Publications

One aspect of energy poverty that remains largely unexplored in Europe is rural energy poverty, receiving limited attention despite being more prevalent than in urban contexts. Additionally, in the pursuit of a clean and just transition, rural areas in Europe are often left behind.

This report analyses the financial and commercial business cases of the four pilot areas involved in POWER UP. Their pioneering work may be useful to other local authorities wanting to launch renewable energy services for vulnerable people. Being able to accurately model and forecast how energy activities will impact costs, benefits and risks for anyone involved is an important skill. Four different pilot projects from Italy, Spain, Belgium and Czech Republic show different approaches to integrate renewable energy solutions while addressing energy poverty.

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.

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

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.

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.

Although most students did not identify themselves as living in EP, several populations experienced discomfort, where comfort levels seemed to vary according to location, type of students and season.

This study offers an assessment based on official data, highlighting how energy poverty in post-communist countries like Georgia differs significantly from that in Western Europe.

There is no silver bullet for mitigating energy poverty in multifamily buildings: historical trajectories, operating financing schemes and political contexts require a carefully designed individual approach, tailored to the local conditions.

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. 

A cure-all for energy poverty? Thinking critically about energy advice

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.

Authors: David Bienvenido-Huertas, Daniel Sánchez-García, Carlos Rubio-Bellido, David Marín-García

Any local authority wanting to install solar energy on their own assets or wind turbines on municipal ground, needs to go through a series of (sometimes lenghthy) steps. In order to facilitate the process and learn from other, we share experiences from the five POWER UP pilots. Thanks to very practical insights this report can guide local administration employees, may they be technical, administrative or elected people.

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.