Since nearly 34 million Europeans are unable to afford to keep their homes adequately warm and the numbers are rising due to financial crisis, the European Union is increasingly targeting energy poverty in its policy action, especially energy efficiency-related policies. The Energy Efficiency Directive is …
Energy poverty and EEOS
The topics and results of the ENSMOV project were presented and disseminated at the C4E Forum in Poiana Brasov, Romania, on the 23rd of September 2021, as part of a joint session with the H2020 SocialWatt project. The main theme of the panel was tackling …
How to best use Article 7 to tackle energy poverty?
Recommendations The European Commission should revise Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) to require the Member States to assess the distributional equity of their policies. A minimum ringfence of energy savings delivered through energy efficiency obligation schemes (EEOS), and/or specifically designed alternative policy …