Publications | Energy Poverty Advisory Hub

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
3 June 2020

This Member State Report of the EU Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV) provides an overview of the energy poverty situation in Italy at a glance. With key indicators, policies, and publications, it offers an understanding of the key aspects of energy poverty in Italy.

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
3 June 2020

EPOV Member State Report - Latvia

This Member State Report of the EU Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV) provides an overview of the energy poverty situation in Latvia at a glance. With key indicators, policies, and publications, it offers an understanding of the key aspects of energy poverty in Latvia

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
3 June 2020

EPOV Member State Report - Malta

This Member State Report of the EU Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV) provides an overview of the energy poverty situation in Malta at a glance. With key indicators, policies, and publications, it offers an understanding of the key aspects of energy poverty in Malta

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
3 June 2020

EPOV Member State Report - Netherlands

This Member State Report of the EU Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV) provides an overview of the energy poverty situation in the Netherlands at a glance. With key indicators, policies, and publications, it offers an understanding of the key aspects of energy poverty in the Netherlands.

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
3 June 2020

EPOV Member State Report - Poland

This Member State Report of the EU Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV) provides an overview of the energy poverty situation in Poland at a glance. With key indicators, policies, and publications, it offers an understanding of the key aspects of energy poverty in Poland

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
3 June 2020

EPOV Member State Report - Portugal

This Member State Report of the EU Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV) provides an overview of the energy poverty situation in Portugal at a glance. With key indicators, policies, and publications, it offers an understanding of the key aspects of energy poverty in Portugal.

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
3 June 2020

EPOV Member State Report - Slovakia

This Member State Report of the EU Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV) provides an overview of the energy poverty situation in Slovakia at a glance. With key indicators, policies, and publications, it offers an understanding of the key aspects of energy poverty in Slovakia

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
3 June 2020

EPOV Member State Report - Romania

This Member State Report of the EU Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV) provides an overview of the energy poverty situation in Romania at a glance. With key indicators, policies, and publications, it offers an understanding of the key aspects of energy poverty in Romania.

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
3 June 2020

EPOV Member State Report - Spain

This Member State Report of the EU Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV) provides an overview of the energy poverty situation in the Spain at a glance. With key indicators, policies, and publications, it offers an understanding of the key aspects of energy poverty in the Spain

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
1 June 2020

Emergency measures to protect energy consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Global review and critical analysis

The paper reviews and classifies the energy poverty policies implemented across the five continents, identifying potential inefficiencies, but also best practices.

Scientific paper
28 May 2020

Feasibility study of a centralised electrically driven air source heat pump water heater to face energy poverty in block dwellings in Madrid

This paper assesses the performance of a centralised heat pump to meet the space heating demand of block dwellings in Madrid.

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
14 May 2020

EPOV Indicator Dashbord Methodology Guidebook

This publication was produced by the Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV).

Scientific paper
11 April 2020

Energy poverty: European analysis of national, regional and urban experiences. The case of the Iberian Peninsula

This paper describes a compilation of studies aimed at identifying areas at risk of energy poverty in the Iberian Peninsula. Examples of indicators developed in Portugal at the national and regional scale are compared with indicators developed in Spain at the urban and building scale.

Scientific paper
11 April 2020

Energy poverty: European analysis of national, regional and urban experiences. The case of the Iberian Peninsula

This paper describes a compilation of studies aimed at identifying areas at risk of energy poverty in the Iberian Peninsula.

Scientific paper
24 January 2020

European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits

Converges scholarship on metrics and measurement with energy poverty research. Frames energy poverty metrology as socially shaped measurement of complex phenomenon. Proposes an analytical framework with five dimensions of energy poverty metrology. Illustrates framework using multi-scalar cases from

Scientific paper
24 January 2020

European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits

Through a conceptual and analytical discussion, the paper sets out the theoretical problematic of the act of measurement and relate this to the general issue of measuring energy poverty.

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
4 December 2019

Finland’s Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan

Finland's Integrated Energy and Climate Plan contains Finland's national targets and the related policy measures to achieve the EU's 2030 energy and climate targets.

Scientific paper
1 December 2019

People’s decisions matter: understanding and addressing energy poverty with behavioral economics

This study taps into findings from behavioral sciences regarding the role that scarcity conditions have on decision-making.

Scientific paper
1 December 2019

People’s decisions matter: understanding and addressing Energy Poverty with Behavioral Economics

nsufficient access to affordable, safe and reliable energy services deprives individuals of the essential means to live a good, satisfactory and just life. This problem is becoming more and more urgent in urban areas, in particular in low-income neighborhoods.

Scientific paper
21 November 2019

Integrating climate and social housing policy to alleviate energy poverty: an analysis of targets and instruments in Austria

Housing conditions are addressed by climate policy in retrofitting buildings and by social policy in providing affordable and adequate housing.This paper illustrates intersections between both policy spheres in Austria and argues that disjunct policies undermine efforts at alleviating energy povert

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
20 November 2019

Connecting obligated parties to adopt innovative schemes towards energy poverty allevation

The purpose of this report is to establish the essential background setting in which the SocialWatt activities will be carried out.

Scientific paper
20 November 2019

Sustainable Development and Energy Poverty: Challenges for the Governing Institutions

The article presents the scope of energy poverty in Bulgaria, the underlying factors, the consequences, and the trends of development in the last three years until 2016.

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
20 November 2019

Connecting Obligated Parties to Adopt Innovative Schemes Towards Energy Poverty Allevation - Report

The purpose of this report is to establish the essential background setting in which the SocialWatt activities will be carried out. It therefore contains a discussion of definitions and indicators currently available to measure energy poverty at European and Member State level.

Scientific paper
15 November 2019

Energy poverty in Portugal: Combining vulnerability mapping with household interviews

Energy poverty is analyzed in a country highly vulnerable to cold and heat at home. Methods include energy poverty vulnerability index and interviews with households. Mapping shows extent and variability of energy poverty throughout Portugal.

Report (policy paper, recommendation)
11 November 2019

EPOV Annual Report: Transforming Energy Poverty Policies in the European Union

We outline measures to tackle energy poverty, both in terms of the new EU legislative requirements mandated by the Clean Energy for all Europeans Package, and national policy approaches towards energy poverty and vulnerable consumers