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Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Energy poverty in the context of liberalisation and the economic crisis’ (exploratory opinion)

European Economic and Social Committee
2010
EU European Union
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Liberalisation

The prices of electricity, gas and other fuels such as coal are still rising, and this trend looks set to continue in the coming years, which means that, unless swift and effective action is taken, the number of vulnerable energy consumers could also increase markedly. The purpose of this...Read more

Study on Regulation of Tariffs and Quality of the Gas Distribution Service in the Energy Community

KEMA Consulting
2010
AL AlbaniaBA Bosnia and HerzegovinaHR CroatiaMK Former Yugoslav Republic of MacedoniaMD MoldovaME MontenegroRS SerbiaGE GeorgiaTR TurkeyUA UkraineXK Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244/99)EU European UnionAT AustriaSI Slovenia
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Energy prices and costs
Vulnerability

The overall objective of this report is to provide an overview of natural gas pricing issues (distribution and retail) in the EC member states and compare them with the European best practice. It analyses tariff levels, tariff and quality regulations and specific treatments for vulnerable...Read more

Strategies to reduce energy costs in low income households (Strategien zur Senkung von Energiekosten in einkommensschwachen Haushalten)

Pietsch, L.; Benz, I.; Schweizer-Ries, P.
2010
DE GermanyFR FrancePL PolandIT ItalyGB United KingdomEU European Union
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Low income
Behaviour

In the project "FinSH - Financial and Support Instruments for Fuel Poverty in Social Housing", project partners from France, Great Britain, Italy, Poland and Germany have developed Europe-wide strategies for reducing energy poverty of low-income households. For this purpose, a comprehensive...Read more

Energy deprivation dynamics and regulatory reforms in Europe: Evidence from household panel data

Poggi, A. and Florio, M.
2010
EU European Union
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Liberalisation
Energy prices and costs

The typical ingredients of energy reforms in the European Union (EU) in the 1990s were full or partial privatization, vertical disintegration and liberalization. This paper analyses the effects of energy reforms on the probability of households experiencing deprivation, defined as difficulty in...Read more

Study on the Energy Savings Potentials in EU Member States, Candidate Countries and EEA Countries: Final Report for the European Commission Directorate-General Energy and Transport .

Eichhammer, W., Fleiter, T., Schlomann, B., Faberi, S., Fioretto, M., Piccioni, N., Lechtenböhmer, S., Schüring, A., Resch, G., Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research isi
2009
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The main focus of this report is to prepare the analytic basis for an in-depth discussion of economic energy efficiency potentials in the different energy-end uses.Read more

Diagnosis of causes and consequences of fuel poverty in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom

European Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Project (EPEE)
2009
BE BelgiumFR FranceIT ItalyES SpainGB United KingdomEU European Union
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EPEE is an EEI project, co-financed by the European commission, which aims to increase knowledge and understanding of fuel poverty, to quantify the households in this situation and to devise some effective operational mechanisms to tackle it. This report is one of the first outputs of the EPEE...Read more

Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC

European Parliament and Council
2009
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Liberalisation

This document is an important European legislative document concerning the energy market, which includes in art. 3(7) the obligation to "define the concept of vulnerable customers which may refer to energy poverty".Read more

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