Energy Poverty: Measurement and Governance in Europe and Lessons for Australia

Sangeetha Chandrashekeran, Viktoria Noka and Stefan Bouzarovski

Australian Economic Review, 2022, vol. 55, issue 4, 491-502

Abstract: In Australia there is limited understanding of the scale and nature of energy hardship or poverty. Energy poverty remains a concept with no clear definition and therefore no clear objectives, targets, metrics for data collection nor institutions to monitor and report on. Europe, in the last decade, has gone from limited public recognition of, and policy action on, energy poverty, to now having sophisticated quantitative measurement and monitoring tools, and institutional governance arrangements that promote transparency and accountability. In this paper, drawing on the European experience, we focus attention upon the measures and indicators of energy poverty and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. We propose institutional options for understanding and tackling these problems in the context of Australia's energy transition.

Date: 2022
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