The Spanish National Strategy Against Energy Poverty Open for Consultation

A new Spanish National Strategy Against Energy Poverty (ENPE) draft for 2025-2030 has been launched for public consultation, introducing 12 priority actions: ensuring universal access to energy as a basic right, improving access to the social bonus, prohibiting abusive commercial practices, expanding housing renovation support, and creating a national observatory for energy poverty. Crucially, it also integrates summer energy poverty by including the inability to cool homes during heat waves as a key indicator. 

ENPE was first adopted in 2019 (2019-2024) by the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) to define energy poverty and vulnerable consumers, establish measurable indicators, and set reduction targets of up to 50% by 2025. 

The ENPE 2025–2030 is conceived as a comprehensive instrument to reduce energy vulnerability and ensure equitable access to energy under conditions of affordability, safety, and sustainability, with a focus on prioritizing and addressing those pillars identified as critical.

Within this framework, the strategy is structured around three fundamental strategic objectives:

• Objective 1. Develop adequate knowledge to enable Public Administrations and stakeholders, within their respective areas of competence, to effectively characterize and address energy poverty.
• Objective 2. Ensure the effective protection of consumers in situations of energy vulnerability.
• Objective 3. Promote the implementation of structural measures aimed at reducing energy poverty.

This proposal emerges from an extensive participatory process involving social organizations, the academic community, and the business sector, which included workshops with different groups including vulnerable households. The ambition for this new period, 2026 to 2030, is to shift from short-term support measures to structural actions that provide lasting assistance to vulnerable consumers.

The public consultation will remain open until 10 October 2025, and then it will be revised before the final document is presented. 
 

Access here the draft version of the national Energy Poverty Strategy.