Teaching Energy Poverty
Teaching Energy Poverty
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Original abstract
In many European countries, rising energy prices and depleting resources decrease the affordability of electric and heat energy for poor households (e.g. Scarpellini et al. 2015; Kolokotsa and Santamouris 2014)). The topic has been taken up in parts of the political arena in Europe following the UK’s example (Bouzarovski et al. 2012),especially in those countries where the affordability of energy has decreased drastically, such as in Greece (see Vatavali and Chatzikonstantinou in this volume) or Bulgaria, where skyrocketing energy prizes contributed to the fall of the government in 2013 (Parkinson, 2013). As Grosmann et al. (2014) and Haas (in this volume) show, the political debate in other countries such as Germany did not focus on the problems of households being overburdened by energy costs.