ORTIZ, Joana, JIMÉNEZ MARTÍNEZ, Mariana, ALEGRÍA-SALA, Alba, TIRADO-HERRERO, Sergio, GONZÁLEZ PIJUAN, Irene, GUITERAS BLAYA, Mònica and CANALS CASALS, Lluc (2021). Tackling Energy Poverty through Collective Advisory Assemblies and Electricity and Comfort Monitoring Campaigns. Sustainability, 13 (17).
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Abstract
The present work aims to describe and analyze the results of the interventions carried out in the Barcelona pilot site of the EmpowerMed project. The overall objective of EmpowerMed is to tackle energy poverty and to help improve the health of people in coastal areas of Mediterranean countries, with a particular focus on women. The main support approach implemented in Barcelona is Collective Advisory Assemblies (CAA), in the framework of Alliance against Energy Poverty. CAA is an innovative, collaborative empowering engagement tool that offers an alternative to the more traditional one-off individual household advice and support approaches. CAAs take place together with a monitoring campaign where: electricity consumption is analyzed to optimize the supply contracts, and indoor environmental comfort to provide recommendations for wellbeing improvement. Through the different approaches, a characterization of the people that have participated in the Barcelona pilot site was completed, from a socioeconomic, energy, thermal comfort and air quality perspective. Additionally, it was compared with a group of energy poverty non-affected households, which are involved in the monitoring campaign. Finally, the impact was quantified in terms of empowerment of energy poverty population and, potential economic savings.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | ** From MDPI via Jisc Publications Router ** Licence for this article: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ **Journal IDs: eissn 2071-1050 **History: published 27-08-2021; accepted 24-08-2021 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | energy poverty, collective advisory assembly, smart meters, thermal comfort, air quality, gender |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179671 |
SWORD Depositor: | Colin Knott |
Depositing User: | Colin Knott |
Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2021 12:57 |
Last Modified: | 03 Sep 2021 13:00 |
URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/28982 |
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