Energy poverty policies: reviewing the policy design

Energy poverty is a complex, multidimensional and context-based challenge. Thus, policy approaches need to be comprehensive and coherent with the other public policies. To achieve this, multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder bodies, dedicated to designing energy poverty policies and measures, should be established at the national and local levels in particular. In parallel, the adverse impacts of various other policies (fiscal, labour, climate, housing, energy, etc.) on energy poverty need to be assessed and steps taken to minimize or eliminate them. Critically, energy poverty policies must be designed through participatory processes, involving the people affected.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Catalogue of existing good practice examples of programmes and interventions : Deliverable 2.1

This document (D2.1) provides an overview of the extensive data that has been collected on sustainable energy consumption initiatives as part of Work Package 2 (WP2) in ENERGISE. The deliverable provides a general introduction to the scope and objectives of WP2 specifically, as well as a short introduction as to how sustainable energy consumption initiatives are defined in ENERGISE. In addition, a full list is provided of 1000+ sustainable energy consumption initiatives that have been identified throughout Europe

Production of 30 National Summary briefs : Deliverable 2.5

This document (ENERGISE D2.5) provides an overview of national energy and supply dynamics across 30 European countries. The Deliverable encompasses reviews of the current state of the art and existing trends in national energy policies, energy systems and energy campaigns in each of the 30 countries. To enhance accessibility and engagement with the material, the information gathered is presented in 30 independent National Briefs

An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 priority research questions

IN ENGLISH: Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society’s relation to energy (efficiency) even means—have been underutilised. In particular, (i) the SSH have too often been sidelined and/or narrowly pigeonholed by policymakers, funders, and other decision-makers when driving research agendas, and (ii) the setting of SSH-focused research agendas has not historically embedded inclusive and deliberative processes. The aim of this paper is to address these gaps through the production of a research agenda outlining future SSH research priorities for energy efficiency. A Horizon Scanning exercise was run, which sought to identify 100 priority SSH questions for energy efficiency research. This exercise included 152 researchers with prior SSH expertise on energy efficiency, who together spanned 62 (sub-)disciplines of SSH, 23 countries, and a full range of career stages. The resultant questions were inductively clustered into seven themes as follows: (1) Citizenship, engagement and knowledge exchange in relation to energy efficiency; (2) Energy efficiency in relation to equity, justice, poverty and vulnerability; (3) Energy efficiency in relation to everyday life and practices of energy consumption and production; (4) Framing, defining and measuring energy efficiency; (5) Governance, policy and political issues around energy efficiency; (6) Roles of economic systems, supply chains and financial mechanisms in improving energy efficiency; and (7) The interactions, unintended consequences and rebound effects of energy efficiency interventions. Given the consistent centrality of energy efficiency in policy programmes, this paper highlights that well-developed SSH approaches are ready to be mobilised to contribute to the development, and/or to understand the implications, of energy efficiency measures and governance solutions. Implicitly, it also emphasises the heterogeneity of SSH policy evidence that can be produced. The agenda will be of use for both (1) those new to the energy-SSH field (including policyworkers), for learnings on the capabilities and capacities of energy-SSH, and (2) established energy-SSH researchers, for insights on the collectively held futures of energy-SSH research. --------------- IN CROATIAN: Desetljeća donošenja tehnološko-ekonomskih energetskih politika i istraživanja energetike obilježena su nedovoljnom iskorištenošću dokaza iz društvenih i humanističkih znanosti, što uključuje i kritičke osvrte na to što uopće podrazumijeva mijenjanje odnosa društva prema energetskoj učinkovitosti. Konkretno, (i) društveno-humanističke znanosti predugo su gurali u stranu ili preusko tematski definirali donositelji politika, financijeri i drugi koji su odlučivali o upravljanju istraživačkim programima, i (ii) okruženje društveno-humanističkih istraživačkih programa nije u prošlosti uključivalo inkluzivne i savjetodavne procese. Svrha ovoga rada je premostiti te razlike stvaranjem istraživačkog programa koji će naznačiti buduće prioritete društveno-humanističkih istraživanja energetske učinkovitosti. Primijenjena je vježba Horizon Scanning, kojom je identificirano 100 prioritetnih društveno-humanističkih (D-H) istraživačkih pitanja za istraživanje energetske učinkovitosti. Vježba je uključivala 152 istraživača s prijašnjim D-H iskustvom vezanim za energetsku učinkovitost, raspoređenih u 62 D-H (pod)discipline, iz 23 države i u svim stadijima karijere. Dobivena pitanja induktivno su podijeljena u sedam tematskih klastera: (1) Građanstvo, uključenost i razmjena znanja o energetskoj učinkovitosti; (2) Energetska učinkovitost u odnosu na jednakost, pravednost, siromaštvo i ranjivost; (3) Energetska učinkovitost u odnosu na svakodnevni život i prakse proizvodnje i potrošnje energije; (4) Smještanje u okvir, definiranje i mjerenje energetske učinkovitosti; (5) Upravljanje, javne politike i politička pitanja u vezi s energetskom učinkovitosti; (6) Uloge gospodarskih sustava, lanaca opskrbe i financijskih mehanizama u unaprjeđivanju energetske učinkovitosti; i (7) Interakcije, nenamjeravane posljedice i povratni učinci intervencija vezanih za energetsku učinkovitost. S obzirom na to da je energetska učinkovitost konzistentno središnje pitanje u programima javnih politika, ovim se radom ističe da su dobro razvijeni D-H pristupi spremni za mobilizaciju kako bi doprinijeli razvoju mjera i upravljačkih odluka vezanih za energetsku učinkovitost, i/ili razumijevanju njihovih implikacija. Implicitno, rad naglašava heterogenost dokaza za D-H politike do kojih se može doći. Program će koristiti s jedne strane (1) onima kojima je D-H područje energetike novo (uključujući praktičare javnih politika) za učenje o mogućnostima i kapacitetima D-H energetike, a s druge i (2) etabliranim istraživačima D-H energetike za uvide u zajedničku budućnost istraživanja u tom području