Publications

The EPAH Leaflet summarises the main mission and vision, audiences and work areas of initiative from 2024 to 2028.

How did municipalities and social justice advocates in 6 countries create a blueprint for energy services that benefit the most vulnerable? What were their replication strategies and activities to make sure others would be able to use the learnings without having to reinvent the wheel?

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access - A unique perspective on electricity capitalism with a focus on the global South - Includes a diversity of case studies spanning four continents - Discusses the importance of electricity capitalism to the global South ene

This guidebook provides local governments with methodological support for the development of sustainable energy and climate action plans and focuses on the energy poverty assessment

Discover how pilot schemes have been implemented by four municipalities to provide access to vulnerable households with renewables. It covers four main aspects for each pilot: the technical, legal, and governance aspects of the project, as well as the key challenges encountered during implementation. The diverse approaches and the lessons learned may be inspiring for other initiatives on renewable energy services for vulnerable people.

Review of 68 energy poverty assessment approaches published in recent scientific literature and selected grey literature from EU projects and initiatives to identify the datasets, indicators, and practices that can be leveraged to build a comprehensive and robust energy poverty assessment

A new report from the HouseInc project examines how smart meter data can improve the measurement and identification of energy poverty, offering an alternative to traditional survey-based methods.

This new publication by the ComActivate project offers an in-depth analysis of EU and national policies addressing energy poverty and building renovation.

Disadvantaged communities in both the EU and the US are disproportionately affected by energy poverty, pollution, and poor housing conditions. New York State’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) stands out with its legal requirement that at least 35%—and a goal of 40%—of climate investments benefit disadvantaged communities. The New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act: Lessons for Shaping an Inclusive Energy Transition in the EU explores how this investment mandate has shaped policies in building renovation, clean heating and cooling, community energy, and workforce development—and what Europe can learn to ensure its green transition leaves no one behind.

The roadmaps offer adaptable frameworks for rural municipalities to address building renovation, energy poverty, and carbon footprint reduction in ways that are both practical and community-focused.

The aim of the POWER UP national guides is to support interested stakeholders (such as cities, municipalities, citizens and citizen energy communities, and municipal companies) to develop a social energy model by following the activities developed as part of the POWER UP project. 

Drawing upon the experiences of six municipalities involved in the POWER UP project, this report produced by University of Manchester presents policy recommendations framed at both, the local and national level. The policy recommendations were co-developed with the project partners, pilots, and researchers from the University of Manchester, UK, involved in POWER UP. The policy recommendations cover a range of topics – including definitions of energy communities, technical regulations, funding mechanisms, and planning procedures. The recommendations also address a number of stakeholders, including municipality departments, community organisations, and regulatory actors.

This policy brief corresponds to the third section, Capacity Building. This section provides concrete tools and methodologies designed to increase the capacity level of key stakeholders in addressing energy poverty.

This policy brief corresponds to the fifth section, Funding. It provides recommendations and insights into funding schemes to address energy poverty with a focus on health, drawing primarily from the financial models examined within WELLBASED.

This policy brief corresponds to the fourth section, Monitoring and Evaluation. It provides policy recommendations for monitoring energy poverty and health metrics, along with assessing the impact of integrated policies and interventions.

This policy brief corresponds to the WELLBASED second action field, Effective Governance to implement urban programs against energy poverty through health lenses, using a Health in All Policies approach

This policy brief corresponds to the first section, local action. It provides recommendations and insights into local action to address energy poverty from the WELLBASED project.

This report describes the efforts undertaken in the four pilot sites to organise these energy poverty mitigation measures.

Housing and energy poverty are deeply inter-connected. Rising housing costs and inefficient buildings intensify the financial burden and limit access to essential energy services for vulnerable households.The policy brief is issued by the Joint Research Centre.

Displaced students experience greater thermal discomfort than local students, likely due to precarious housing in the private rental sector, with the underlying causes of discomfort differing significantly across regions.

The objective of this Notebook is to address energy poverty in the Global North and the Global South, its conceptualization, measurement and main measures and/or policies to address it. It also presents how all this fits into the framework of global warming and energy transition; in order to reflect on the subject and determine policy implications, as well as possible commonalities between some measures and others and to understand to what extent it is the same problem despite the variety of ways to conceptualize, measure and treat it.

The report provides a complete overview of the characteristics of the participants in the WELLBASED evaluation study and the impact of the WELLBASED Urban Program on a broad range of health, well-being and energy indicators. The overarching objective of WELLBASED running between 2021 and 2025 was to propose the design, implementation, and evaluation of a novel, comprehensive urban programme, based on the social ecological model, to significantly reduce energy poverty and its effects on the citizen’s health and well-being.

In this report the WELLBASED team is introducing 7 financial instruments which aim to alleviate energy poverty and its negative effects. The report also dedicates a large part to the Urban Financial Metabolism (UFM) methodology and to Social Impact Bond (SIB) which is a novel tool to finance innovative social projects.

Through this support scheme, about 300 municipalites received support from 2022 to 2024 from all different EU countries. We have selected six cities to present the inspiring results of this collaboration.

This learning guide helps you move beyond diagnosis and planning to implement energy poverty mitigation measures that are ready to be put into practice. Now is the moment to turn your goals into concrete results.