprecedented economic growth, rural to urban migration and a rapidly emerging middle class all contributing to increased energy consumption.

Concern about fairness in the retail energy market is clear from media headlines and the passing of legislation to impose a ‘wide’ price cap in the retail energy market in 2018. ‘Fairness in Retail Energy Markets?

SMART-UP is a cross-European research project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 grant fund. Running from March 2015 to July 2018, it took place in five European countries and was delivered through a consortium of five partner organisations:

Energy is essential to human survival. Supplying energy to all citizens is a requirement for social well-being and for a country’s economic development. The aim of this chapter is to discuss the differences in the availability of electricity around the world.

The analysis focused specifically on outcomes at the household level (recipients of measures) and outcomes at an operational and delivery level (delivery partners). 

This paper tracks the proportion of household expenditure devoted to energy between 1992 and 2014, implementing a major new correction to energy expenditure for households with prepayment meters, who tend to be low income households.

This study proposes a method for calculating energy loss across building envelopes based on the exploitation of cadastral data with open source IT tools.

This study by the Italian Energy Regulator describes the status of implementation of the Energy Bonus in Italy, which exists both for electricity and gas vulnerable customers.