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2025-10-22 Living in Housing Cooperatives with an Energy Focus: A Resident’s Perspective in Czechia and Poland.

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Wojciech Bełch

The report provides an overview of the housing stock and residents’ opinions on energy issues in Polish and Czech housing cooperatives and homeowners’ associations. The findings are based on a survey conducted among residents of these types of housing organizations in both countries. The report ...

2025-10-20 Understanding energy poverty at the local level and the role of multi-apartment buildings

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This report lays the conceptual foundation for addressing energy poverty in Europe, with particular attention to the challenges posed by private multi-apartment buildings (MABs). It reviews EU, national, and local policy frameworks, and highlights barriers such as poor building performance, fragmented ownership and decision-making, financing ...

2025-07-28 Between efficiency and democracy: Explaining support and resistance towards energy transition and prosumer solutions in Polish and Czech housing cooperatives

authors:

Krzysztof Niedziałkowski

The paper examines attitudes and perceptions of collective energy investments in multi-family buildings, applying an institutional framework and based on 60 interviews with key policy stakeholders and housing cooperative representatives in Poland and the Czechia. Housing cooperatives are well-positioned to implement renewable energy technologies as ...

2025-07-07 Analysis of indicators and datasets for energy poverty assessment: The case of private multi-family buildings

authors:

Pedro Palma

others

This report aims to provide valuable insights for the municipalities of Piraeus (Greece), Rumia (Poland), and Torres Vedras (Portugal) to address energy poverty in private multi-apartment buildings within their territories, within the context of the LOCATEE project. It reviews 68 energy poverty assessment approaches published ...

2025-06-06 Social Climate Fund. How to protect householdsfrom rising energy prices?

authors:

Joanna Mazurkiewicz

Jakub Sokołowski

policy paper

The new carbon tax (ETS2) will increase the cost of heating with coal and gas starting in 2027. Rising energy prices raise concerns about a growing risk of energy poverty. The Social Climate Fund is intended to protect vulnerable households from excessive price increases. It ...

2025-03-31 Peer effects and inequalities in technology uptake. Evidence from a large-scale subsidy programme

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The success of energy transition in addressing climate change depends on several factors, including the affordability of new technologies and the influence of peers within communities. However, concerns about affordability raise questions about how economic inequalities shape peer effects and whether they create barriers to ...

2024-12-17 Energy commons during crisis: Understanding housing cooperative strategies through dramaturgical sociology

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The importance of energy as a common good becomes especially pronounced during crises. This paper reconstructs the response of housing cooperatives – a specific type of energy community – to the energy crisis. To this end, we apply eighteen impression management strategies inspired by Erving ...

2024-07-31 Facilitating data-driven retrofits to alleviate energy poverty in Warsaw

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The study includes a procedure and recommendations for collecting data on energy poverty at the building level, available in national and local government registers. The adopted analytical process allowed for developing various energy renovation scenarios for municipal buildings in Warsaw, considering a balance between social, ...

2024-03-11 How to use social support networks to tackle energy poverty?

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Some households in an energy poverty crisis cannot rely on support from other people. Also, the effectiveness of programs combating energy poverty is limited due to difficulties in reaching households in crisis. Without institutional, material, and emotional support, people experiencing energy poverty cannot improve their ...

2023-10-02 Housing cooperatives facing the energy transition. Insights from Poland and Czechia

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This study constitutes preliminary analytical material concerning the adaptative capacity of housing cooperatives to accommodate energy transition in Poland and Czechia. This report comprehensively utilises administrative data from Polish and Czech national registers for the first time. These data have been employed to (1) compare ...

2023-05-24 Distributional effects of carbon pricing in Poland

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The report aims to indicate the potential effects of climate policy and point out mechanisms to reduce inequalities caused by increased energy prices. Based on the macroeconomic model and microsimulation, we present the effects of carbon pricing and its consequences for economic sectors and households ...

2023-04-27 How to Avoid Another Yellow Vests Movement? Evaluating Preferences for a Carbon Tax with a Discrete Choice Experiment.

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Climate policy can trigger tensions in divided societies with low trust. We examine public preferences for policies to achieve energy security and climate change mitigation goals in the context of the energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We conducted a discrete choice experiment ...