Publications

This guide helps policymakers with strategic outdoor interventions to tackle summer energy poverty, using insights from three years of project data and citizen input for more resilient neighbourhoods.

This guide presents strategies, tools, and methods for adapting to extreme heat, addressing summer energy poverty, and lowering health risks, based on the project's hands-on experiences. (Report nº6)

This document delves into measuring impacts on summer energy poverty, using improved indicators beyond energy savings to tackle heat-related challenges more accurately.

Achieving a citizen-centred and inclusive energy transition requires harnessing affordable and clean energy solutions while facilitating the active participation of consumers in line with the aims of the European Green Deal.

This policy brief highlights the role of national governments in fostering the development of energy communities in their territories and fulfilling their potential for social cohesion.

This article examines the multidimensional problem of energy poverty, focusing on its connections to climate change and its manifestation at rural and urban scales across selected European countries and Israel.

Fuelwood has been overlooked by European energy transition policies, despite its importance as a domestic energy source for many European households. We study fuelwood use for coping with energy poverty based on the lived experience of energy-vulnerable households in five diverse European countries.

This policy brief targets national policymakers with policy measures and best practices they could implement to advance energy citizenship in their country

Building on three years of research, this policy brief presents the scope and diversity of citizen engagement in the energy transition, identifies barriers and opportunities, and proposes targeted recommendations for supporting effective energy citizenship in the European Union.

The policy brief focuses on collective forms of action in energy citizenship.

This policy brief concentrates on business and social innovation models (BSIMs) as instrumental tools to promote the development of energy citizenship across different scales. 

The “Energy Poverty Advisory Hub (EPAH) Handbooks: A Guide to Understanding and Addressing Energy Poverty” are a series of practical guidebooks for local governments and practitioners which ensure that the social dimensions of energy transition are addressed efficiently.

This publication presents and discusses data on household energy consumption and energy poverty in Poland for the year 2018.

This study aims to identify and understand the structural roots of energy poverty, to highlight the gender axis of energy poverty and the lack of gender-disaggregated data at EU and Member State level. 

EPAH presents a new report focusing on the latest updates and enhancements to our energy poverty national indicators and dashboard in 2023.

This first Policy Brief tackles summer energy poverty with unique insights on building conditions, cooling systems, and climate change. It offers crucial policy guidelines for managing extreme heat.

Dramatic increases in global energy prices in 2022 have sharpened focus on the suffering experienced by people living in energy poverty – a situation where they are unable to afford the energy required to meet their basic needs. In many countries, providing energy advice to householders is part of a

This JRC report examines the potential of energy communities to alleviate energy poverty, which affects an estimated 50 million households in the EU. 

A flexible and systemic framework for policy mix analysis is proposed considering five steps: definition of objectives, instrument selection, single instrument analysis, instruments interaction analysis, and evaluation.

Using a concurrent triangulation design, this dissertation investigates energy poverty in Austria, with a focus on social housing in Vienna. A novel indicator of hidden energy poverty is proposed using latent class analysis on survey data.

The Sun4All Capacity and Training Package helps cities and other stakeholders to understand and address energy poverty more efficiently, ensuring fair energy transition across Europe.

Recent energy price spikes have led to increased energy poverty among low-income households living in inefficient homes. Accurate statistics on energy poverty help inform resource allocation and better target relief schemes and retrofit funds.

In the winter of 2022-23, the WELLBASED surveyed 356 households across 5 nations, about their
experience of energy poverty and their health status. 

This brief is structured according to three sections: accuracy and quality improvement in summer energy poverty measurement; impact on wellbeing conditions and urban scale; health impact. Each section is, in turn, composed of a diagnostic subsection followed by its respective recommendation.