Saving, shifting or shivering? Mapping and measuring energy poverty in the Nordic countries (EP-Nordic)

Description of the granted funding

EP-Nordic studies energy poverty and its risk factors in the Nordic countries. EP-Nordic produces new information, on how energy poverty is regionally distributed and how intense it is in each region. Sometimes energy poverty is hidden. Therefore, EP-Nordic critically assesses the currently utilized energy poverty measurement indicators' applicability to understand Nordic energy vulnerability. One research focus is on households using electricity for heating whose energy consumption patterns, and the impacts of timely-varying energy prices are studied. Research collaboration extends to Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands. Finally, EP-Nordic produces analytical tools, with which Nordic energy poverty could be better identified and measured, taking local characteristics for example in energy markets, housing stock, energy infrastructures and important social and cultural factors into account.
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Starting year

2024

End year

2028

Granted funding

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661 588 €

Funder

Research Council of Finland

Funding instrument

Academy research fellows

Päättäjä

Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities
13.06.2024

Other information

Funding decision number

360915

Fields of science

Social and economic geography

Research fields

Yhteiskunta- ja kulttuurimaantiede, kaupunkitutkimus, aluetiede