Addressing Energy Poverty and Vulnerable Consumers in the Energy Sector Across the EU

2015 ◽  
Vol 378 (4) ◽  
pp. 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Pye ◽  
Audrey Dobbins ◽  
Claire Baffert ◽  
Jurica Brajković ◽  
Paul Deane ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Sector ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Vulnerable Consumers ◽  
The Eu

scholarly journals Energy Market Reforms in the EU

2020 ◽  
pp. 160-177
Author(s):  
Martha Roggenkamp ◽  
Lea Diestelmeier
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Electricity Market ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Risk Of Falling ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Vulnerable Consumers ◽  
Market Benefits ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Do So

Energy market liberalization in Europe started in the 1990s by giving consumers a choice of supply. The EU electricity market directive of 2019 reiterates the focus on consumers. It envisages that ‘citizens take ownership of the energy transition’ and participate actively in the market. At the same time, the directive aims at protecting vulnerable consumers and at mitigating energy poverty. Yet, it provides Member States with considerable freedom in defining these concepts. The directive suggests that small customers might develop into two categories—one which actively participates in the market and reaps market benefits, and one which is unable to do so and thus will remain vulnerable and at risk of falling into energy poverty. This chapter discusses whether this potential discrepancy and lacking common EU approach towards the concept of vulnerable customers and energy poverty could result in distributive and social energy injustice among small customers in the EU.

scholarly journals Expenditure-Based Indicators of Energy Poverty—An Analysis of Income and Expenditure Elasticities

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Johannes Thema ◽  
Florin Vondung
Keyword(s):  
Energy Expenditure ◽  
Micro Data ◽  
European Union Policy ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Union Policy ◽  
Depth Sensitivity ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Poverty Indicators ◽  
Specific Country ◽  
The Eu

Energy poverty is high up on national and European Union policy agendas. A number of possible indicators to measure the issue have been identified in the literature, but comparable data with European coverage is scarce. The EU Commission thus proposes four independent indicators on the “EU Energy Poverty Observatory” based on self-reported items from the pan-European surveys on income and living conditions (SILC) and household budgets (HBS). It is of increasing public interest to analyse social impacts of energy policies, and quantify energy poverty indicators also from modelling. This paper first shortly outlines how the expenditure-based indicators using HBS micro data may be directly linked to existing macroeconomic models through their defining variables (energy expenditure and income). As endogenous modelling based on micro data is difficult, the link may be country-specific elasticities. The main contribution of the paper is a systematic in-depth sensitivity analysis of the two indicators to changes in income and energy expenditure following varying patterns in the underlying distributions of the micro data. The results may be used by future soft links to models. The results display sometimes counterintuitive effects. We find that whether these indicators increase/decrease after a change of income or energy expenditure largely depends on the specific country-wise income and energy expenditure distribution between households on a micro-level. Due to their definition, the examined indicators are especially sensitive, when income changes alter the indicator threshold values, which in these cases are the median values in underlying distributions. We discuss these findings and relate them to several indicator shortcomings and potential remedies through changes in indicator definition.

scholarly journals Tackling Complexity of the Just Transition in the EU: Evidence from Romania

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1509
Author(s):  
Roxana Voicu-Dorobanțu ◽  
Clara Volintiru ◽  
Maria-Floriana Popescu ◽  
Vlad Nerău ◽  
George Ștefan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Major Power ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Energy Mix ◽  
Carbon Neutrality ◽  
Vulnerable Consumers ◽  
The Eu

The process of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050 and cutting CO2 emissions by 2030 by 55% compared to 1990 as per the EU Green Deal is highly complex. The energy mix must be changed to ensure long-term environmental sustainability, mainly by closing down coal sites, while preserving the energy-intensive short-term economic growth, ensuring social equity, and opening opportunities for regions diminishing in population and potential. Romania is currently in the position of deciding the optimal way forward in this challenging societal shift while morphing to evidence-based policy-making and anticipatory governance, mainly in its two coal-mining regions. This article provides possible future scenarios for tackling this complex issue in Romania through a three-pronged, staggered, methodology: (1) clustering Romania with other similar countries from the point of view of the Just Transition efforts (i.e., the energy mix and the socio-economic parameters), (2) analyzing Romania’s potential evolution of the energy mix from the point of the thermal efficiency of two major power plants (CEH and CEO) and the systemic energy losses, and (3) providing insights on the socio-economic context (economic development and labor market transformations, including the component on the effects on vulnerable consumers) of the central coal regions in Romania.

