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
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
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
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
This document is an important European legislative document concerning the energy market, which includes in art. 3(3) the obligation to "define the concept of vulnerable customers which may refer to energy poverty".Read more
This document provides the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the initiative of the European Commission to establish a European charter on the rights of energy consumers.Read more
This document provides a resolution of the European Parliament on the initiative of the European Commission to establish a European charter on the rights of energy consumers.Read more
Daily numbers of deaths at a regional level were collected in 16 European countries. Summer mortality was analyzed for the reference period 1998-2002 and for 2003. More than 70,000 additional deaths occurred in Europe during the summer 2003. Major distortions occurred in the age distribution of...Read more
Effective consumer rights are essential to ensure that liberalisation successfully delivers real choice and gives consumers the confidence to switch supplier if they wish to do so. Consumers will be active players on the energy market if they are effectively protected. The European Union's...Read more
Low-income households spend a substantial share of their income on utility services such as electricity, heating and water. The difficulty of these socially vulnerable consumers to absorb further price increases is often used as an argument against tariff reform. However, detailed quantitative...Read more
The UK Government is committed to abolishing fuel poverty amongst vulnerable households by the year 2010 and in the general population by 2016, but definition and measurement of fuel poverty remains controversial. We define a new measure of subjective household experience and explore links...Read more