Mitigating energy poverty: Potential contributions of combining PV and building thermal mass storage in low-income households

Energy Poverty and Low Carbon Just Energy Transition: Comparative Study in Lithuania and Greece

“…Increase in the dwelling size of low income groups also increases their energy poverty Policies to improve access, availability and affordability of electricity and increased awareness on energy conservation are necessary Lakatos & Arsenopoulos ( 2019 ) Assessment of energy efficiency instruments on energy poverty The SWOT analysis for EU financial instruments to tackle energy poverty The limitations should be addressed, in order to better target the roots of the problem The strengths of the financial instruments, and future challenges are addressed Yadav et al ( 2019 ) Energy transformations in remote areas and poverty in India A multi-level perspective taken by interviews with regime and niche level actors Barriers of decentralised solar PV include a disconnect between policy makers and implementers, poor coordination within and between actors, and limited institutional focus and competence For transition to off-grid solar systems in remote communities, the strong political determination, and implementation of a collaboration with businesses, system suppliers, financial intermediaries, companies, end users Charlier Kahouli ( 2019 ) The determinants of energy poverty in terms of changes in energy prices in France A panel threshold regression model applied to assess the sensitivity of households to energy price fluctuations to analyze the overlap between their poverty profiles Income poverty does not necessarily mean energy poverty. The non-linear effect of income on the fluctuations in energy prices was defined Focus on income heterogeneity by considering different groups of households separately when defining energy efficiency measures Romero Rodríguez et al ( 2018 ) Energy poverty implications due to the economic crisis in Spain Evaluation of the benefits from exploiting rooftop PV potential to cover part of the electricity consumption of a district (reducing the energy bills), and use the surplus electricity to supply power for the heat pumps in the district Among the most affected are low income groups living in inefficient buildings experiencing low comfort in summer and winter PV modules can reduce the thermal comfort differences among the dwellings and provide energy poverty reduction Longe & Ouahada ( 2018 ) Criteria for measuring household energy poverty An autonomous income-based energy scheduling technique energy expenditure affordability algorithm (EEAA) to assess household energy expenditu...…”

“…However, it is also literature-proven that win–win policies in terms of social, health and environmental objectives may be achieved in the short-term, improving the public policies related to environmental sustainability, GHG mitigation, access to clean energy (De Martino Jannuzzi, 2010 ; Drosos et al, 2020 ; Huang et al, 2020 ; Serrano-Medrano et al, 2018 ; Zamparas, Kyriakopoulos, et al, 2019 ). It has been also literature argued that additional policies to improve access, availability and affordability of electricity and increased awareness on energy conservation are necessary in developing nations to ensure reduction in energy poverty and greenhouse gas(GHG) emission (Yadav et al, 2019 ; Boemi et al, 2020 ; Sharma et al, 2019 ; Charlier & Kahouli, 2019 ; Romero Rodríguez et al, 2018 ). Most of those studies analysing energy poverty issues and interaction of these with climate change mitigation policies, they stressed importance of behavioral changes, education, awareness rising and training to achieve success in both policy fields (Awaworyi Churchill & Smyth, 2020 ; Gouveia et al, 2018 ; Huang et al, 2020 ; Middlemiss & Gillard, 2015 ; Nathan & Hari, 2020 ; Scarpellini et al, 2015 ; Sharma et al, 2019 ).…”

Solar photovoltaic interventions have reduced rural poverty in China

“…Several studies on the intersection of PV deployment and poverty alleviation have focused on the role of PV in providing rural electricity access in locations that do not have access to electric grids or in a few developed countries [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] . Moreover, Mandelli et al 20 , Chaurey and Kandpal 21 , Rodríguez et al 22 , and Rosas-Flores et al 23 provide reviews of the deployment of PV for rural electrification.…”

A Technical Review of Modeling Techniques for Urban Solar Mobility: Solar to Buildings, Vehicles, and Storage (S2BVS)

“…Specifically, the energy derived from the solar thermal collectors is assumed to cover the energy demand (hot water and space heating) of the buildings, while different configurations of thermal energy storage (long and short term) are included to overcome a period during which there is not enough solar thermal energy available. Rodríguez et al, explored the potential of alleviating the energy poverty for a low-income housing district in Spain, by using a PV-heat pump-thermal mass storage system [74]. The surplus PV power is used to power the heat pumps, which provides heating/cooling to all dwellings, increasing the occupants' thermal comfort.…”