The cold days of January 2022 in Albania took the life of a 67 year old woman in Fieri City. She was in difficult economic conditions, a degraded house and with no possibilities to even heat the room, due to power cut by the utility… Read More »Energy poverty kills on the european continent : a look at the situation in Albania
EmpowerMed partners organise a webinar on Thursday 17 February at 14:00 CET for local actors on how to work with communities affected by energy poverty, especially women, for deploying simple photovoltaic (PV) concepts to tackle problems with access to energy. The content will mix information,… Read More »Webinar: Photovoltaic solutions to tackle energy poverty in the Mediterranean with a gender perspective
This 10 November 2021 is the first day against Energy Poverty in France with a collective dynamics of all the involved organisations. EmpowerMed is on board for this day: Launch of the health workshops cycle organised by Geres and WECF France => see the video… Read More »FIRST FRENCH DAY AGAINST ENERGY POVERTY
We interviewed Mὸnica Guiteras Blaya especially for you, see here the strong vision of this woman who strives every day to empower people affected by energy poverty Mὸnica, if you had to sum up your vision of the fight against energy poverty in one sentence,… Read More »Monica is a finalist of the Woman Energy Award – EUSEW – WHY ?
EmpowerMed team is proud to announce that our colleague, Mὸnica Guiteras Blaya from Enginyeria Sense Fronteres, ESF (Engineers without borders Catalonia), is one of three finalists shortlisted for the EU Sustainable Energy Awards 2021 in the Woman in Energy category! The award recognises outstanding activities… Read More »Vote for Monica Guiteras Blaya for the sustainable Energy Awards 2021 – Woman in Energy
DG Ener and EmpowerMed project are happy to invite you to the EUSEW2021 policy session Gender justice in the energy poverty challenge in Europe! The session will take place online on 27 October 2021 from 16.00 – 17.30 CET. Women in all their diversity are… Read More »Gender justice in the energy poverty challenge in Europe ! 27 October 2021
After a year and a half of COVID-19 pandemia, EmpowerMed project partners gathered for their second project meeting, which was organised in a hybrid manner. One part met in Vlora, Albania, while the other were attending remotely. Partners discussed the progress of the project, and… Read More »Second meeting for EmpowerMed partners: an inspiring and motivating gathering
The present work aims to describe and analyze the results of the interventions carried out in the Barcelona pilot site of the EmpowerMed project. The overall objective of EmpowerMed is to tackle energy poverty and to help improve the health of people in coastal areas… Read More »Tackling Energy Poverty through Collective Advisory Assemblies and Electricity and Comfort Monitoring Campaigns
Women and women-led households are disproportionately affected by energy poverty – a condition that worsens gender inequality, exacerbated by age, class and ethnic background among other factors. It is crucial to take a closer look at the relationship between energy poverty and gender. EmpowerMed’s just… Read More »Finally online our first EmpowerMed paper on an intersectional perspective of energy poverty
Big data analysis is becoming an increasing field of interest for research to analyse, identify and predict final user’s behaviour. For this reason, in the energy sector, smart metering is generally used to find new business opportunities and, theoretically, it is said that it could… Read More »Smart meters tackling energy poverty mitigation: uses, risks and approaches