How to save the planet and make society more equalZeeshan Hasan
Presentation on carbon fee and dividend as a politically feasible means of imposing carbon taxes which are progressive, don't cause unemployment, and stop climate change.
U.S. Department of State, Office of International Information Programs Confer...Alliance To Save Energy
In his presentation, Castelli addresses The Role of Energy Efficiency in Energy Security and Climate Change. Taking into consideration the global energy concerns and the increasinly volatile geopolitical landscape, there is a great need to improve energy intensity across the world. Energy efficiency - which is at the nexus of economic objectives, energy security & foreign policy objectives, and environmental objectives - offers a great opportunity to achieve this. Castelli discussed the roles that the public and private sectors must play to sieze this potential in Russia and former Soviet Union countries. In this area of the world, he said, energy efficiency can significantly reduce consumer energy consumption, particularly in home heating.
How to save the planet and make society more equalZeeshan Hasan
Presentation on carbon fee and dividend as a politically feasible means of imposing carbon taxes which are progressive, don't cause unemployment, and stop climate change.
U.S. Department of State, Office of International Information Programs Confer...Alliance To Save Energy
In his presentation, Castelli addresses The Role of Energy Efficiency in Energy Security and Climate Change. Taking into consideration the global energy concerns and the increasinly volatile geopolitical landscape, there is a great need to improve energy intensity across the world. Energy efficiency - which is at the nexus of economic objectives, energy security & foreign policy objectives, and environmental objectives - offers a great opportunity to achieve this. Castelli discussed the roles that the public and private sectors must play to sieze this potential in Russia and former Soviet Union countries. In this area of the world, he said, energy efficiency can significantly reduce consumer energy consumption, particularly in home heating.
Gordon Walker's presentation on fuel poverty beyond heating for the international workshop "Energy-related economic stress at the interface between transport poverty, fuel poverty and residential location", held at the University of Leeds, 20th – 21st May 2015.
Sergio Tirado Herrero - Spaces and politics of energy vulnerability in HungaryHarriet Thomson
This paper explores the embeddedness of energy poverty – understood as the inability to secure a socially- and materially-necessitated level of energy services in the home – in the socio-technical legacies inherited from past development trajectories, as well as broader economic and institutional landscapes. Using Hungary as an example, the paper investigates the recent expansion of energy poverty across different demographic and income groups.
While much of the mainstream literature focuses on cases where energy poverty affects distinct social groups and issues, the focus of this paper the systemic implications of a form of deprivation that is affecting a much wider range of social and spatial strata. It scrutinizes the different ways in which inadequate access to energy services has resulted in the emergence of new political reconfigurations among a variety of actors, while prompting the articulation of household strategies with far-reaching structural consequences.
Transformation of the Energy System thanks to Home Appliances?policysolutions
White Paper presenting 10 reasons why home appliances and electronics are one of the greatest single opportunities to reduce German energy consumption cost-effectively, together with a concept for what a German program to transform the home appliance market could look like.
Gordon Walker - What energy uses matter? Fuel poverty beyond heatingHarriet Thomson
Fuel poverty policy seeks to make the use of energy affordable, particularly for those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable. But what uses of household energy should this policy be concerned with? In the UK energy for heating is readily seen as essential because of the need for people to keep warm and healthy in their homes. Fuel poverty policy does recognise the need for household expenditure on other forms of energy use – for lighting, cooking, water
heating and appliances - but the rationale for seeing these as necessities that should be affordable for all has rarely been articulated. In our work we have examined the grounds on which energy uses can be considered essential for enabling a minimally-decent quality of life, drawing on both theoretical ideas and empirical evidence. This research has implications for the scope of current fuel poverty policy, and its overriding concern with affordable warmth rather than with supporting other outcomes from the use of energy.
