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[Policy Brief] The role of the Energy Efficiency Directive article 7 in alleviating energy poverty
H2020 projects SocialWatt and ENSMOV join forces, making use of both projects’ learnings to deliver policy recommendations to improve the consideration of energy poverty through Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED). Article 7 of the EED specifically requires European member states to consider the need to alleviate energy poverty in their design of […]
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Investigating how to tackle energy poverty in the EU private rented sector
Around 50 million households in the European Union are estimated to be living in energy poverty – or energy vulnerability, unable to afford the energy needed to adequately heat or cool their homes. This is caused by a combination of factors including high energy costs, low household incomes and energy inefficient buildings, and can have […]
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Brief of actions and schemes to consider to tackle energy poverty
A total of 42 schemes were identified and analysed by the H2020-funded project SocialWatt’s team, based on a number of criteria set. Some of the conclusions include that: the income is frequently used as a proxy to energy poverty, almost all schemes provide information and advice to households, most are funded by a single entity […]
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Dynamic visualisation of energy poverty data via Socialwatt H2020 project
See SocialWatt #H2020EE dynamic visualisation of data from 2006 to 2018 for 15 EU countries : – arrears on utility bills, and – inability to keep home adequately warm https://socialwatt.eu/en/statistics-on-energy-poverty
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[VIDEO] Hellenic Parliament TV- Discussion on energy poverty, in Greek
H2020-funded project SocialWatt was presented around disccusions on the energy poverty condition in Greece on the 15th of February 2020. 5 experts participated in a TV show presented by the Hellenic Parliament TV and discussed the current situation in Greece and other European countries. Over 50 million Europeans are facing the energy poverty and are […]
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[Report] Status quo of energy poverty and its mitigation in the EU: report and interactive map
H2020 SocialWatt aims to enable obligated parties under Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive across Europe to develop, adopt, test and spread innovative schemes to alleviate energy poverty. Appropriate tools developed within the project will help utilities and energy suppliers effectively identify energy poor households, as well as develop and monitor schemes that focus […]
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