The Role of Poverty and Gender in Shaping Households’ Energy Consumption Patterns in Selected European Countries by Florian Marcel Nuță, Alina Gabriela Mărcuță, Levente Dimen, Liviu Mărcuță, Lucian Gaban, Nargiz Hajiyeva, Alina Cristina Nuta

“…These findings’ significance will direct policy design towards those meaningful tools that will increase energy efficiency, address energy poverty, and ensure energy just transition, leaving no one behind. …”
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Innovation in distributed energy services for sustainable development: case studies from sub-Saharan Africa by Shonali Pachauri, Olivia Coldrey, Giacomo Falchetta, Setu Pelz

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Energy and economic simulation of a renewable energy community applied to a new generation ultra-low temperature district heating and cooling network by Romagnosi Michela, Aprile Marcello, Dénaré Alice

“…The economic profits, represented by the subsidies coming from the diffuse self-consumed shared energy and from sold overproduced electricity, are distributed among the members to guarantee, first of all, an economic help against energy poverty to fragile families, and, secondly, a short pay-back-time for photovoltaics. …”
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Development of a DC Microgrid with Decentralized Production and Storage: From the Lab to Field Deployment in Rural Africa by Lucas Richard, Cédric Boudinet, Sanda A. Ranaivoson, Jean Origio Rabarivao, Archille Elia Befeno, David Frey, Marie-Cécile Alvarez-Hérault, Bertrand Raison, Nicolas Saincy

“…The rural electrification of Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia is crucial to end the energy poverty in which around 1 billion people are trapped. …”
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Effect on the Thermal Properties of Mortar Blocks by Using Recycled Glass and Its Application for Social Dwellings by Vicente Flores-Alés, Alexis Pérez-Fargallo, Jesús A. Pulido Arcas, Carlos Rubio-Bellido

“…For this research, an extended building typology that is susceptible to experiencing the risk of energy poverty has been chosen. The typology is typical for social housing, built using mortar blocks with crushed glass. …”
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Utilisation of cassava waste among processors in Akoko Southwest, Ondo State, Nigeria by Chete Oluwatoyin Bukola

“…The biogas properties of cassava waste have transformational potential in addressing energy poverty in developing economies like Nigeria.…”
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Satisfaction evaluation of a just energy transition policy: evidence from China by Haiyun Cheng, Mingniu Dong, Mingniu Dong, Cheng Zhou

“…The results of a satisfaction evaluation of 1,329 vulnerable people who have been laid off, forced to immigrate, fallen into energy poverty, had their rights and interests violated, etc., indicate that the overall satisfaction rate with a JET is 0.404 (the total values of “very satisfied” and “satisfied”), i.e., less than half. …”
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A review of sustainable planning of Burundian energy sector in East Africa by Egide Manirambona, Stephen M. Talai, Stephen K. Kimutai

“…The East African Community EAC (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan) is still challenged by energy poverty for its socio-economic development. A continuous and fast growing energy demand is expected in this region due to varied factors, such as; high population growth-rate, building sector that is rapidly expanding and exploration of untapped minerals. …”
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A Solar Photovoltaic Performance and Financial Modeling Solution for Grid-Connected Homes in Zambia by Katundu Imasiku

“…A 1 kW solar PV system was modeled at an installation cost of US$1.27 per watt on a short-term basis of 5 years and found that the project is feasible with a 28.52% IRR achieved in 3 years and a 69% performance ratio and a debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) of 5.12 by the end of the project life, thereby indicating capability to turn around Zambia’s energy poverty to meet the UN SDG 7.…”
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Investigating the determinants of household energy consumption in Nigeria: insights and implications by Ismaila Rimi Abubakar, Andrew Adewale Alola, Festus Victor Bekun, Stephen Taiwo Onifade

“…Conclusions These findings have important policy implications for energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and improving the quality of life in Nigeria, which is currently plagued with significant energy poverty, especially in rural communities.…”
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Key Economic Drivers Enabling Municipal Renewable Energy Communities’ Benefits in the Italian Context by Gianluca Ruggieri, Rebecca Gambassi, Paolo Zangheri, Matteo Caldera, Stefano F. Verde