Second Stakeholder Event for the Revision of Directive (REDII) 2018/2001
Session 2 Renewable energy in Heating and Cooling, Buildings and District Heating
Professor Brian Vad Mathiesen, Aalborg University
March 22, 2021, Brussels - Online
https://teresproject.wordpress.com
Presentation by Dr Giulio Mattioli www.its.leeds.ac.uk/people/g.mattioli
In the UK at present domestic energy policies are framed in terms of reducing energy consumption and emissions while at the same time taking into account issues of affordability, which are part of the established fuel poverty agenda. Similar energy affordability issues in transport have not yet drawn the same attention. This is despite increasing recognition in international research that the costs of daily mobility, notably by car, can have important economic stress impacts, e.g. leading households to curtail expenditure in other essential areas. Different terms are used in the literature to indicate such problems, including ‘forced car ownership’, ‘transport poverty’, ‘oil vulnerability’, 'commuter fuel poverty', and 'car-related economic stress'.
The presentation reports on the intermediate findings of the (t)ERES project linked to the DEMAND Research Centre. It draws on the results of both literature reviews and secondary quantitative data analysis. A first strand of work has focused on the relationships between affordability issues in three different sectors (housing, domestic energy and transport) and whether / to what extent these have been investigated in three European countries (UK, France and Germany). A second work package has focused on the similarities and differences between issues of affordability in the domestic energy and transport sector, and how these should be conceptualised. Finally, the results of the quantitative secondary analysis of British datasets (Living Costs and Food Survey, EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, MOT data) will be presented. This has allowed us to assess the incidence of car-related economic stress in the UK, the characteristics of the population concerned, as well as overlaps between different forms of economic stress.
Keeping our cities sustainably warm - Inspiring the Efficient Renewal of District Heating for the Just Transition
Brian Vad Mathiesen, Aalborg University
KeepWarm Conference, November 12, 2020, Brussels - Online
Gordon Walker's presentation on fuel poverty beyond heating for the international workshop "Energy-related economic stress at the interface between transport poverty, fuel poverty and residential location", held at the University of Leeds, 20th – 21st May 2015.
Sergio Tirado Herrero - Spaces and politics of energy vulnerability in HungaryHarriet Thomson
This paper explores the embeddedness of energy poverty – understood as the inability to secure a socially- and materially-necessitated level of energy services in the home – in the socio-technical legacies inherited from past development trajectories, as well as broader economic and institutional landscapes. Using Hungary as an example, the paper investigates the recent expansion of energy poverty across different demographic and income groups.
While much of the mainstream literature focuses on cases where energy poverty affects distinct social groups and issues, the focus of this paper the systemic implications of a form of deprivation that is affecting a much wider range of social and spatial strata. It scrutinizes the different ways in which inadequate access to energy services has resulted in the emergence of new political reconfigurations among a variety of actors, while prompting the articulation of household strategies with far-reaching structural consequences.
Transformation of the Energy System thanks to Home Appliances?policysolutions
White Paper presenting 10 reasons why home appliances and electronics are one of the greatest single opportunities to reduce German energy consumption cost-effectively, together with a concept for what a German program to transform the home appliance market could look like.
Gordon Walker - What energy uses matter? Fuel poverty beyond heatingHarriet Thomson
Fuel poverty policy seeks to make the use of energy affordable, particularly for those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable. But what uses of household energy should this policy be concerned with? In the UK energy for heating is readily seen as essential because of the need for people to keep warm and healthy in their homes. Fuel poverty policy does recognise the need for household expenditure on other forms of energy use – for lighting, cooking, water
heating and appliances - but the rationale for seeing these as necessities that should be affordable for all has rarely been articulated. In our work we have examined the grounds on which energy uses can be considered essential for enabling a minimally-decent quality of life, drawing on both theoretical ideas and empirical evidence. This research has implications for the scope of current fuel poverty policy, and its overriding concern with affordable warmth rather than with supporting other outcomes from the use of energy.
Second Stakeholder Event for the Revision of Directive (REDII) 2018/2001
Session 2 Renewable energy in Heating and Cooling, Buildings and District Heating
Professor Brian Vad Mathiesen, Aalborg University
March 22, 2021, Brussels - Online
https://teresproject.wordpress.com
Presentation by Dr Giulio Mattioli www.its.leeds.ac.uk/people/g.mattioli
In the UK at present domestic energy policies are framed in terms of reducing energy consumption and emissions while at the same time taking into account issues of affordability, which are part of the established fuel poverty agenda. Similar energy affordability issues in transport have not yet drawn the same attention. This is despite increasing recognition in international research that the costs of daily mobility, notably by car, can have important economic stress impacts, e.g. leading households to curtail expenditure in other essential areas. Different terms are used in the literature to indicate such problems, including ‘forced car ownership’, ‘transport poverty’, ‘oil vulnerability’, 'commuter fuel poverty', and 'car-related economic stress'.
