Beyond the Energy Poor/Non Energy Poor Divide: Energy Vulnerability and Mindsets on Energy Generation Modes in Hungary

Adrienne Csizmady, Zoltán Ferencz, Lea Kőszeghy and Gergely Tóth
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Adrienne Csizmady: Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, 1097 Budapest, Hungary
Zoltán Ferencz: Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, 1097 Budapest, Hungary
Lea Kőszeghy: Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, 1097 Budapest, Hungary
Gergely Tóth: Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, 1097 Budapest, Hungary

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 20, 1-19

Abstract: In the Hungarian as well as the international literature, debates regarding the methodology used for measuring energy poverty are ongoing. Our contribution sought to develop a methodology that would be relatively easy to measure via survey and have the potential to identify households’ energy vulnerability status beyond the energy poor/non energy poor divide. Based on a representative survey that was carried out in Hungary in 2018, we identified three groups of households: energy poor, non energy poor households, and a so-called transitional group, potentially at risk of energy poverty. In addition to socioeconomic differences, we analysed differences in the mindsets of respondents belonging to these three household groups concerning different aspects of heating energy generation (macrolevel aspects, such as environmental sustainability and energy supply system issues, and microlevel aspects, such as economic and technical issues). By this, the article aims to provide input for further research on factors, beyond the social and economic background, related to energy vulnerability.

Keywords: energy poverty; heating modes; consciousness; indicators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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