Funded Projects

Our funding programme Energy Poverty in Early Career (EPEC) has funded 17 projects since it's launch in 2020.


Our funding programme Energy Poverty in Early Career (EPEC) has funded 17 projects since it’s launch in 2020. You can use the list below to link through to more information about the projects, including summary reports and other outputs.

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EPEC Round 1

Children’s fight against energy poverty
Irene González Pijuan Sheffield Hallam University

Energy culture in energy poverty settings in south Chile
Alejandra Cortés Universidad de Chile
Catalina Amigo Universidad de Chile

Translating community based research on electrification into resources for policy and practice
Hannah Mottram University of Sheffield

The lived experience of energy poverty in Georgia
Nino Antadze University of Prince Edward Island

Investigating cognitive effects of energy poverty
Florian Hanke European University Viadrina

Understanding cooling poverty and thermal comfort in disadvantaged communities of Rio de Janeiro
Antonella Mazzone University of Oxford

What happened to the outside? Exploring the role of ‘nature’ in household retrofits
Sarah Robertson RMIT University

Precariousness in the access to electricity through prepayment meters in Hungary (PREPAY)
Sergio Tirado Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Multiple vulnerabilities – Examining the fuel and food poverty nexus
Bhavna Middha RMIT University

EPEC Round 2

Indigenous Energy Poverty in non-electrified rural localities: Analyzing its interlinkages in the Educational and Community space (InEPEC)
Susana Guzmán Rosas San Luis Potosi Institute for Technology (ITSLP)

“High Tension”: An ethnographic monograph about an indigenous social resistance movement fighting for and through electricity.
Umberto Cao French National Centre for Scientific Research

Prototyping Fuel Poverty Alleviation Policies with Housing Association Professionals
Tijn Croon Delft University of Technology

Combatting Energy Poverty with Solar Microgrids in Malawi: Disseminating an Evidence-Base to Accelerate Deployment
Aran Eales University of Strathclyde

Social impacts of climate change: examining inequalities in fuel affordability
Li Ang The University of Melbourne

Mapping summer energy poverty geographies of older adults
Daniel Torrego Universidad de Alicante
Marta Gayoso Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

A linguistic analysis of pre- and since-COVID representations of fuel poverty
Leigh Harrington University of Manchester

Don’t let energy poverty alleviation goals go up in smoke!
Anna Zsófia Bajomi Polytechnic University of Milan