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2025-12-04 Varieties of domestic energy deprivation in private multi-apartment buildings. Insights from Poland, Portugal and Greece.

authors:

Peggy Kaloumenou

This report presents a framework for measuring local exposure to energy poverty in municipalities and tests it using administrative data from different national contexts. The framework helps municipalities identify which buildings or small areas face the greatest risk of energy deprivation, addressing a common lack ...

2025-12-04 Stakeholders Engagement Strategies for Pilots

authors:

Peggy Kaloumenou

Pedro Palma

Magdalena Wojtuch-Krasuska

Document sets out the strategic and operational framework for engaging key actors involved in addressing energy poverty in three pilot municipalities: Piraeus (Greece), Rumia (Poland), and Torres Vedras (Portugal). It outlines the importance, objectives, and expected outcomes of stakeholder engagement and explains how these activities ...

2025-10-28 Relief or Retrofit? Designing ETS-2 Revenue Recycling to Reduce Energy Poverty in Poland

authors:

Marek Antosiewicz

Jakub Sokołowski

working paper

We examine how to design and sequence policy instruments to safeguard vulnerable households under rising carbon prices. We focus on the European Union’s new Emissions Trading System for buildings and transport (ETS-2) and the accompanying Social Climate Fund (SCF), which aim to reconcile climate ambition ...

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 ...

2025-07-07 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 ...

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 ...

2023-03-27 Energy poverty among women in Poland

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Women who independently manage households constitute a social group particularly vulnerable to energy poverty. This vulnerability stems from several factors, including low-income levels associated with gender pay and pension gaps. Additionally, the increased risk of energy poverty is shaped by specific energy needs and traditional ...

2021-01-12 How to improve the quality of life of the energy poor?

authors:

Jan Frankowski

Jakub Sokołowski

policy paper

In Poland, about 10% (1.3 million) of the population are energy-poor households that cannot heat and light their dwellings properly or use electrical appliances. The most common causes of energy poverty are low energy efficiency of the building and heat source, high energy costs and ...

2020-12-10 Energy poverty, housing conditions, and self-assessed health: evidence from Poland

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Inefficient heating and insufficient access to energy services can turn a shelter into a health hazard. We study how energy poverty associated with having substandard housing and ineffective heating is related to the risk of developing poor health in an urban context. We conducted a ...

2019-07-18 Measuring energy poverty in Poland with the Multidimensional Energy Poverty Index

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Energy poverty is a complex problem that is generally caused by having a low income, having high energy costs, and/or living in a home with low energy efficiency. Various indicators capture these factors, but there is no consensus among researchers on which is the best ...

2019-01-22 Defining and measuring energy poverty in Poland

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The EU Member States are obliged to assess the scale of energy poverty in their respective national contexts. We propose a new definition of energy poverty in Poland, with different levels of specificity corresponding to the needs of different levels of administration. We also propose ...