economist
PhD student at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw. He has been working in the energy sector for the past eight years. In the Institute for Structural Research he is mainly responsible for research on energy poverty. He is a Management Committee member of COST Action “European Energy Poverty: Agenda Co-Creation and Knowledge Innovation”.
After hours, fan of Italian football team Fiorentina and crossfit athlete in open category.
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environmental economics, behavioral and experimental economics, decentralized and prosumer energy, energy poverty
Jakub Sokołowski took part in the Conference organized by the Association of Municipalities Polish Network "Energie Cités" (May 19-20, 2022).
Jakub Sokołowski and Jan Frankowski participated in a final meeting of COST ENGAGER Network Conference "Engaging with energy poverty in times of crisis" (11-13.04.2022).
'Guidelines for the Upper Silesian Territorial Just Transition Plan' is the newest research report prepared for WWF by IBS experts.
The purpose of the research was to estimate the scale and describe the characteristics of energy poverty in łódzkie voivodeship, along with recommendations for institutions implementing public policy addressed to the energy-poor households.
The co-authors of a chapter that focuses on Poland are Jakub Sokołowski and Piotr Lewandowski.
In many developed countries, housing affordability has become a focal point of discussions about housing policy as rental costs/house prices have increased relative to household incomes and the affordability situation and housing conditions have deteriorated.
This project aims to assess the people’s preferences regarding the acceptance and redistribution of environmental fees in Poland.
The project studies the effects of the increasing carbon costs in the EU on the economically vulnerable groups of final energy consumers. It focuses on four East-European EU member states (Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Romania) – with higher-than-EU-average levels of fossil fuels dependence in their economic systems, and higher-than-EU-average energy poverty levels.
The aim of the project is to estimate and map the workforce employed in the Polish coal mines as well as the workforce employed by their subcontractors, indirectly affected by the coal transition in three regions: Silesia, Greater Poland, and Lower Silesia.
