Estimating fuel poverty at household level: An integrated approach

Walker, Ryan; McKenzie, Paul; Liddell, Christine; Morris, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.06.004

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“…Originally focused mainly on the UK and Ireland, scholarship on domestic energy deprivation has recently expanded to the European, North American and Australian contexts to highlight, inter alia, the crucial role of low incomes, high prices and inefficient dwellings in driving the predicament (Boardman 2010, Chester and Morris 2011, Dubois 2012, Walker et al 2014. Such research has developed alongside the distinct literature aimed at investigating issues of inadequate access to "modern" fuels in developing # 2015 The Author(s).…”

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confidence: 99%

Unpacking the spaces and politics of energy poverty: path-dependencies, deprivation and fuel switching in post-communist Hungary

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This paper focuses on the embeddedness of energy poverty -understood as the inability to secure a socially and materially necessitated level of energy services in the home -in the socio-technical legacies inherited from past development trajectories, as well as broader economic and institutional landscapes. Using Hungary as an example, we explore the recent expansion of energy poverty across different demographic and income groups. While much of the mainstream literature focuses on cases where energy poverty affects distinct social groups and issues, our analyses examine the systemic implications of a form of deprivation that involves a much wider range of social and spatial strata. We develop a framework that highlights the different ways in which inadequate access to energy services has resulted in the emergence of new political reconfigurations among a variety of actors, while prompting the articulation of household strategies with far-reaching structural consequences.

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confidence: 99%

Unpacking the spaces and politics of energy poverty: path-dependencies, deprivation and fuel switching in post-communist Hungary

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“…The first part of this section investigates the validity of the proposed model in portraying Qes and how Qes differs from real consumption observations or modelled predictions (e.g., Walker et al 2014, CERTU 2011. The second part demonstrates how the output of the proposed model can be utilized to identify loco-regional differences arising from the consumption patterns investigated and how these differences can be crucial in supporting informed policy making and planning.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Energy-based needs and, consequently, energy consumption have increased substantially in recent decades, thus causing the emergence of new forms of poverty such as fuel poverty. Fuel poverty has been observed in many countries, and multiple definitions already exist (Walker R. et al 2014; Pachauri and Spreng 2011) (Pa. For example, in the United Kingdom according to the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act -a person is to be regarded as living in fuel poverty if he is a member of a household living on a lower income in a home which cannot be kept warm at reasonable cost‖. Hence, households are usually considered to be fuel poor when they would need to spend more than 10% of total revenue to maintain an adequate thermal comfort in their dwelling (Liddell et al 2012.).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As a result, scientific research has substantially privileged the practical development of applications capable of achieving these goals through technical innovations (Park et al 2009;Battisti 2009). Although this type of research is extremely useful (e.g., Walker R. et al 2014), it fails to consider important aspects of the problem beyond technical challenges, which may result in a fallacious broader framework (Wood 2007). In fact, preventively investigating whether the established goals are achievable or not, what negative impact may be produced by the blind adoption of such implementation, and whether the magnitude of the proposed intervention's expected results is sufficient to yield significant effects is as crucial (Hertwich, 2005;Greening 2000) as increasing technical efficiency per se.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Tale of Sustainability and Equity: Defining a Safe Operating Space for Households’ Energy Vulnerability

Martellozzo¹

2017

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The demand for natural resources to sustain human activities has dramatically increased in recent decades; as a consequence, we have potentially reached peak oil, poisoned much of the remaining natural ecosystem, and irreversibly compromised the atmosphere. The consequences of the increased anthropogenic pressure on the natural environment have forced us to confront the paradoxical coexistence of two factors required to sustain the development of a growing population: the need to access a larger natural resource base and the need to increase resilience by alleviating human pressure on the natural environment. Thus, limiting energy consumption, or increasing consumption efficiency, is a matter of urgent concern in decelerating the anthropogenic depauperation of the natural environment. Policy making has often interpreted this problem within a technical-reductionist framework. This mainstream perspective has led to neglect issues pertaining resilience and justice thus creating a fertile ground for the appearance of new forms of poverty, which affect not solely developing countries but also the western world. This study focuses in particular on fuel poverty, and its aims are threefold: revitalize the critics to the implicit unsustainable and inequitable principles conveyed through the technical-reductionist approach; elaborate an alternative methodological framework based on equitable and sustainable paradigms; discuss how this can support policy makers in identifying relevant areas for public intervention.

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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].…”

Section: Objective Measures Of Fuel Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%