Abstract: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 in… Show more
“…The results support this affirmation and could be considered to contribute to mitigate the mismatch between the definition of fuel poverty and eligibility for assistance that frequently arises and increases the total costs of tackling the problem of fuel poverty (Boardman, 2010). Thomson et al (2017b) stress the need to improve the quality of existing data on fuel poverty to monitor this issue. They advocate the creation of a dedicated household survey on fuel poverty that could improve our knowledge about energy expenditure and its seasonal and annual variations, and a deeper understanding of the related problems (e.g., through changing the responses from binary to a Likert-type scale in the existing surveys).…”
Policies towards fuel poverty often use relative or absolute measures. The effectiveness of the official indicators in identifying fuel poor households and assessing its impact on health is an emerging social policy issue. In this paper we analyse objective and perceived fuel poverty as determinants of selfassessed health in Spain. In 2014, 5.1 million of her population could not afford to heat their homes to an adequate temperature. We propose a latent class ordered probit model to analyse the influence of fuel poverty on self-reported health in a sample of 25,000 individuals in 11,000 households for the 2011-2014 period. This original approach allows us to include a 'subjective' measure of fuel poverty in the class membership probabilities and purge the influence of the 'objective' measure of fuel poverty on self-assessed health. The results show that poor housing conditions, fuel poverty, and material deprivation have a negative impact on health. Also, individuals who rate themselves as fuel poor tend to report poorer health status. The effect of objective fuel poverty on health is stronger when unobserved heterogeneity of individuals is controlled for. Since objective measures alone may not fully capture the adverse effect of fuel poverty on health, we advocate the use of approaches that allow a combination of objective and subjective measures and its application by policy-makers. Moreover, it is important that policies to tackle fuel poverty take into account the different energy vectors and the prospects of a future smart and integrated energy system.
Abstract.Policies towards fuel poverty often use relative or absolute measures. The effectiveness of the official indicators in identifying fuel poor households and assessing its impact on health is an emerging social policy issue. In this paper we analyse objective and perceived fuel poverty as determinants of self-assessed health in Spain. In 2014, 5.1 million of her population could not afford to heat their homes to an adequate temperature. We propose a latent class ordered probit model to analyse the influence of fuel poverty on self-reported health in a sample of 25,000 individuals in 11,000 households for the 2011-2014 period. This original approach allows us to include a 'subjective' measure of fuel poverty in the class membership probabilities and purge the influence of the 'objective' measure of fuel poverty on self-assessed health. The results show that poor housing conditions, fuel poverty, and material deprivation have a negative impact on health. Also, individuals who rate themselves as fuel poor tend to report poorer health status. The effect of objective fuel poverty on health is stronger when unobserved heterogeneity of individuals is controlled for. Since objective measures alone may not fully capture the adverse effect of fuel poverty on health, we advocate the use of approaches that allow a combination of objective and subjective measures and its application by policymakers. Moreover, it is important that policies to tackle fuel poverty take...
“…The results support this affirmation and could be considered to contribute to mitigate the mismatch between the definition of fuel poverty and eligibility for assistance that frequently arises and increases the total costs of tackling the problem of fuel poverty (Boardman, 2010). Thomson et al (2017b) stress the need to improve the quality of existing data on fuel poverty to monitor this issue. They advocate the creation of a dedicated household survey on fuel poverty that could improve our knowledge about energy expenditure and its seasonal and annual variations, and a deeper understanding of the related problems (e.g., through changing the responses from binary to a Likert-type scale in the existing surveys).…”
Policies towards fuel poverty often use relative or absolute measures. The effectiveness of the official indicators in identifying fuel poor households and assessing its impact on health is an emerging social policy issue. In this paper we analyse objective and perceived fuel poverty as determinants of selfassessed health in Spain. In 2014, 5.1 million of her population could not afford to heat their homes to an adequate temperature. We propose a latent class ordered probit model to analyse the influence of fuel poverty on self-reported health in a sample of 25,000 individuals in 11,000 households for the 2011-2014 period. This original approach allows us to include a 'subjective' measure of fuel poverty in the class membership probabilities and purge the influence of the 'objective' measure of fuel poverty on self-assessed health. The results show that poor housing conditions, fuel poverty, and material deprivation have a negative impact on health. Also, individuals who rate themselves as fuel poor tend to report poorer health status. The effect of objective fuel poverty on health is stronger when unobserved heterogeneity of individuals is controlled for. Since objective measures alone may not fully capture the adverse effect of fuel poverty on health, we advocate the use of approaches that allow a combination of objective and subjective measures and its application by policy-makers. Moreover, it is important that policies to tackle fuel poverty take into account the different energy vectors and the prospects of a future smart and integrated energy system.
