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...