“…The results of this analysis are relevant as they allow us to better understand the critical factors that can enable REC in providing local economic and social benefits to have a real impact on energy poverty or on the provision of local social services.…”
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Midiendo la pobreza energética. Una revisión de indicadores by Madelyn Marrero Meléndez

“…Identificar aquellos hogares en una situación de vulnerabilidad a la pobreza energética es el primer paso para abordar una problemática social a nivel mundial asociada a la falta de servicios energéticos mínimos, conocido por los términos anglosajones–Fuel Poverty y Energy Poverty, FP y EP, respectivamente. El concepto FP, definido en el Reino Unido como “la incapacidad para obtener un adecuado confort térmico debido a la ineficiencia de la vivienda”, mientras que el concepto EP refleja la imposibilidad de tener acceso a un servicio energético mínimo en países en desarrollo. …”
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Sustainable woodfuel systems: a theory of change for sub-Saharan Africa by Mary Njenga, Robin R Sears, Ruth Mendum

“…The ToC is based on the knowledge that no energy system is without flaws and that technologies exist for real quantifiable improvements in woodfuel systems while filling the energy-poverty gap. A bold rational decision must be made in rethinking woodfuel in SSA, as failure to advance woodfuel technologies undermines global efforts directed towards land restoration and climate change mitigation. …”
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A Sequential Multi-Staged Approach for Developing Digital One-Stop Shops to Support Energy Renovations of Residential Buildings by Miguel Macias Sequeira, João Pedro Gouveia

“…Deep energy renovation of residential buildings is key for decarbonization and energy poverty alleviation. However, renovation is occurring at far below the needed pace and depth. …”
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Assessment of solar e-cookers social acceptance in Gaza Strip by Hala J. El-Khozenadar, Tamer Khatib, Besan Attaee, Rifa J. El-Khozondar

“…Finally it is concluded that noticed support of using solar energy in Gaza according to this research is directly associated with energy poverty status in Gaza. Meanwhile, the idea of using green alternative energy is very acceptable in Gaza but there is a clear lack of awareness of technologies aspects and characteristics.…”
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Maintaining the Sustainable Energy Systems: Turning from Cost to Value by U. Yе. Pysmenna, G. S. Trypolska

“…Understanding energy trends implications in the long-term perspective is crucial for responsible and informed sustainability-policy making, with respect to transformations required to enhance the security of energy supply, resource efficiency and affordability, as well to as transformations required to minimize energy poverty and mitigate ecological footprint. Nowadays the price (value) competitiveness of technologies and products as their ability to respond to sustainability demands is becoming the appreciable criterion in choosing the pathways of technological growth or economic strategies designing. …”
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Forecasting Solar Home System Customers’ Electricity Usage with a 3D Convolutional Neural Network to Improve Energy Access by Vivien Kizilcec, Catalina Spataru, Aldo Lipani, Priti Parikh

“…Off-grid technologies, such as solar home systems (SHS), offer the opportunity to alleviate global energy poverty, providing a cost-effective alternative to an electricity grid connection. …”
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The Importance of Public Sources of Financing the Development of Renewable Energy in Agriculture, Using the Example of Eastern Poland by Renata Przygodzka, Aleksandra Badora, Krzysztof Kud, Jarosław Mioduszewski, Marian Woźniak, Artur Stec

“…Since it is a region characterized by a relatively high share of agriculture in the economy, a diversified structure of this sector, and at the same time, a region with a relatively high level of energy poverty, it can be considered a good example for illustrating the research problem. …”
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Climate shocks, adaptive mechanisms and household energy transition in Uganda by Joseph Elasu, Joseph Mpeera Ntayi, Muyiwa S. Adaramola, Faisal Buyinza, Ronnette Atukunda, Muhamad Ngoma

“…Climate parameters including; temperature, solar radiation, wind, and moisture have been widely touted as having an impact on multidimensional energy poverty, their effect on household energy consumption and subsequent transition to cleaner fuels is seldom investigated in Uganda. …”
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Willingness to Pay for Renovation of Multi-Flat Buildings and to Share the Costs of Renovation by Dalia Streimikiene, Tomas Balezentis

“…These countries have inherited old, energy inefficient residential buildings from their Soviet past, and their inhabitants are locked in energy poverty because of their inability to renovate their apartments. …”
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