scholarly journals Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 858
Author(s):  
Stefan Bouzarovski ◽  
Harriet Thomson ◽  
Marine Cornelis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Multiple Strategies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Research And Policy ◽  
The Eu

This paper scrutinizes existing policy efforts to address energy poverty at the governance scale of the European Union (EU) and its constituent Member States. Our main starting point is the recent expansion of energy poverty policies at the EU level, fuelled by the regulatory provisions of the Clean Energy for all Europeans Package, as well as the establishment of an EU Energy Poverty Observatory. Aided by a systematic and customized methodology, we survey the extensive scientific body of work that has recently been published on the topic, as well as the multiple strategies and measures to address energy poverty that have been formulated across the EU. This includes the principal mitigation approaches adopted by key European and national institutions. We develop a framework to judge the distributional and procedural justice provisions within the recently adopted National Energy and Climate Plans, as an indicator of the power, ability and resolve of relevant institutions to combat the causes and consequences of energy injustice. We also provide a research and policy agenda for future action, highlighting a series of scientific and decision-making challenges in the European and global context.

TRENDS IN THE FORMATION OF POLAND'S ENERGY POLICY IN THE FUEL AND ENERGY SECTOR OF THE EU COUNTRIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. 167-173
Author(s):  
Mihail V. Rybin ◽  
◽  
Alexander A. Stepanov ◽  
Nadezhda V. Morozova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Green Energy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Regional Programs ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Fuel And Energy Sector

The article reveals and analyzes conceptual approaches to the formation of strategic directions of energy policy of the European Union and Poland in the first decades of the XXI century. A critical assess-ment is given from the point of view of international cooperation in the field of energy between the Russian Federation, Poland and the EU as a whole and, in particular, European, national and regional programs for the transformation of the fuel and energy sector in the conditions of decarbonization and transition to green energy.

European Energy Security and Sustainability

2011 ◽  
pp. 38-67
Author(s):  
Anatoly Zhuplev ◽  
Dmitry A. Shtykhno
Keyword(s):  
Energy Security ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Technology Investment ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Energy Dependent ◽  
The Eu

Europe’s economic wellbeing and growth are highly energy dependent and heavily reliant on Russian imports of oil and gas. European energy security, its alternatives, and implications are examined in this chapter with the view of sustainability and the EU-Russian energy dialog. With an asymmetric mutual political-economic interdependency with Russia, Europe’s exposure in oil and gas calls for sustainable energy solutions. Meantime, Russia, the key energy supplier in the European region, is also a major energy consumer whose economy is characterized by high energy intensity. Russian energy sector needs serious improvements in technology, investment, and management: failure to address these priorities erodes Russia’s reliability as major regional energy supplier. The chapter explores the dynamics of Russian energy sector and implications for European energy security and sustainability.

scholarly journals Sustainability Indicators and Environmental Safety Management as Illustrated with an Example of the Polish Energy Sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 389-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wioletta Skrodzka ◽  
Olga Kiriliuk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
The Eu

AbstractPower engineering is one of the key areas of sustainable development. Many countries create new concepts of environmental safety management and modify their energy systems to be in line with the goals of sustainable development in the EU. Sustainable development indicators can be a tool for monitoring the set goals of environmental safety management. The aim of the article is to assess the environmental safety management of the energy sector in Poland in relation to EU as well as presenting the concept of sustainable energy development and indicators used to assess the development of energy in the following dimensions: social, economic and ecological. The indicators used to assess the sustainable development of energy in the following dimensions were compared: sustainable consumption and production, marking the production and consumption of energy; organizations and sites with eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS); registration climate change, marking GHG emissions and the share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption; sustainable transport, marking the energy consumption of transport relative to GDP. The article will test the hypothesis that the structure of obtaining energy in Poland and the tempo of change in this respect differ from the EU average.

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