The EU Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV) is an initiative by the European Commission to support Member States in their efforts to alleviate energy poverty. Its principal mission is to engender transformational change in knowledge about the state of energy poverty in Europe, and innovative...Read more
This report analyses the situatino of energy poverty in Austria. It analyses the energy usage of and energy prices for energy poor households.Read more
Energy poverty (EP) is a growing problem in the European Union (EU) that affects the population's health. EP is structurally determined by broader political and socio-economic conditions. Our aims were to analyze the configuration of these determinants in each EU-27 country through the creation...Read more
The Atlas of Initiatives of Energy Poverty in Europe , prepared by the Ecoserveis Association , is the product of an exhaustive review of the practices carried out around Europe at the end of 2016. The document comprises 65...Read more
This study was commissioned by the ministry for work, social affairs, health and consumer protection. It carried out expert interviews and desk research to investigate options for the definition of energy poverty and suggested a new definition that has since been adopted by E-Control as the...Read more
This report analyses the situation of energy povert in Austria in 2014. It analyses the data from the micro census on energy to study energy costs and energy usage among different incomce groups and household types.Read more
This publication gives an overview of the process how energy poverty was defined in Austria and the situation and discussions regarding energy poverty in Austria. The effects of different policies (such as liberalisation) and technologies (such as the pre-payment meter) on energy poverty is...Read more
This report summarises the existing literature on policies used to tackle affordability pressures in the energy, water, telecoms and transport sectors within the EU. Both EU level and policies within individual member states are considered. The paper highlights the wide variation in the...Read more
This report surveys the affordability of energy, water, telecoms and transport services across the EU. It maps the share of household expenditure devoted to these different utilities across member states, looks at the ways to assess affordability in different sectors and reviews the literature...Read more
In this report Energy-Control Austria assesses the extent of energy poverty in Austria and suggests measures against it. For this purpose, several definitions of energy poverty are presented and attempts to measure energy poverty are made. The results are evaluated by four experts in statistics...Read more
