Energy poverty in Europe: Challenges for energy efficiency

Author

Kolokotsa, Denia ; Santamouris, Mathew

Author_Institution

Environ. Eng. Sch., Polytechnioupolis, Chania, Greece

fYear

2014

fDate

7-9 July 2014

Firstpage

229

Lastpage

234

Abstract

Energy and fuel poverty is an increasing problem in the European Union. Although the specific conditions vary from country to country the drivers defining fuel and energy poverty are similar in all Europe. This paper aims to present the characteristics of the low income housing including details on the thermal and environmental quality of houses and the specific energy consumption. Existing energy efficiency and passive solar technologies to improve the energy and environmental quality of low income houses are reviewed and discussed while real projects addressing issues related to the energy performance of poor households are presented.

Keywords

building management systems; buildings (structures); energy conservation; environmental factors; European Union; energy efficiency technologies; energy poverty; environmental quality; fuel poverty; houses; low income housing; passive solar technologies; real projects addressing issues; specific energy consumption; thermal quality; Educational institutions; Energy consumption; Energy measurement; Europe; Heat pumps; Heating; TV; energy effiiciency; energy poverty; poor households;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, IISA 2014, The 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chania

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IISA.2014.6878736

Filename

6878736