European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits

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Autor(a) principal: Sareen, Siddharth
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Thomson, Harriet, Herrero, Sergio Tirado, Gouveia, João Pedro, Lippert, Ingmar, Lis, Aleksandra
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/117272
Resumo: ENGAGER 2017–2021, CA16232
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spelling European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limitsEnergy povertyMetrologyData politicsMetricsEUPortugalSDG 1 - No PovertySDG 7 - Affordable and Clean EnergyENGAGER 2017–2021, CA16232Energy poverty, a condition whereby people cannot secure adequate home energy services, is gaining prominence in public discourse and on political and policy agendas. As its measurement is operationalised, metrical developments are being socially shaped. A European Union mandate for biennial reporting on energy poverty presents an opportunity to institutionalise new metrics and thus privilege certain measurements as standards. While combining indicators at multiple scales is desirable to measure multi-dimensional aspects, it entails challenges such as database availability, coverage and limited disaggregated resolution. This article converges scholarship on metrics e which problematises the act of measurement e and on energy poverty e which apprehends socio-political and techno-economic particulars. Scholarship on metrics suggests that any basket of indicators risks silencing significant but hard to measure aspects, or unwarrantedly privileging others. State-of-the-art energy poverty scholarship calls for indicators that represent contextualised energy use issues, including energy access and quality, expenditure in relation to income, built environment related aspects and thermal comfort levels, while retaining simplicity and comparability for policy traction. We frame energy poverty metrology as the socially shaped measurement of a varied, multi-dimensional phenomenon within historically bureaucratic and publicly distant energy sectors, and assess the risks and opportunities that must be negotiated. To generate actionable knowledge, we propose an analytical framework with five dimensions of energy poverty metrology, and illustrate it using multi-scalar cases from three European countries. Dimensions include historical trajectories, data flattening, contextualised identification, new representation and policy uptake. We argue that the measurement of energy poverty must be informed by the politics of data and scale in order to institutionalise emerging metrics, while safeguarding against their co-optation for purposes other than the deep and rapid alleviation of energy poverty. This ‘dimensioned’ understanding of metrology can provide leverage to push for decisive action to address the structural underpinnings of domestic energy deprivation.DCEA - Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do AmbienteCENSE - Centro de Investigação em Ambiente e SustentabilidadeRUNSareen, SiddharthThomson, HarrietHerrero, Sergio TiradoGouveia, João PedroLippert, IngmarLis, Aleksandra2021-05-06T22:44:10Z2020-012020-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/117272engPURE: 27879772https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2020.01.003info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T05:00:24Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/117272Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:43:34.668773Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits
title European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits
spellingShingle European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits
Sareen, Siddharth
Energy poverty
Metrology
Data politics
Metrics
EU
Portugal
SDG 1 - No Poverty
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
title_short European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits
title_full European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits
title_fullStr European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits
title_full_unstemmed European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits
title_sort European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits
author Sareen, Siddharth
author_facet Sareen, Siddharth
Thomson, Harriet
Herrero, Sergio Tirado
Gouveia, João Pedro
Lippert, Ingmar
Lis, Aleksandra
author_role author
author2 Thomson, Harriet
Herrero, Sergio Tirado
Gouveia, João Pedro
Lippert, Ingmar
Lis, Aleksandra
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv DCEA - Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente
CENSE - Centro de Investigação em Ambiente e Sustentabilidade
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Sareen, Siddharth
Thomson, Harriet
Herrero, Sergio Tirado
Gouveia, João Pedro
Lippert, Ingmar
Lis, Aleksandra
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Energy poverty
Metrology
Data politics
Metrics
EU
Portugal
SDG 1 - No Poverty
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
topic Energy poverty
Metrology
Data politics
Metrics
EU
Portugal
SDG 1 - No Poverty
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
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