Fokkens, Richt (2022) “Effective Interventions for Addressing Energy Poverty in the Municipality of Leeuwarden”. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Over half a million households in the Netherlands are affected by energy poverty (EP). To address this, municipalities received funding from the Government where they have been given the freedom to determine how to spend it. This is based on the argument that every region has different needs. A literature review was conducted to present the definition of EP, the challenges of measuring EP, and negative impact of EP, and effective interventions for addressing EP. Moreover, it shows the EP indicators as developed by TNO (Mulder et al., 2021) in the context of the Netherlands as well as the Municipality of Leeuwarden. This showed that some neighborhoods for instance do have low income and high energy costs, but do not have low energetic quality homes. However, the main impediment of using these indicators for an intervention is the current AVG regulation, which constrains the use of data on individual/household-level. Moreover, not every energy-poor household self-reports their situation to the Municipality as the respondents argued that they are occupied with completely different things like ‘making ends meet’. These factors make interventions more complex as respondents and the literature argued that personal contact with an energy coach that can ensure tailor-made interventions is considered to be the most important intervention. To circumvent the AVG, the Municipality of Leeuwarden uses their internal data, including the WOZ-value, energy labels and the data about households that are on social assistance to map energy-poor households. When this phase is completed, larger-scale actions can be implemented. This study concludes that there might be a possibility to link interventions to the TNO indicators and transform them into three specializations: specializations: (1) consumer behavior, (2) technical solutions; (3) financial and legal support. However, practice should show whether this proves its effectiveness. To do so, energy poverty should be measured and monitored in an accurate way.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Hendriks, A. and Beaulieu, J.A. |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2022 14:14 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2022 14:14 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/123 |
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