Energy affordability and the benefits system in Italy

Miniaci, Raffaele; Scarpa, Carlo; Valbonesi, Paola

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2014.09.008

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“…Energy poverty knowledge in the rest of Europe is less developed, even if a wider range of approaches has been used. Single country studies have been conducted in, inter alia, Ireland, 27 France, 28 , 29 Greece, 30 , 31 Germany, 32 Hungary, 33 Austria, 7 Spain, 34 Italy, 35 and Denmark. 36 There is also an established body of comparative research, focusing on the EU specifically, 19 , 20 , 37 – 41 and on Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.…”

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Rethinking the measurement of energy poverty in Europe: A critical analysis of indicators and data

Thomson

Bouzarovski

Snell

2017

Indoor and Built Environment

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Energy poverty – which has also been recognised via terms such as ‘fuel poverty’ and ‘energy vulnerability’ – occurs when a household experiences inadequate levels of energy services in the home. Measuring energy poverty is challenging, as it is a culturally sensitive and private condition, which is temporally and spatially dynamic. This is compounded by the limited availability of appropriate data and indicators, and lack of consensus on how energy poverty should be conceptualised and measured. Statistical indicators of energy poverty are an important and necessary part of the research and policy landscape. They carry great political weight, and are often used to guide the targeting of energy poverty measures – due to their perceived objectivity – with important consequences for both the indoor and built environment of housing. Focussing on the European Union specifically, this paper critically assesses the available statistical options for monitoring energy poverty, whilst also presenting options for improving existing data. This is examined through the lens of vulnerability thinking, by considering the ways in which policies and institutions, the built fabric and everyday practices shape energy use, alongside the manner in which energy poor households experience and address the issue on a day-to-day basis.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking the measurement of energy poverty in Europe: A critical analysis of indicators and data

Thomson

Bouzarovski

Snell

2017

Indoor and Built Environment

360

175

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“…16 Factors outside the energy industry have also contributed to energy poverty. For instance, Miniaci et al [35] mention that, in general, energy affordability "problems are likely to have been exacerbated by the recent financial crisis" and confirm this has been the case for Italy in particular.…”

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The Price Impact of Energy Vouchers

Podesta¹,

Poudou²,

Roland³

2021

The Energy Journal

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France and South Korea have implemented voucher programs to counter energy poverty. In contrast to goods that traditional voucher programs target, the market structure that dominates energy supply is the oligopoly. In this paper, we study the price impact of vouchers in this market structure. We first state conditions on demand elasticities that make the choice of vouchers consistent with the regulator's objective of eliminating energy poverty. We then model a game between energy suppliers and the regulator, where suppliers maximize profit while the regulator ensures that no consumer spends more than a given share of income on energy. From a benchmark case without vouchers, we show that vouchers reduce the energy price under simultaneous decision making or when the regulator moves first. However, the price impact of vouchers is ambiguous if firms move first. This scenario's price is above the price of the simultaneous decision scenario's price.

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“…In some instances, their monetary value is difficult to quantify; in other cases, financial values are associated to the non-monetary impacts (i.e., social benefits) they provide. Several studies have attempted to evaluate the economic, social, and environmental benefits of building energy efficiency programs [21][22][23][24]. Evaluation studies of energy efficiency programs are starting to recognize NEBs, and include them in measuring and assessing the costeffectiveness of large-scale energy efficiency programs [25][26].…”

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Energy productivity analysis framework for buildings: a case study of GCC region

Krarti

Dubey

Howarth

2019

Energy

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A new analysis framework is developed and applied to assess the benefits of building energy efficiency policies and programs. One of the main advantages of the new energy productivity analysis is that it accounts for both economic and energy performances of energy efficiency actions using only one metric. Specifically, the approach applies the concept of energy productivity to the building sector and accounts for both value added and energy savings of energy efficiency measures. Moreover, the proposed analysis accounts for all quantifiable benefits of energy efficiency programs including economic, environmental, and social. In this paper, the general guidelines for the energy productivity analysis are first described. Then, the analysis is applied to evaluate energy efficiency renewable energy programs for both existing and new buildings in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The analysis results indicate that retrofitting the existing building stock can provide significant benefits and can improve the energy productivity of the building sector in all GCC countries and free up large energy volumes and investment potentials to the development of other economic sectors. In particular, the analysis indicates that reduction in energy consumption, peak demand, and carbon emissions due to deep retrofit programs for the existing building stock can double the energy productivity of the GCC region.

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Energy affordability and the benefits system in Italy

Cited by 52 publications

References 17 publications

Rethinking the measurement of energy poverty in Europe: A critical analysis of indicators and data

Rethinking the measurement of energy poverty in Europe: A critical analysis of indicators and data

The Price Impact of Energy Vouchers

Energy productivity analysis framework for buildings: a case study of GCC region

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