A cure-all for energy poverty? Thinking critically about energy advice
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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.
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.
Is there energy poverty in my municipality? Where is it concentrated and how severe is it? Who are those most affected? What are the most significant determining factors?
This scientific paper provides an ex-post cross-country assessment of 19 case studies of energy interventions that have striven to engage hard-to-reach energy users.
Energy Poverty and Just Transformation in Greece
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.
Italy fully shares the Community’s approach of strengthening the commitment to decarbonise
Europe’s energy and economic systems, and of making Europe the first regional area to have a social,
economic and productive dimension with no net emissions.
In the Italian case, many of the interventions, which employed substantial public resources, have
ensured a limitation of prices even downstream of their formation, through bonuses, which have
selectively protected increasingly large groups of customers in economic difficulty.
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.
Krizia Berti, David Bienvenido-Huertas, Alessandra Bellicoso, Carlos Rubio-Bellido
David Bienvenido-Huertas, Daniel Sánchez-García, David Marín-García, Carlos Rubio-Bellido
Energy poverty alleviation actions by community energy initiatives across Europe, best practices and challenges, and relevant energy poverty alleviation actions for energy communities.
David Bienvenido-Huertas, Daniel Sánchez-García, David Marín-García, Carlos Rubio-Bellido
The Energy Poverty Advisory Hub (EPAH) launches its series of practical guidebooks, aiming to give local governments and practitioners concrete procedures and a clear path on how to address energy poverty, with the first volume dedicated to energy poverty diagnosis.
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.