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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

Municipality of Vlora (Albania) – In Albania, many households have seen their incomes decrease due to covid-19. Milieukontakt and its partners are working with households to empower and help them tackle energy poverty, and cope with their electricity bills while their incomes have decreased. Entela,… Read More »Entela’s testimonial, energy auditor volunteer, who empower households and individuals facing energy poverty (Albania)

Article suggested by our partner ESF (Enginyeria Sense Fronteres / Barcelona) Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) – A recent agreement with authorities obliges multinational company Endesa to write off more than 28 million euros of debt in Catalonia. This represents 73% of the households debt accumulated since 2015.… Read More »Agreement with Endesa will free more than 35,000 vulnerable families from their debts on electricity bills (Catalonia)

As part of the efforts to raise awareness about the gender dimensions of energy poverty in Europe, EmpowerMed was featured in the ‘Making decarbonisations fair’ conference last March 1st, 2021. Project partners Katharina Habersbrunner (Women Engage for a Common Future, WECF) and Sergio Tirado Herrero… Read More »EmpowerMed project presented in the ‘Making decarbonisations fair’ conference

Together with 9 other organisations and initiatives, on 16 February 2021, EmpowerMed partner Focus sent a call to the Government of the Republic of Slovenia to stop the increase in energy poverty due to the Covid-19 epidemic. In Slovenia, the Covid-19 epidemic has increased energy… Read More »Slovenian government urged to tackle energy poverty in COVID-19 epidemic

Milieukontakt with the support of young volunteers’ group, within the EmpowerMed project has started the process of energy audit of the target group in the Municipality of Vlora. The first visits were made to families lead by female households, supported with economic assistance, elderly and… Read More »The EmpowerMed project team has undertaken the energy audit process for women in energy poverty in the Municipality of Vlora

EmpowerMed project is happy to share this opinion piece published in FORESIGHT Climate & Energy by EmpowerMed partner Sergio Tirado Herrero, PhD, of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technologies (ICTA) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). The opinion piece reflects upon this critical review of EU-funded projects from… Read More »EmpowerMed’s new opinion piece by Sergio Tirado Herrero

IREC and UAB, two of our EmpowerMed partners will participate to the Annual IEEE Canada Power and Energy Conference which be held November 9-10, 2020, and will be moving to a virtual delivery. The article entitled : “Smart Meters Tackling Energy Poverty Mitigation: Uses, Risks… Read More »SAVE THE DATE : “smart meters tackling energy poverty mitigation”