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Does cash money solve energy poverty? Assessing the impact of household heating allowances in Spain
Energy Research & Social Science ( IF 8.514 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-07 , DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102216
Roberto Barrella 1, 2 , José Ignacio Linares 1 , José Carlos Romero 1, 2 , Eva Arenas 1, 2 , Efraim Centeno 1, 2
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Energy poverty could be identified as the inability of households to attain a necessitated level of domestic energy services. Since Boardman's pioneering studies, EU Member States have progressively tackled this issue through both mitigating and structural measures. Among the former are the financial aids that seek to support vulnerable households in paying their heating bills. These widespread measures usually suffer from design problems, which can affect their efficacy. That is precisely what this paper aims to provide: an analysis of the effectiveness of the Thermal Social Allowance (TSA) in one of the Member States (Spain), as well as a proposal to redefine it, i.e. the Thermal Energy Cheque (TEC), to address some of its limitations.

For that purpose, this paper proposes a bottom-up methodology to characterise Spanish households’ theoretical expenditures for heating and domestic hot water. Then, the TEC proposal integrates this methodology in the calculation of an energy cheque that would enhance the current TSA policy. Furthermore, an impact assessment is carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of the two measures in reducing winter energy poverty.

The main findings show that in 2019 the limitations in the design of the TSA led to a reduction of winter energy poverty of only 1%, whereas the implementation of the TEC would reduce it by 11%. Nevertheless, both are costly measures that do not tackle other constituent factors of energy poverty, e.g. low energy efficiency of housing, making them unsuitable as medium-long term policies.



中文翻译:

现金能解决能源贫困吗?评估西班牙家庭取暖补贴的影响

能源贫困可以确定为家庭无法获得所需的家庭能源服务水平。自从博德曼的开创性研究以来,欧盟成员国已经通过缓解措施和结构性措施逐步解决了这个问题。前者包括寻求支持弱势家庭支付取暖费的财政援助。这些广泛使用的措施通常会受到设计问题的影响,这会影响其有效性。这正是本文旨在提供的内容:分析一个成员国(西班牙)的热社会津贴(TSA)的有效性,以及重新定义它的建议,即热能检查(TEC) ,以解决它的一些局限性。

为此,本文提出了一种自下而上的方法来描述西班牙家庭在取暖和生活热水方面的理论支出。然后,TEC 提案将此方法集成到能源检查的计算中,以增强当前的 TSA 政策。此外,还进行了影响评估,以评估这两项措施在减少冬季能源贫困方面的有效性。

主要研究结果表明,2019 年 TSA 设计的限制导致冬季能源贫困率仅减少 1%,而 TEC 的实施将减少 11%。然而,这两种措施都是昂贵的,不能解决能源贫困的其他构成因素,例如住房的低能效,使其不适合作为中长期政策。

更新日期:2021-08-07
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