Methodological Challenges in Energy Poverty Research

Energy poverty is an endemic phenomenon affecting millions of households around the world. An abundant literature, employing various single or combined methods, is dedicated to understanding its causes, symptoms, and the lived experiences of these households.

Introduction

Energy poverty, understood as "the inability to attain a socially and materially necessitated level of domestic energy services" (Bouzarovski & Petrova, 2015) has received increasing attention in the past 15 years in the global North. Both policy makers and researchers have investigated the topic, with energy poverty emerging as a policy issue in Europe in 2009 (Bouzarovski et al., 2012). The issue became even more acute with the Covid-19 pandemic (Hesselman et al., 2021), the ensuing European energy price crisis and with the war in Ukraine, when the topic became central to policy debates in many countries and at...

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