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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Mylene Riva; Laurianne Debanné; Sophie Kutuka; Morgen Bertheussen; Kimberley C. O'Sullivan; Runa R. Das (2024)
Academic Paper Open Access
This study provides an in-depth and multi-faceted understanding of the causes, distribution, and consequences of energy poverty in Bridgewater (Canada). The analysis highlight that local action on energy poverty needs to be prioritized for a just energy transition.
Sangeetha Chandrashekeran; Julia de Bruyn; Damian Sullivan; David Bryant (2024)
Academic Paper Open Access
This paper explores the barriers and enabling factors to electrifying lower-income homes in Australia. The authors developed a relational framework based on a typological analysis to counterpose those lower-income households with strong and weak adaptive capacities, and high and low vulnerability to energy hardship.
Various (2024)
Other
A comprehensive edited book providing discussion and evidence of consumer protection and consumer behaviour in selected jurisdictions worldwide.
Elisenda Jové-Llopis; Elisa Trujillo-Baute (2024)
Academic Paper Open Access
This paper assesses the effectiveness of income transfer and energy retrofit policies in relation to reducing energy poverty. There are strengths and limitations to both approaches, with the greatest reduction in energy poverty occurring through combining approaches.
Jani P. Lukkarinen; Runa R. Das; Senja Laakso; Mari Martiskainen (2024)
Academic Paper Open Access
This paper examines household energy vulnerabilities, their exposure and sensitivity to certain risks, and what their adaptive capacity is in navigating those in social housing in Canada and housing cooperatives in Finland. The analysis finds interconnected exposures and sensitivities to risks are contextual which has implications for responses in different regions.
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