Energy poverty is a condition in which a person is unable to secure materially and socially necessitated energy services in their home, and is a highly context-specific phenomenon. Renewable energy communities have considerable potential to enable citizens’ participation in the energy transition, increase access to clean, safe and affordable energy, and thus alleviate energy poverty.
This report, prepared as Part A of Deliverable 2.3 (Local state of the art on energy systems, energy poverty and assessment of preferred business model options for local energy players) for the POWER UP! project, presents and analyses the energy poverty situation at both a national scale for each of the project partners’ countries – Belgium, Czech Republic, Italy, Netherlands, North Macedonia, and Spain – as well as at the local level where the pilot projects will be implemented.
This document is the project’s deliverable D2.3: Local state of the art on energy systems, energy poverty and assessment of preferred business model options for local energy players: Part 1: Understanding Energy Poverty Characteristics at the Local Level and Part 2: Business models with a value proposition for vulnerable households
