High energy burden and low-income energy affordability: conclusions from a literature review
By Marilyn A. Brown, Anmol Soni, M. Lapsa, Katie Southworth, M. Cox. Progress in Energy, 2020
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In an era of U.S. energy abundance, the persistently high energy bills paid by low-income households is troubling. After decades of weatherization and bill-payment programs, low-income households still spend a higher percent of their income on electricity and gas bills than any other income group. Their energy burden is not declining, and it remains persistently high in particular geographies such as the South, rural America, and minority communities. As public agencies and utilities attempt to transition to a sustainable energy future, many of the programs that promote energy efficiency, rooftop solar, electric vehicles, and home batteries are largely inaccessible to low-income households due to affordability barriers. This review describes the ecosystem of stakeholders and programs, and identifies promising opportunities to address low-income energy affordability, such as behavioral economics, data analytics, and leveraging health care benefits. Scalable approaches require linking programs and policies to tackle the complex web of causes and impacts faced by financially constrained households.
Subfields: Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Determinants, persistence, and dynamics of energy poverty: An empirical assessment using German household survey data (2021, background): “These trade-offs create negative feedback loops that traps households in energy poverty and poverty in general (Lapsa et al., 2020).”
- The impact of policies and business models on income equity in rooftop solar adoption (2020, unknown): “6 1 Brown et al. (2020); 2 Carley & Konisky (2020); 3 Sigrin & Mooney (2018)”