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The Chair in Energy and Poverty is a university centre with a vocation to make a contribution to society through its meeting and research activities. This contribution is based on the strictest respect for the plurality of opinions of its researchers and professors.

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European and US Approaches to Energy Poverty: Classifying and Evaluating Design Strategies, 2025.

In and beyond the home: A literature review on the spatial relationality of energy poverty, 2025.

Bridging the Energy Poverty Gap: Evaluating the Impact of Shallow Renovations and Micro-Efficiency in Spain, 2025.

Energy Poverty and Vulnerability Trends in Southern and Western Europe during Crisis Years, 2025.

Toward an enhanced policy and action framework to address energy poverty in the Iberian Peninsula: An exploratory analysis, 2025.

Appearance at the Senate Ecological Transition Commission, Efraim Centeno, 2025.

Social Entrepreneurship as a Network Bridge to Tackle Energy Poverty, Chapter in the book "Energy Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Innovation and Financing", 2025.

The 2022 energy and inflationary crises: Data, experiences and opinions of Spanish energy vulnerable households, 2024.

A Just Energy Transition is Not Just a Transition: Framing energy justice for a quantitative assessment (2024)

The Role of Technologies in Dealing with Energy Poverty Issues (2024)

Comillas TV: Presentation of the Report on Energy Poverty Indicators in Spain, 2023.

Report on Indicators of Energy Poverty in Spain, 2023 (22/10/2024)

EPAH extended course. Module 1 - How to diagnose energy poverty. Energy Poverty Indicators in Spain Datasets, methods and results (2024).

Bulletin Nº 32 - Spanish Red Cross, Energy Poverty (2024).

10thAnniversary "Mesa Acceso Universal a la Energía. MAUE. 5/06/2024

Comparative analysis of energy poverty definition and measurement in Portugal and Spain (2023)

Exploring Energy Poverty in Urban and Rural Contexts in the Era of Climate Change: A Comparative Analysis of European Countries and Israel (2024).

Households' energy burden during the 2022 crisis: a policy impact assessment in a Southern European country. Roberto Barrella (2024)

Unpacking the energy crisis impact with a multidimensional vulnerability index: A granular analysis of the Spanish case , Roberto Barrella, Laura Blas (2024).

Assessing the impact of shallow renovation on energy poverty: a primary data study. Roberto Barrella, Jose Carlos Romero, Almudena Laguillo, Ester Sevilla, 2023.

Bridging disconnections: narratives of collective social entrepreneurs on the energy poverty network. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. Maria José Manjón, Amparo Merino, Iain Cairns, 2023.

The Region of Murcia, at the head of the number of households in severe energy poverty in all of Spain | Cadena SER

Informe de indicadores de Pobreza Energética en España, 2022.

Papeles de Energía, No. 21 (June 2023). Maria Elena Escribano, Roberto Barrella, Maria José Manjón (06/2023).

Evaluating the impact of express refurbishment on fuel poverty: analysis of real cases | IIT - Comillas - Fundación Naturgy . (27/06/2023)

Evaluating the impact of energy efficiency strategies on households' energy affordability: A Spanish case study . (27/06/2023)

What saves more: three days of teleworking or using an electric car? The best measures to lower your energy bill | Climate and Environment | EL PAÍS. (12/02/2023)

Energy poverty report for Save The Children, Roberto Barrella, (02/02/2023)

More households are going cold for fear of the electricity bill. José Carlos Romero in "CincoDías, El País Economía". (26/01/2023)

"El miedo a la factura: España duplica la media europea de personas que no pueden mantener su hogar caliente" Roberto Barrella y José Carlos Romero en RTVE (26/01/2023).

"Study of the theoretical thermal expenditure in cooling for Spanish homes. Development of a model to maintain good comfort in summer". (7/12/2022)

"Severe energy poverty has worsened extraordinarily: 2 million households cannot heat their homes". José Carlos Romero and Roberto Barrella for the Spanish newspaper "El Mundo" (7/12/2022).

Paper "Proposing a novel Minimum Income Standard approach to energy poverty assessment: a European case study", by Roberto Barrella, José Carlos Romero and Lucía Mariño (22/11/2022).

Report on Indicators of Energy Poverty in Spain 2021 (15/11/2022)

Participation of Roberto Barrella in the "III Institutional Congress on Sustainability - Multidimensional Perspectives for the Energy Transition in Colombia" (minute 11) (10/11/2022)

"Energy Poverty National Indicators: Insights for a more effective measuring", Report of the European Commission with the collaboration of José Carlos Romero and Roberto Barrella.

"Update of a model for calculating electricity expenditure of Spanish households to the new tariff structure and scenario analysis", Final Degree Project by Marta Blázquez Cabezas.

"Addressing energy poverty in an integrated way. An interdisciplinary characterisation of Spanish vulnerable households and proposal for implementing feasible technical and policy solutions", doctoral thesis by Roberto Barrella.

