News & Events

In this section you will find information about the latest upcoming events that are relevant to energy poverty, as well as news items, and guest perspective articles from leading stakeholders on key issues in the field. The content shown here has been produced by external users as well as the EU Energy Poverty Observatory team.

Latest News

Energy poverty in Eastern and Central Europe: Announcing the EVALUATE project

08 Oct 2013

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Poland

Romania

In the following guest article, Professor Stefan Bouzarovski introduces EVALUATE, a new project focussing on energy vulnerability issues in Eastern and Central Europe. Even though evidence about the...

Upcoming Events

18 Jun 2019

EUSEW Session - Ending energy poverty: how EU citizens are taking action

Policy eventPublic campaign

European Union

In a time of climate emergency, millions of Europeans still cannot afford their energy bills, and live in inefficient, wasteful, and sometimes dangerous dwellings. Awareness of energy poverty has never been higher in Europe -- and this has resulted in the strongest-ever inclusion of the issue in...

19 Jun 2019

EUSEW Session - Multilevel and participatory action to tackle energy poverty

Policy eventPublic campaign

European Union

The clean energy transition is repeatedly called to be a just transition . It is commonly agreed that it should leave no one behind. If this is meant to be more than a simple tagline, combating energy poverty must not only be a European priority, but words now need to be followed by actions and...

19 Jun 2019

EUSEW Session - An inclusive Energy Union to address energy poverty – challenges at local level

Policy eventPublic campaign

European Union

The Clean Energy package in Europe sets out the concept for the energy transition. Consumers stand at the core of the Energy Union and through the Clean Energy transition package provisions are laid down in order to make consumers benefit from energy transition and on top of that, new provisions...