Published on: November 12, 2020
1- LOCAL PILOT SITE ASSESSMENT Padova is a city in the North-East of Italy (Veneto Region) with a population of 210,000 inhabitants. The city has an increasing number of single-person elderly households and single-parent families, of which many are headed by women. The assessment of local energy poverty conditions found the following typologies of vulnerable… Read More »Padova (Italy)
Published on: November 12, 2020
1- LOCAL PILOT SITE ASSESSMENT Marseille is located in Provence- Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Bouches du Rhône within the Aix Marseille Provence Metropolitan area which counts 1,9 million inhabitants. On the territory, more than 70,000 households are vulnerables to energy poverty. Part of the existing housing stock is in a state of disrepair, often housing the poorest… Read More »Marseille (France)
Published on: November 12, 2020
1- LOCAL PILOT SITE ASSESSMENT The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) is a dense, unequal urban region with 36 municipalities (including the city of Barcelona) and over 3.2 million inhabitants. In 2016 over 100,000 people living in the AMB reported energy and water poverty conditions with around 10% of the City of Barcelona’s population unable… Read More »Barcelona Metropolitan Area (Catalonia, Spain)
Published on: July 1, 2020
Today, women are more likely to face poverty and hence, more affected by energy poverty. Therefore, it becomes clear that gender inequality increases the risk of energy poverty. Although EU institutions acknowledge the need to reduce energy poverty by organising financial support programmes, this report finds that considerations of gender dimensions within the evaluated programmes… Read More »Report on gender aspects of existing financial schemes for energy poverty measures