Tackling energy poverty through collective advisory assemblies and electricity and comfort monitoring campaigns
Ortiz, Joana (Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya)
Jiménez Martínez, Mariana (Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya)
Alegría-Sala, Alba (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria de Projectes i de la Construcció)
Tirado Herrero, Sergio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
González-Pijuan, Irene (Enginyeria Sense Fronteres)
Guiteras Blaya, Mònica (Enginyeria Sense Fronteres)
Canals Casals, Lluc (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria de Projectes i de la Construcció)

Date:	2021
Abstract:	The present work aims to describe and analyze the results of the interventions carried out in the Barcelona pilot site of the EmpowerMed project. The overall objective of EmpowerMed is to tackle energy poverty and to help improve the health of people in coastal areas of Mediterranean countries, with a particular focus on women. The main support approach implemented in Barcelona is Collective Advisory Assemblies (CAA), in the framework of Alliance against Energy Poverty. CAA is an innovative, collaborative empowering engagement tool that offers an alternative to the more traditional one-off individual household advice and support approaches. CAAs take place together with a monitoring campaign where: electricity consumption is analyzed to optimize the supply contracts, and indoor environmental comfort to provide recommendations for wellbeing im-provement. Through the different approaches, a characterization of the people that have participated in the Barcelona pilot site was completed, from a socioeconomic, energy, thermal comfort and air quality perspective. Additionally, it was compared with a group of energy poverty non-affected households, which are involved in the monitoring campaign. Finally, the impact was quantified in terms of empowerment of energy poverty population and, potential economic savings.
Grants:	European Commission 847052 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-1219
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Energy poverty ; Collective advisory assembly ; Smart meters ; Thermal comfort ; Air quality ; Gender
Published in:	Sustainability, Vol. 13, Issue 17 (September 2021) , art. 9671, ISSN 2071-1050

DOI: 10.3390/su13179671

28 p, 3.5 MB

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