Assessing Resilience to Energy Poverty in Europe through a Multi-Criteria Analysis Framework

Arsenopoulos, Apostolos; Marinakis, Vangelis; Koasidis, Konstantinos; Stavrakaki, Andriana

doi:10.3390/su12124899

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“…Given the need for the sustainable management of natural resources, on the one hand, and the growing energy demand, on the other, it is vital for the future of rural areas to enhance the resilience of the energy system [28]. This needs to be carried out in combination with the actions taken in a climate-resilient housing sector, which is now one of the essential prerequisites for a just energy transition aimed at reducing energy exclusion or poverty [29,30]. Rural power-system resilience is formed by three interdependent and interacting components, which are: economic, technical, and social resilience.…”

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Local Communities’ Energy Literacy as a Way to Rural Resilience—An Insight from Inner Peripheries

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Energy transition is surely not only about the technological change, but it also has to necessarily reflect socio-cultural and environmental transformations on the local level. Hence, local communities’ energy literacy belongs to the crucial elements in designing successful energy transition and strengthening rural resilience. Energy literacy is a concept widely related to the multifaceted phenomenon of energy consumption, both in its individual and collective dimensions. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to analyse the level of energy literacy in rural conditions, considering its three key dimensions (awareness, attitude, and behaviour). Our reflective considerations about energy literacy build on the current knowledge that stress its importance for the reinforcement of rural resilience. The case study, Zławieś Wielka, in the north-central Poland, was selected where a social survey (N = 300) on the relation between energy literacy and rural resilience was conducted. By means of employing the cross-tabulations method for data analyses, our results signal that certain indications of the ecological awareness among the rural residents are being formed. Our findings clearly suggest that, on the one hand, the needs for more environmentally reasonable management with energy, including electricity and heat, come to the fore. On the other hand, various types of investments in improving the energy efficiency of residential buildings and utilising energy generation from renewable energy sources are observed. It seems that the surveyed community has a clear potential to become the vector for sustainable and just energy transition of the countryside. The essential conditions that urgently need to be implemented to ensure the viability of rural energy transition are the educational reinforcement within the community and more generous long-term institutional support from the central government, targeted on endogenous development and enhancing the local social capital.

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Section: Rural Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Local Communities’ Energy Literacy as a Way to Rural Resilience—An Insight from Inner Peripheries

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“…and Yoon [19], but many variations of the method have been developed over the years [20][21], with the most indicative one being found in the development of Fuzzy TOPSIS [22,23,24]. TOPSIS, in its various forms, has been widely used for energy efficiency related problems [25][26], as well as to support decision-making in other sectors, such as utilisation of energy sources [27], electricity generation [28][29], environmental assessment [30], energy poverty [ 31 ] and transport [32].…”

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A data-driven multicriteria decision making tool for assessing investments in energy efficiency

Sarmas¹,

Marinakis²,

Doukas³

2022

Oper Res Int J

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Mainstreaming energy efficiency financing has been considered a key priority during the last decade among several stakeholders. The capability offered by Multicriteria Decision Analysis to integrate cross-domain financial and energy consumption data, combined with statistical analysis techniques and data abundance, contributes to building the necessary market confidence in energy efficiency projects and make them an attractive investment asset class. In this context, the aim of this paper is to propose a solid methodological framework in order to support the financing procedure of energy efficiency investments, and to identify improved grant financing plans, considering a series of factors which are of vital importance for the sustainability of such actions and the limitation of investment risk. A decision support tool, developed in Python, is presented which implements the suggested methodology, improving the decision making for the investor in terms of the percentage of grant financing per project. The developed methodology has been applied on a reliable dataset of energy efficiency projects from several cities in Latvia, where the actual performance of the investments is exploited. The application of the methodology has resulted in a financing plan which achieves about the same energy savings, while bringing 15% reduction of the energy efficiency investments’ cost.

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“…Зарубежные исследователи часто пишут работы на тему корреляции проблемы бедности и энергетики, в которой связывают бедность и потребление энергии, что интересно для нас с точки зрения энергозатратности ИКТ [Arsenopoulos et al, 2020;Antepara et al, 2020;Duran and Condorí, 2021;Wichelns, 2017].…”

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Modern information technologies as a tool for reducing working population poverty

Каримов

Fatkullina

2022

Digital Sociology

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Rapid development and implementation of modern information and communication technologies has led to a new phase of economic, scientiﬁc and technological progress. However, there is no mechanism to ensure social systems effective management based on the information technologies use due to socio-economic inequality among the population of the Russian Federation, preventing all segments of the population from beneﬁting scientiﬁc and technological progress results, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the study is to identify the modern information technologies role in improving the living standard and the population life quality, in particular, in overcoming the working population poverty. The article analyses foreign and domestic research on this issue over the past ﬁve years. The pandemic impact on social structures, in particular the labour market and employment, has been considered. The growing importance and social networks role in public life and their use serious potential to solve the problems under study have been noted. The authors carried out a sociological survey in the Republic of Bashkortostan, on the basis of which made conclusions: modern society is characterised by the information inequality problem, which is closely linked to the economic inequality problem, which will be exacerbated by the modern information and communication technologies development; the computer illiteracy problem and the close relationship between income level and knowledge, skills in information and communication technologies, English language skills were identiﬁed among residents. The research results highlight the need to implement modern information technologies skills into poverty alleviation programmes.

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Assessing Resilience to Energy Poverty in Europe through a Multi-Criteria Analysis Framework

Cited by 17 publications

References 66 publications

Local Communities’ Energy Literacy as a Way to Rural Resilience—An Insight from Inner Peripheries

Local Communities’ Energy Literacy as a Way to Rural Resilience—An Insight from Inner Peripheries

A data-driven multicriteria decision making tool for assessing investments in energy efficiency

Modern information technologies as a tool for reducing working population poverty

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