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Target group: Experts (energy, social, health)


Energy poverty in Europe & Germany: diagnosis about policies & legislative frameworks, advocacy about gender & inclusion

Published on: February 15, 2022

An estimated 50 million households in Europe do not have adequate access to essential energy services and goods. With steadily rising energy costs and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many more vulnerable people already at risk may slip under the line of energy poverty, soon. This report sheds light on the issue of energy poverty in… Read More »Energy poverty in Europe & Germany: diagnosis about policies & legislative frameworks, advocacy about gender & inclusion

Set of data collection tools and manuals in different formats

Published on: July 14, 2021

Having settled the framework for data acquisition in the EmpowerMed project, which is absolutely necessary to evaluate the good advancement and achievements of the project, this deliverable presents the master documents that will be used in each different activity of the project. These documents go from manual uses of specific devices to on-line questionnaires including… Read More »Set of data collection tools and manuals in different formats

Smart meters tackling energy poverty mitigation: uses, risks and approaches – Academic paper (En)

Published on: May 20, 2021

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 also help to fight energy poverty issues. Nonetheless, when tackling… Read More »Smart meters tackling energy poverty mitigation: uses, risks and approaches – Academic paper (En)

Municipality of Vlora (Albania)

Published on: November 12, 2020

  1- LOCAL PILOT SITE ASSESSMENT The Municipality of Vlora consists of 5 administrative units (Vlora, Orikum, Qendër, Novoselë and Shushicë) with a total population of 202,000 inhabitants including Greek, Roma and Egyptian minorities. Local data indicate that only 64% of the households of the area pay their energy bills regularly and that the average… Read More »Municipality of Vlora (Albania)

Primorska region (Slovenia)

Published on: November 12, 2020

1- LOCAL PILOT SITE ASSESSMENT The Primorska region comprises 4 municipalities that line up the Mediterranean coast of Slovenia (Koper, Izola, Ankaran and Piran) with a total population of 88,000 inhabitants. Despite being one of the most economically dynamic regions of Slovenia, many people depend on precarious, poorly paid jobs (e.g., harbours and tourism industry… Read More »Primorska region (Slovenia)

Padova (Italy)

Published on: November 12, 2020

1- LOCAL PILOT SITE ASSESSMENT Padova is a city in the North-East of Italy (Veneto Region) with a population of 210,000 inhabitants. The city has an increasing number of single-person elderly households and single-parent families, of which many are headed by women. The assessment of local energy poverty conditions found the following typologies of vulnerable… Read More »Padova (Italy)

Marseille (France)

Published on: November 12, 2020

1- LOCAL PILOT SITE ASSESSMENT Marseille is located in Provence- Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Bouches du Rhône within the Aix Marseille Provence Metropolitan area which counts 1,9 million inhabitants. On the territory, more than 70,000 households are vulnerables to energy poverty. Part of the existing housing stock is in a state of disrepair, often housing the poorest… Read More »Marseille (France)

Barcelona Metropolitan Area (Catalonia, Spain)

Published on: November 12, 2020

1- LOCAL PILOT SITE ASSESSMENT The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) is a dense, unequal urban region with 36 municipalities (including the city of Barcelona) and over 3.2 million inhabitants. In 2016 over 100,000 people living in the AMB reported energy and water poverty conditions with around 10% of the City of Barcelona’s population unable… Read More »Barcelona Metropolitan Area (Catalonia, Spain)

Appropriate financial and repayment solutions (En)

Published on: September 9, 2020

This training material presents some financial tools that allow households to implement some renewable energy (RES) or energy efficiency (EE) solutions, in the specific to invest their own money, to have access to a kind of facilitated credit line or to enter in a customer group with a bigger purchasing power.