Measuring fuel poverty in France: Which households are the most fuel vulnerable?

Legendre, Bérangère; Ricci, Olivia

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2015.01.022

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“…Conceptualizing processes of targeting, identification of households and implementation as three interdependent steps has highlighted the complex errors of inclusion and exclusion implicated in the design of France's rapidly developing fuel poverty policy (Dubois, 2012). The increasing amount of public attention and state funding attracted by the energy poverty predicament in this country has been accompanied by the expansion of scientific research devoted to the issue, especially in terms of the relationship between vulnerability patterns and support policies (Bafoil, Fodor, & le Roux, 2014;Bartl, 2010;Legendre & Ricci, 2015;Ortar, 2016). Several recent contributions indicate that energy poverty is even present in countries like Germany, where rates of social inequality and inefficient housing are at record low levels (Becker, Kouschil, & Naumann, 2014;Billen, 2008;Großmann, Schaffrin, & Smigiel, 2016;Kopatz, 2009;März, 2017;Tews, 2014).…”

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Energy Poverty

Bouzarovski

2018

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Energy Poverty

Bouzarovski

2018

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“…I subsequently provide a fieldbased exploration of fuel poverty via the lens of energy precarity, by using vignettes from a survey and interviews The term "energy precarity" has been used in its French translation ("pr ecarit e energ etique") to define and target vulnerable households in France. According to French legislation, a household suffers from "pr ecarit e energ etique" if it encounters difficulties in obtaining the energy required to meet its basic energy needs due to insufficient financial resources or housing conditions (Legendre & Ricci, 2015). Despite its inclusivity, this definition has not been developed with reference to wider conceptual understandings of precarity, and has also been criticised for its vagueness (Dubois & Meier, 2016).…”

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Encountering energy precarity: Geographies of fuel poverty among young adults in the UK

Petrova

2017

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This paper develops the notion of “energy precarity” in order to uncover the governance practices and material conditions that drive and reproduce the inability of households to secure socially‐ and materially‐necessitated levels of energy services in the home. The overarching aim is to foreground a geographical approach towards the study of domestic energy deprivation, by emphasizing the complex socio‐spatial and material embeddedness of fuel poverty. The paper operationalizes these ideas via a field‐based study of a group that has received limited attention in research and policy on fuel poverty: young adults living in privately rented accommodation. In evoking the experiences of such individuals, I employ energy precarity as a means of unpacking the spaces where energy deprivation is produced, experienced and contested. Among other findings, I highlight that people's fluid lifestyles and specific end‐use energy demand patterns mean that energy deprivation metaphorically and physically overflows the limits of home, creating multiple performativities of precarity that have received very little attention to date.

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“…Therefore, the households forced to reduce drastically their energy consumption because they cannot afford the associated costs are probably not recorded as fuel poor when implementing this approach [27,10,14,43]. T o overcome this problem, the calculation framework is modified by requiring "satisfactory" heating.…”

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“…Boardman's choice of 10% threshold was justified as twice the median of households' expenditure for energy services according to the 1988 Family Expenditure Survey for UK's households [29]. Since then, the threshold of 10% has been used widely as a general criterion for calculating the number of fuel poor households in a region or country (see for example [42,45,36,27].…”

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