The FPRN email bulletin is a semi-regular email highlighting a handpicked selection of recently published research and other knowledge outputs in the area of fuel/energy poverty from around the world. The aim is to share this emerging knowledge more widely and to help generate discussion across the network.
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Florian Hanke; Rosie Day; Kevin Burchell; Harriet Thomson (2025)
Academic Paper Open Access
This paper presents data from 77 energy communities in 14 European countries, with 6 in-depth case studies, and examines innovation journeys of energy communities in addressing energy poverty.
Maria Castillo; Katie Ebinger; Carina Rosenbach; Joe Daniel (2025)
Report Open Access
This handbook explores summer disconnections in the USA and potential solutions to reduce this from occurring.
Richard Machin; Carolin Hess (2025)
Academic Paper Open Access
The article analyses warm spaces in England as an emerging form of localised welfare provision, investigating the lived experience and resilience of attendees in the face of austerity and the role of the warm space in responding to it.
Dagmawe Tenaw (2025)
Academic Paper Open Access
This paper explores the expansion of electrification in Africa and why a substantial gap persists between grid access and the actual uptake of the grid.
Lucy H. Baker; Umberto Cao; Ellen Fungisai Chipango; Hilman Syahri Fathoni; Paul G. Munro; Shanil Samarakoon (2025)
Book Chapter Open Access
The chapter presents the rejected reform process of the electricity sector proposed in Mexico and explores the political and geopolitical complexity when a country in the global South deals with the interdependent challenges of energy poverty alleviation, greenhouse gas emissions reduction and energy sovereignty, by resorting to state capitalism.
Helena Hastie; Leila Dawney; Catherine Butler (2025)
Academic Paper Open Access
Through empirical research in ‘warm spaces’, which are community-led responses to the growing problem of energy poverty in the United Kingdom, the paper reframes typical understandings of energy poverty as an individual or household problem by demonstrating the value of more collective responses.
Committee on Fuel Poverty (2025)
Report Open Access
This study examines energy affordability for fuel poor households in England. It identifies the structural elements of energy bills that contribute to inequity, assesses the impact of innovative tariffs on fuel poor households and explores policy options to improve bill equity.
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