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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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Recent webinar: Smart homes & fuel poverty in Australia: improving outcomes or locking in vulnerabilities? Click here for the video.
Agnes Berner; Freya Burns; Hannah Dunne; Isabella Impesi; Marjan van de Weg (2023)
Report Open Access
This report provides evidence of the drivers, impacts, and extent of fuel poverty in rural Scotland. It also presents several interlinking factors which combine and compound each other to produce a ‘perfect storm’ for severe fuel poverty.
Agnes Berner; Freya Burns; Hannah Dunne; Isabella Impesi (2023)
Report Open Access
This report presents potential solutions to addressing fuel poverty in rural Scotland. The solutions are grouped into nine themes with indications of timescale for implementations included.
Georgios Konstantopoulos; Eleni Kanellou; Konstantinos Kontogiannis (2023)
Academic Paper Open Access
In this paper the authors review energy poverty alleviation actions by community energy initiatives across Europe, and identify best practices and challenges. They then discuss implications for energy communities in Greece.
Stefan Bouzarovski; Jurica Brajković; Slavica Robić; Charlotte Brown; Ivana Vuchkova (2023)
Academic Paper Open Access
This paper compares and contrasts energy poverty policies of Serbia, Montenegro, Ukraine and Georgia. The authors found that while energy poverty is included in various policies of each country, little has been done to address the significant challenges, such as improving housing quality and energy efficiency.
O Ogut; B Bartolucci; J L Parracha; C Bertolin; J N Tzortzi; F Frasca; A M Siani; M P Mendes; I Flores-Colen (2023)
Academic Paper Open Access
This paper explores the current fuel poverty context in Portugal, Italy, and Norway and identifies several differences in each location. The authors discuss the role the existing built environment plays in fuel poverty outcomes and the implications drivers and barriers influencing retrofit.
Michael Adu Okyere; Boqiang Lin (2023)
Academic Paper Open Access
This study explores the relationship between gender, disability, and energy poverty in South Africa. Their analysis finds increased risks of fuel poverty for some cohorts and they call for subsidy schemes to better account for such vulnerabilities.
Also, check out our special issue of the journal People, Policy and Place on Decarbonisation and Energy Poverty.
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