Recognition of and Response to Energy Poverty: Measurement, Policies and Measures
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2024 | Viewed by 3636
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental economics; energy economics; mineral economics; financial and cost‒benefit analysis; environmental management; sustainable development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy poverty has emerged in recent years as one of the biggest social problems worldwide. Bouzarovski and Petrova (2015) define energy poverty as “the inability to attain a socially and materially necessitated level of energy services”.
For the poorest segment of the population in low- and middle-income developing countries, it mainly concerns the lack of connection to electricity and the use of solid fuels and biomass for cooking. For developed countries, and parts of the population in developing countries, it is mainly related to unaffordable prices of fuel and energy services, which, in combination with poor housing, result in inadequate indoor conditions, such as low temperature and excess humidity in winter and high temperature in summer, poor indoor air quality, etc. In any case, living in energy poverty is associated with significant adverse consequences that range from social exclusion and disruption of social cohesion to degradation of the quality of life and severe impacts on public health.
The objective of this Special Issue is to systematically investigate energy poverty as a multidimensional social problem. Specifically, the papers that will be included aim to (i) present new and existing methodologies for measuring energy poverty and the vulnerability of households as well as identifying energy poor households, (ii) quantify, in physical and monetary terms, the various impacts of energy poverty, including the impact on public health, and (iii) highlight good practices aiming at addressing the problem and propose policies and measures for tackling energy poverty at local scale.
Prof. Dr. Dimitris Damigos
Dr. Sebastian Mirasgedis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy poverty
- energy access
- energy policies
- energy poverty indicators
- housing comfort
- housing efficiency
Planned Papers
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Title: Shared PV self-consumption solutions for addressing energy poverty at municipal level
Authors: Mr. Amir Jabbari Torkamani; Dr. Helena Martín; Dr. Jordi de la Hoz
Affiliation: Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
Abstract: This contribution analyzes the use of shared PV self-consumption solutions for addressing the energy poverty issue at municipal level. A real case study illustrates the benefits and also the constraints of that approach, considering the involved social and techno-economic aspects of these solutions.