Publications

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. 

This handbook aims to provide practical advice based on collective peer experience and help
municipalities face the challenges of the phase of action implementation.

Are you ready to tackle energy poverty in your community? This short guide provides a clear, step-by-step guide for municipalities to identify the most feasible and impactful actions to prioritise at the local level.

This scientific article explores the potential roles that local organisations can play in delivering energy support to energy-poor households and maps their needs for effective collaboration.

The new report by the RENOVERTY project indicates the rigorous need for policy transformations and improvements to address energy efficiency and energy poverty issues in rural areas. 

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)

Go through RENOVERTY’s first policy brief to learn about the audit results as well as direct recommendations on what can European governmental bodies do to mitigate energy poverty in rural areas

This impact report presents the key findings and insights from the Transition Point mobile one-stop shop pilot project which was deployed in Portugal as a way to support energy-poor households.

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

This scientific paper provides a review on hard-to-reach households, including vulnerable groups and an indicator set to gauge these audiences in the European Union and all 27 Member States.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

The results indicate that between 4.2 and 14 % of students live in permanent discomfort (i.e., uncomfortable both at school and home).

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 scientific paper explores the concept of renewable energy communities through a case-study in Portugal, estimating energy generation through solar panels and local consumption.

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