The ENPOR Project (Energy Poverty in the Private Rented Sector in Europe) was a Horizon 2020 project which ran from 2020-2023.
Energy poverty – or vulnerability – is a critical factor for a fair energy transition. It remains at high levels in Europe due to increasing energy costs and slow progress on energy efficiency improvements. Alleviating its impact in the private rented sector (PRS) is a challenge because of the difficulty:
- to identify and quantify energy-poor households in the sector,
- to deliver energy efficiency measures to these households due to structural problems like information deficits, split incentives, and more.
ENPOR aimed to overcome both challenges – making energy poverty in the PRS visible (and as far as possible quantifiable) and testing energy efficiency support schemes to address it, identifying energy poor tenants (and respective homeowners) as well as understanding and addressing their needs.
Project Activities
The project focused on collecting expertise, analysing national policies, and formulating key recommendations to alleviate energy poverty challenges faced by tenants and landlords.
Specific outputs included:
- Energy Poverty Dashboard
- Split Incentive Tool
- Multiple publications
- Infographics, briefs and factsheets
- Pilot policies specifically designed to tackle energy poverty in the PRS
Project Partners
Lead Partner:
- Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy (IEECP), Netherlands
Project Partners:
- University of Manchester, UK
- Austrian Energy Agency (AEA), Austria
- Centre for Renewable Energy Resources and Saving (CRES), Greece
- Climate Alliance, Germany
- Društvo za oblikovanje održivog razvoja (DOOR), Croatia
- Tartu Regional Energy Agency, Estonia
- National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Italy
- Hogeschool Utrecht, Netherlands
- TEESlab at the University of Piraeus Research Centre, Greece
- Wuppertal Institut, Germany
- International Union of Property Owners (UIPI), Belgium
ENPOR Project Updates
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Ami Crowther and Manon Burbidge from the University of Manchester travelled to Modena, Italy in October 2023 to attend the POWER UP Consortium meeting and the Energy Cities Annual Conference, this year on the theme of “Grafting Cities”. POWER UP is a Horizon 2020 funded project seeking to support vulnerable people to participate in the…
Saska Petrova to present public lecture based on ENPOR project findings
Next month, on the 24th of October, Saska Petrova will deliver a high-level public keynote at the University of Humboldt, building on her experience from the ENPOR project, co-delivered with colleagues Manon Burbidge and Stefan Bouzarovski at the University of Manchester. She will elucidate the interactional politics of socio-environmental reproduction and energy precarity, by linking…
Stefan Bouzarovski discusses ENPOR project at EU Red Cross Annual Meeting keynote
Earlier this month, on the 9th of December, Stefan Bouzarovski delivered an online Keynote presentation at the Annual Meeting of the European Union Red Cross. The keynote focused on the need to include different socio-economic groups and forms of vulnerability in energy poverty policy development and evaluation, based on his engagement with Work Package 5…
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