Publications

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.

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.

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.

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.

Examining different elements of the Fit for 55 package and other relevant energy legislation, the document offers recommendations for their implementation and transposition into national laws from the perspective of alleviating energy poverty on the local level.

The aim of the national roadmaps is to build on current project activities and to enable the application of the POWERPOOR approach to promote integrated energy poverty mitigation policies across all regions and cities within the pilot countries.

This manuscript presents the policy implications stemming from the implementation of the POWEPROOR approach in alleviating energy poverty in eight European countries, as co-created with relevant stakeholders in each country.

Using a mixed methods approach, our network has conducted research to advance knowledge and interpretations
of energy poverty and boost scientific outputs’ capacity to shape knowledge- based policies.