Energy Poverty

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Energy Poverty and Protection of Vulnerable Consumers. Overview of the EU Funding Programs FP7 and H2020 and Future Trends in Horizon Europe

“…According to a widely accepted but general description [5,7], energy poverty is a condition when "individuals or households are not able to adequately heat, cool, or provide other required Summertime energy poverty and space cooling difficulties are relatively under-explored: a holistic approach is thus needed. More specifically, it is necessary to combine the assessment of energy poverty considering the whole year and by including all energy services in the home [11].…”

A Review: The Energy Poverty Issue in the European Union and Latvia

“…Over the recent years, studies [16], [17] have been focusing on developing and implementing a globally applicable definition of energy poverty as "the inability to attain a socially and materially necessitated level of domestic energy services" (the meaning of "socially necessitated" is usually understood as such a standard of energy services that enables a person to fully participate in society whereas the material aspect has to do with effects on health, mental health and well-being). In parallel, the authors of [18] have initiated a detailed discussion regarding the need to consider and evaluate a wider range of [energy] services, looking at how and for what reasons vulnerable households may suffer from energy poverty, using energy for other purposes than heating, how household electronic appliances (for meeting primary needs) influence energy consumption, how that influences the quality of life in various dimensions, as well as revisiting the grouping of protected customers, for example, adding the groups of students or young adults.…”

“…It has to be pointed out that in devel-oped countries, energy poverty usually has to do with a lack of energy affordability; it is constituted by a number of issues that preclude consumers from achieving the level of energy services or the level of thermal comfort needed to ensure a normal way of life, which is often regarded as the basic necessary level [7], [9], [22], [23]. On the other hand, in developing countries, energy poverty is usually related to the unavailability of energy and lack of access; the phenomenon has been subjected to a more multi-disciplinary approach, concentrating on the issues of energy availability or unavailability, equitability and investments into sociotechnical systems [17], [22]- [25].…”

Recognition of and response to energy poverty in the United States

“…In this Review, we suggest that the absence of formal energy poverty recognition at the federal level limits a more comprehensive understanding of and effective response to energy poverty as a distinct problem, and not simply a manifestation of more general problems of poverty. To this end, we describe energy poverty as the distinct notion of household energy deprivation that limits social and material necessities for participation in society 9 . We first review federal responses to energy poverty in the US as pseudo recognition.…”