Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South

Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South expands our collective understanding of energy poverty and deepens our recognition of the phenomenon by engaging with the lived experiences of energy-poor households across different contexts.

Paola Velasco Herrejón is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) Research Fellow in the Department of Technology Systems, University of Oslo, Norway. Her research adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to examine socio-technical aspects of the global energy transition and decarbonisation, focusing on well-being, energy poverty, participation, power, and social justice. She was a co-investigator of the Energy Measures H2020 project that aims to better understand the lived experience of energy poverty and to support energy poor households across seven European countries.

Breffní Lennon is a Research Fellow at the Cleaner Production Promotion Unit, Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork, Ireland. He is an environmental geographer researching the energy geographies of climate change and the energy transition. His research focuses on emerging cultural ecologies of place, human-environment dimensions to energy, and the intersectional experiences of citizens in relation to environmental and energy justice. He is a co-Principal Investigator of the Energy Measures H2020 project and co-investigator on the ENCLUDE H2020 project.

Niall Dunphy is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Architecture and the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork, Ireland. Niall has over 20 years’ experience in multidisciplinary research; he leads the Cleaner Production Promotion unit, a research group working at the intersection of science and engineering with the social sciences and humanities.