Abstract.Policies towards fuel poverty often use relative or absolute measures. The effectiveness of the official indicators in identifying fuel poor households and assessing its impact on health is an emerging social policy issue. In this paper we analyse objective and perceived fuel poverty as determinants of self-assessed health in Spain. In 2014, 5.1 million of her population could not afford to heat their homes to an adequate temperature. We propose a latent class ordered probit model to analyse the influence of fuel poverty on self-reported health in a sample of 25,000 individuals in 11,000 households for the 2011-2014 period. This original approach allows us to include a 'subjective' measure of fuel poverty in the class membership probabilities and purge the influence of the 'objective' measure of fuel poverty on self-assessed health. The results show that poor housing conditions, fuel poverty, and material deprivation have a negative impact on health. Also, individuals who rate themselves as fuel poor tend to report poorer health status. The effect of objective fuel poverty on health is stronger when unobserved heterogeneity of individuals is controlled for. Since objective measures alone may not fully capture the adverse effect of fuel poverty on health, we advocate the use of approaches that allow a combination of objective and subjective measures and its application by policymakers. Moreover, it is important that policies to tackle fuel poverty take...
“…The diary entries became the basis for a follow‐up conversation. Although aware of the limitations of energy diaries – in terms of the ambient temperature that underpins the capability to write, the time‐burden (Thomson et al., ), the omissions and entries that reflect the diarist's knowledge of the research aims (Meth, ) – the diary became an important source of embodied and emotional self‐reflection that facilitated access to how everyday energy‐related practices made participants feel. For example, Ryan wrote:Since given this chore of summing up my day to day movements I realise that all I am doing to quote my cousin is ‘taking up space.’ My family have no further use for me and I have become a burden on society to the point where I rely on public housing for a place to live.…”
This paper contributes to geographical perspectives on energy justice by arguing for the concept of "spaces of energy well-being." We build on the concepts of capabilities, home, and emotional embodiment to offer an understanding of the spatiality of well-being. The paper draws on empirical material from a study conducted with social housing tenants in Port Kembla, Australia, following recent energy price increases. Interviews illustrate that social housing tenants engaged in reducing domestic energy consumption occupy a paradoxical space of well-being.We argue that energy bills are lived and felt daily through bodies as anxiety, given that participants experience social housing as a therapeutic and safe place that allows possibilities to refashion the self. We better understand the dynamics of pride and shame from limiting energy use. Our analysis suggests that essential to understanding the ways social housing tenants relate to uneven access to fuel is as an emotionally embodied home making and unmaking practice. K E Y W O R D S Australia, capabilities, emotions, energy justice, fuel poverty, sensory ethnography ---
“…This paper discusses the issue of clean energy development based on these five attributes. Provided that there are some differences between fuel poverty and energy poverty, as explained by [13], some measurements of fuel poverty could be referred, such as affordability [20,21].…”
Section: Conceptual Framework For Regional Clean Energy Development Amentioning
Abstract:Renewable energy can help to tackle energy poverty issues of the availability of modern energy services and the sustainability of energy supply. Based on the concept of the Energy Development Index, published by International Energy Agency, this paper builds the clean energy development index and applies the Grey incidence decision method to analyze regional energy poverty issues in China. A model using panel data investigates the influencing factors that are governing energy poverty alleviation and the relationship between energy poverty and social development. The improved index system not only considers the access to modern energy services, but also addresses the cleanliness of energy supply and the transition to clean energy consumption for cooking. The results indicate that due to insufficient clean energy development, China's Northeast and West regions have experienced increasing energy poverty problems, while energy poverty in the Southwest region has improved considerably because of its renewable energy development. Urbanization, affordability, and renewable energy development can increase access to modern energy services, contributing to energy poverty alleviation. However, the role of rural household consumption levels in energy poverty alleviation should be considered in rural energy policy.
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