Fuel Poverty in the European Union: A Multi-Methods Study.
Fuel poverty, or the inability to access or afford energy, impacts on the capabilities of households to attain a socially and materially needed level of energy services to participate in society. Fuel poverty is a significant social, economic, environmental and public health problem in New Zealand, affecting an estimated one in four households.
The original contribution to knowledge made by this thesis is in offering a novel comparative analysis of the potential for the state and energy suppliers to effectively support fuel poor households. This research offers one of the first academic assessments of the new suite of policies championed by the coalition government formed in 2010.
Overall, fuel poverty is of significant social concern to the Scottish population and occurs when a household spends 10% or more of their income on fuel to adequately heat their home. The main factors influencing fuel poverty are fuel prices, income, and household condition.
Fuel poverty in the UK has come to be understood as an environmental injustice due to the impact of national climate change mitigation strategies on rising fuel prices (Walker, 2012).
This project investigates to what extent infrared thermography can be applied to improve the identification of households at risk of fuel poverty. As a method for qualitatively assessing the thermal efficiency of buildings, infrared thermography cannot be used to obtain estimates of indoor temperatures or allow inferences about the energy consumption behaviour of the occupants.
Fuel poverty: Agency in Sustainable Architecture. A dissertation submitted to the Manchester School of Architecture for the degree of Master of Architecture.
Fuel poverty can be defined as an individual being not capable of affording those resources to keep them in warm condition. Boardman (1991) defined fuel poverty as the inability of a household to acquire energy sources such as heating by using 1o percent of their household income.