Energy Poverty: Measurement and Mitigation
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 4793
Special Issue Editor
Interests: energy and resilience; energy poverty; food energy and water systems; supply chains; sensors and IoT; data analytics (AI/ML); discrete and stochastic optimization; resilience; climate change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy poverty refers to the condition where a household either spends a significant portion of their income on energy, forcing them to forego other essential goods like food and clothing or going without energy altogether forcing them out of the modern economy and potentially exposing them to dangerous scenarios. However, there are many conflating factors that can make quantifying, let alone addressing, energy poverty difficult. Nonetheless, researchers and practitioners across a variety of disciplines have made significant progress in measuring energy poverty and developing solutions for energy poverty alleviation, and this Special Issue seeks to highlight that work.
This Special Issue will be composed of a selection of papers addressing a wide range of approaches and tools to mitigate energy poverty while also considering sustainability. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of energy poverty, authors from different disciplines are encouraged to submit papers. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Energy burden and other energy poverty metrics;
- The role of renewable energy in mitigating energy poverty;
- Energy efficiency mitigation;
- Building retrofit and renovation;
- Assessment of indoor thermal comfort and energy use in vulnerable households;
- Health effects of energy poverty;
- Methodologies and metrics for energy poverty characterization and monitoring;
- Climate change vulnerability (summer and winter problems);
- Sustainable energy access;
- Energy justice;
- Energy governance;
- Energy use and social practices.
Guest Editor
Dr. Erick C. Jones Jr.
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Keywords
- energy poverty
- energy burden
- energy use
- renewable energy
- lived experience
- energy access
- climate vulnerability
- weatherization.
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