
Publications (274)


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.

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.

n the sphere of Fire Safety, there is an opinion that the people living in energy poverty face a greater
fire risk and so are exposed to a double penalty.The data regarding the link between fire safety and energy poverty is in development.

Buildings are responsible for more than 30% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions from energy. To increase energy and resource efficiency, the EU Renovation Wave sets the target of doubling renovation rates in the next ten years.

David Bienvenido-Huertas, Ana Sanz Fernández, Carmen Sánchez-Guevara Sánchez, Carlos Rubio-Bellido

This paper evaluates whether, how, and why policy documents in six diverse European countries (Spain, France, Portugal, the UK, North Macedonia, and Slovenia) link energy poverty to other related policy areas.

This paper provides a review of the digital one-stop shop concept for building renovation while providing a step-by-step approach for their implementation based on a Portuguese case-study.


The aim is to develop and test a model for the provision of integrated residential renovation services on the territory of Sofia in Bulgaria.


These guidelines provide an overview for signatories of the energy poverty pillar in the CoM Europe framework and the support options that are available to them.

This paper analyses the regional impact of replacing space heating and cooling equipment on energy poverty levels in the population using the Energy Poverty Vulnerability Index.

The results showed that exponential smoothing and state-space methods allowed to obtain satisfactory results with regard to percentage error.

While wind power is one of the fastest growing, most mature and cost-competitive renewable energy (RE) technologies, its deployment faces significant challenges due to low acceptance amongst societal actors

SCORE has developed and promoted the application of Consumer Stock Ownership Plans (CSOPs) for renewable energy projects and applied the model in several REC pilot projects.

This Energy Poverty Advisory Hub report conducts a thorough scientific literature review of studies that delve into energy poverty assessment and the identification and targeting of the energy-poor population at subnational spatial scales.

The briefing lays out why energy poverty cannot be solved by ‘letting the market play its game’.