The presentation reports on the intermediate findings of the (t)ERES project linked to the DEMAND Research Centre. It draws on the results of both literature reviews and secondary quantitative data analysis. A first strand of work has focused on the relationships between affordability issues in three different sectors (housing, domestic energy and transport) and whether / to what extent these have been investigated in three European countries (UK, France and Germany). A second work package has focused on the similarities and differences between issues of affordability in the domestic energy and transport sector, and how these should be conceptualised. Finally, the results of the quantitative secondary analysis of British datasets (Living Costs and Food Survey, EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, MOT data) will be presented. This has allowed us to assess the incidence of car-related economic stress in the UK, the characteristics of the population concerned, as well as overlaps between different forms of economic stress.
Keeping our cities sustainably warm - Inspiring the Efficient Renewal of District Heating for the Just Transition
Brian Vad Mathiesen, Aalborg University
KeepWarm Conference, November 12, 2020, Brussels - Online
Fuel Poverty In Hungary. Measurement, experiences and policies.
1. FUEL POVERTY IN HUNGARY. Measurements, experiences and policies. Mapping the European energy poverty research landscape: towards common action and co-operation. Brussels, Sept 30 th , 2010. Prof. DIANA ÜRGE-VORSATZ SERGIO TIRADO HERRERO Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP). Central European University (CEU).
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5. Energy prices vs. household incomes Consumer Price Index (CPI), price index of goods and services considered in CPI calculations, and rate of increase of wages and pensions in Hungary (2000-2009) Source: Tirado Herrero and Ürge-Vorsatz, forthcoming
6. The energy performance of buildings Correlation coefficient – r : 0.68 Inability to afford adequate heating vs. low quality housing* (self -reported) * Leaking roof, damp walls, floors or foundation, or rot in window frames of floor RESEARCH IN PROGRESS do not cite or quote
7. Measuring fuel poverty in Hungary Primary indicators EXPENDITURE APPROACH: % of energy expenses vs. net income 9.7% of households net income spent on energy , as an average for the period 2000-2007. Source : KSH
8. Measuring fuel poverty in Hungary Primary indicators In 2007, the average household of the 8 lower income deciles spent 10% or more of its net income on energy EXPENDITURE APPROACH: % of energy expenses vs. net income Source : KSH
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10. Measuring fuel poverty in Hungary Secondary indicators ARREARS ON UTILITY BILLS (self-reported) FUEL POVERTY-RELATED HOUSING FAULTS* (self-reported) * Leaking roof, damp walls, floors or foundation, or rot in window frames of floor
11. Measuring fuel poverty in Hungary Secondary indicators Source : KSH USE OF TRADITIONAL FUELS FOR SPACE HEATING
12. A socio-economic characterisation of fuel-poor households Source : own elaboration Review of household attributes related to fuel poverty in Hungary PRIMARY INDICATORS SECONDARY INDICATORS Expenditure-based Self-reported Arrears on utility bills Fuel poverty-related housing faults Use of trad. fuels for space heating Lower income +++ +++ +++ ++ +++ Pensioners / Elders ++ ++ - - - + + One-person household ++ ++ - + = With children - - + = = Without children = + - = = Mono-parental families n.a. ++ ++ + n.a. Large families (3 or more children) = + ++ + ++ Located in peripheral regions + n.a. n.a. n.a. +
13. District heating and panel buildings The thermal trap Low-income population Prefabricated panel buildings in suburban areas Many DH networks are now obsolete and need modernization both on the heat supplier and on the consumers’ side Fixed flat rate, no individual meters Some consumers fail to pay regularly the tariff: indebtedness DH providers do not easily allow to switch to other fuel or company Inability to control indoor temperature thermal discomfort
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