Measuring energy poverty: Focusing on what matters

By Patrick Nussbaumer, Morgan D. Bazilian, Vijay Modi, K. Yumkella. 2012

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Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Pollution, Safety Research

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Energy Poverty and Its Implication on Standard of Living in Kirinyaga, Kenya (2018, positive): “Authors in [34] have proposed multidimensional energy poverty index (MEPI) a measure composed of five dimensions representing basic energy services.”
Conceptualising energy use and energy poverty using a capabilities framework (2016, neutral): “References to capability theory and/or the ideas of capabilities and functionings have been made to a limited degree in previous work on energy poverty and energy vulnerability (Day and Walker, 2011; Walker and Day, 2012; Nussbaumer et al., 2012; Bouzarovski and Petrova, 2015) but without significan”
Modeling sustainable long-term electricity supply-demand in Africa (2017, positive): “Electricity demand is projected, thanks to some econometric relationships to income and population growth projections associated with the elasticities (Bazilian et al. 2012; Nussbaumer et al. 2012).”
Imagining renewable energy: Towards a Social Energy Systems approach to community renewable energy projects in the Global South (2017, neutral): “inconsistencies that still exist within discussions over the measurement of the concept [9,10].”
Energy poverty indicators: A critical review of methods (2017, neutral): “they will often not admit being uncomfortably cold at home.(58) The distorting effects due to cultural differences in the perception of indoor warmth and domestic energy affordability were highlighted in cross-country comparisons in the EU.”
Energy poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation: is there a trade off? (2013, neutral): “, the Total Energy Inconvenience Threshold (Mirza and Szirmai, 2010) and the Multidimensional Energy Poverty Index (Nussbaumer et al., 2012).”
Global Insights Based on the Multidimensional Energy Poverty Index (MEPI) (2013, positive): “As an aside, we also note that previous analysis [18] indicated that the improvement in the MEPI over a given timeframe is greater in countries where the starting level of energy poverty is lower.”
Energy justice for all? Rethinking Sustainable Development Goal 7 through struggles over traditional energy practices in Sierra Leone (2017, neutral): “As the approach of SDG7 illustrates, at present the energy geographies of much of the developing world are poorly understood and policy development occurs in a relative empirical void (Nussbaumer et al., 2012).”
A global perspective on domestic energy deprivation: Overcoming the energy poverty-fuel poverty binary (2015, positive): “’s [94] Multidimensional Energy Poverty Index (MEPI) in the case of energy poverty; and affordability, thermal comfort and Hills’ [103] Low Income High Cost (LIHC) measure in the case of fuel poverty.”