Impact of COVID-19 on the Level of Energy Poverty in Poland

Nagaj, Rafał; Korpysa, Jarosław

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“…Consistently, several European countries have adopted binding measures prohibiting suppliers disconnecting customers in default. However, all these measures appear insufficient to limit the pandemic's effects on EP resulting from a deterioration in the living conditions of segments of the population ( Pye and Dobbins, 2015 ; Nagaj and Korpysa, 2020 ). Conversely, the expected growth in energy-poor households actually limits the effectiveness of the policies promoted by the European Commission to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals.…”

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Forecasting the COVID-19 effects on energy poverty across EU member states

2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic is manifesting its devastating effects in multiple directions, even indirectly affecting the health of citizens, for instance, by increasing the level of energy poverty (EP). As part of the studies that are trying to frame the consequences of the pandemic, this paper aims to identify the effects on EP in the coming years in a bid to identify the countries of the European Union most affected and the time span necessary to return to a path to reduce EP. For this purpose, an analysis based on the supervised learning algorithms of dynamic factor models is carried out. The outcomes of this investigation show that the negative effects of the pandemic on the level of EP will be reabsorbed very slowly, not before 2025, and in any case with substantial differences between countries, further widening the gap between countries with low levels of EP and those with greater EP levels.

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“…India, China, and other developing countries have gradually begun to include energy poverty in their policy agendas, but have achieved only limited effects of policy works [18,19]. Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures taken by almost all countries and declining income of residents further exacerbated the already severe situation of energy poverty [20,21]. Currently, the grim reality of energy poverty requires a more in-depth research of its causes, consequences, and solutions.…”

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Mapping the Worldwide Trends on Energy Poverty Research: A Bibliometric Analysis (1999–2019)

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Energy poverty is one of the main challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Research on energy poverty is becoming a common focus of scholars in many areas. Bibliometrics can help researchers dig deep into the information of specific research fields from a quantitative perspective. In this study, we collected 1018 research papers in the field of energy poverty published in the period 1999–2019 from the Web of Science databases and conducted a bibliometric analysis on them. Cleaning and screening of sample papers, matrix construction, and visualization were performed using Bibliometrix, VOSviewer, and HistCite, summarizing the internal and external characteristics of the papers. With regard to external characteristics, a total of 982 research institutions in 80 regions conducted research in this field. There is extensive cooperation between the countries, and the UK, the USA, Australia, and Italy play the most active role in the cooperation network. With regard to internal characteristics, we found the two most representative citation paths: one path starts from the concerns of energy-poor groups and stops at an ethical discussion on energy poverty; the second path is based on the existing technological path, continuously developing coping policies, evaluation methods, and a conceptual framework for dealing with energy poverty. Furthermore, through coupling analysis, we discovered four focuses of energy poverty research: improvement of definition, improvement of evaluation methods, effects of coping policy, and energy justice. Through a comprehensive analysis of existing papers, this paper reveals some limitations of previous studies and recommends some promising directions for future research on energy poverty.

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“…Nagaj and Korpysa [ 170 ] studied the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level of energy poverty in Poland, reporting a negative impact on the increase in prices and expenditure on energy carriers, with the most affected being the poorest households. These results may probably have an extrapolation to other European and non-European countries.…”

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Anaerobic Digestion for Producing Renewable Energy—The Evolution of This Technology in a New Uncertain Scenario

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Anaerobic digestion is a well-known technology with wide application in the treatment of high-strength organic wastes. The economic feasibility of this type of installation is usually attained thanks to the availability of fiscal incentives. In this review, an analysis of the different factors associated with this biological treatment and a description of alternatives available in literature for increasing performance of the process were provided. The possible integration of this process into a biorefinery as a way for producing energy and chemical products from the conversion of wastes and biomass also analyzed. The future outlook of anaerobic digestion will be closely linked to circular economy principles. Therefore, this technology should be properly integrated into any production system where energy can be recovered from organics. Digestion can play a major role in any transformation process where by-products need further stabilization or it can be the central core of any waste treatment process, modifying the current scheme by a concatenation of several activities with the aim of increasing the efficiency of the conversion. Thus, current plants dedicated to the treatment of wastewaters, animal manures, or food wastes can become specialized centers for producing bio-energy and green chemicals. However, high installation costs, feedstock dispersion and market distortions were recognized as the main parameters negatively affecting these alternatives.

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Impact of COVID-19 on the Level of Energy Poverty in Poland

Cited by 48 publications

References 39 publications

Forecasting the COVID-19 effects on energy poverty across EU member states

Forecasting the COVID-19 effects on energy poverty across EU member states

Mapping the Worldwide Trends on Energy Poverty Research: A Bibliometric Analysis (1999–2019)

Anaerobic Digestion for Producing Renewable Energy—The Evolution of This Technology in a New Uncertain Scenario

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