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Scale of energy poverty in Poland on the basis of survey results in gminas
Aleksandra Stępniak
Gdańsk, 18th June 2015
Survey
IV – VI 2014 2479 gminas (local authorities)
Request for public information + additional questionnaires
data from social welfare centres data from gminas data on the basis on registered requests
for housing and energy benefit
Surveys which were sent back
35% gminas answered (25-53% across regions)
Many questions without answeror with informationabout no data
Recognising the problem
average: 9,24% (4-20%) assuming, that no answer from 65%
gminas means lack of knowledge only 2,8% gminas has diagnosis of the problem
criterion– 20%-incomelevel assignedfor energetic goals
Households in the area of energy poverty
~20% (9,7-32,0%) But the result is intuitive – even gminas said
that they had not had this problem recognized Poor families pay for energy bills and resign
from other expenditures
these are 2.6 mln people - in gminas which answered for the survey
Taking into account the size of the sample (35%) – the problem concerns 7,4 mln people in Poland
Households which are endangered of energy poverty
Tools addresing for the problem recommended by gminas
„symptomatic support” - system of direct payments
Amortization of debts Housing and energy benefit, social
assistance Improving the energy efficiency in
buildings where people with low income live (without consequence in activities)
Energy benefit – only 7% citizens in the scale of country
Conclusions
We need: to define the borders – official definition of the
energy poverty to diagnose the problem – describing and
elimination the reasons of ignorance in that topic, motivation of gminas to cataloguing the problem
to implement activities for the stable improvement of the people suffer from energy poverty
to improve the awareness/information and educational campaigns for gminas and energy users
Motivation of the energy companies for the preventive activities
Thank you for attention
Aleksandra Stę[email protected]
Instytut na rzecz Ekorozwojuul. Nabielaka 15 lok. 1
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