Roberto Barrella on COPE: "Households in a situation of energy poverty in Spain are doubling" (20/07/2022)

Roberto Barrella, on Onda Cero's La brújula de la economía, on the situation of energy poverty in 2021/2022 (minute 17) (15/07/2022)

Doctoral thesis defence by Roberto Barrella: "Addressing energy poverty in an integrated way. An interdisciplinary characterisation of Spanish vulnerable households and proposal for implementing feasible technical and policy solutions" (05/07/2022)

Contribution to the chapter on experts' perspective of the EPAH full revision of energy poverty indicators (02/06/2022)

VIII Session of the Interdisciplinary Seminar. Chair on Energy and Poverty (in person and online): How energy communities contribute to fight against energy poverty (25/05/2022)

Article "The controversy of Italy's 'operation thermostat': "27º C to work is too hot, bordering on unhealthy" in NIUS (30/04/2022)

Interview with "Efraím Centeno and José Carlos Romero. Cátedra de Energía y Pobreza"- Razón y Fe (29/04/2022)

Paper "Business as not usual: A systematic literature review of social entrepreneurship, social innovation, and energy poverty to accelerate the just energy transition" (04/2022)

Article "What effect does turning down the heating thermostat by one degree have on gas consumption?" in The Conversation (5/04/2022)

Article "Fuel poverty and COVID-19" in Responsible Journal (2/03/2022)

Handbook "Moving forward on the right to energy in the EU. Engagement toolkit" (02/2022)

Article "Confinement worsened fuel poverty but the social shield prevented a greater evil" in The Conversation (3/02/2022)

Article "Pandemic and rising electricity prices multiply fuel poverty" in El Salto (3/02/2022)

Article "Pandemic and energy poverty" in Alfa y Omega (3/02/2022)

José Carlos Romero on Las mañanas de RNE (minute 14) (2/02/2022)

Interview on the report "Indicadores de pobreza energética en España 2020" on 24h de TVE (27/01/2022)

Interview on the report "Indicadores de pobreza energética en España 2020" on Capital Radio (27/01/2022)

Interview on the report "Indicadores de pobreza energética en España 2020" on COPE (26/01/2022)

Presentation "Indicadores de pobreza energética en España 2020. Beyond the official indices (online)" (26/01/2022)

Report on Energy Poverty Indicators in Spain 2020 (26/01/2022)

Article "A social department in electricity companies to fight energy poverty" (12/2021)

Article "2021 energy price crisis impacts on energy poverty in Spain" (12/2021)

Paper "The dark side of energy poverty: Who is underconsuming in Spain and why?" (12/2021)

VII Session of the Interdisciplinary Seminar. Chair in Energy and Poverty (in person and online). Current situation and prospects for the evolution of energy poverty in Spain (23/11/2021)

Manual "A toolkit for a just transition with the people" (11/2021)

Paper "Energy poverty in pandemic times: fine-tuning emergency measures for better future responses to extreme events in Spain" (11/2021)

Talk "What can engineers do to tackle energy poverty? -Pedro Juan de Lastanosa Institute (UC3M) (28/10/2021)

Newspaper article "Solar panels to tackle energy poverty - Responsible consumption" - Alfa y Omega, Nº 1226, p. 13 (09/09/2021)

Master's Thesis "Analysis of the technical-economic feasibility of the aerothermal heat pump powered by natural gas for block dwellings as an active measure against fuel poverty". (30/08/2021)

Paper "Tackling energy poverty through social intrapreneurship in large-scale energy companies" (17/08/2021)

Paper "Does cash money solve energy poverty? Assessing the impact of household heating allowances in Spain" (07/08/2021)

"Proposal to improve the management of the application and granting of the social bonus and the coordination between the agents involved, as a contribution to the development of the National Strategy against Energy Poverty" (06/2021)

Documentation of the Advisory Board Meeting (22/06/2021)

Master's Thesis "Characterisation of hidden energy poverty based on theoretical energy expenditure" (14/06/2021)

Podcast of "Ingeniería Con Propósito" in 'Talento ICAI': Double interview on energy poverty and the Chair in Energy and Poverty (3/06/2021)

Seminar "A new electricity bill on 1 June" (11/05/2021)

Presentation "The Spanish National Strategy against Energy Poverty 2019-2024: Policy and research perspectives" (30/04/2021)

VI Interdisciplinary Seminar of the Chair on Energy and Poverty (Webinar). The Minimum Vital Supply (SMV): a crucial tool in the fight against energy poverty (07/04/2021)

Final Degree Thesis "Energy communities as a possible solution to energy poverty in rural Spain" (04/2021)

Paper "Cooling Degree Models and Future Energy Demand in the Residential Sector. A Seven-Country Case Study" (09/03/2021)

Making Decarbonisation Fair - Panel 6: Transitions to a just and low-carbon future (04/03/2021)

Making Decarbonisation Fair - Panel 3: Retrofit as a tool for decarbonisation and poverty alleviation. (03/03/2021)

Impact of energy refurbishment strategies on domestic energy services affordability: the Spanish case. (02/2021)

Tackling energy poverty through social entrepreneurship in large companies. (02/2021)

National Strategy against Energy Poverty 2019-2024 in Spain. EP Pedia, ENGAGER COST Action (29/01/2021)

Report of Activities of the Chair in Energy and Poverty 2018/2020 (12/2020)

Development of a model for calculating theoretical electricity expenditure in Spanish households (11/2020)

V Interdisciplinary Seminar of the Chair in Energy and Poverty (Webinar). Science and Innovation Week. Innovating in Social Sciences from the reality of the most vulnerable. Crossroads of Knowledge and Practices© (05/10/2020)

Report of activities to the Advisory Council (20/10/2020)

European Energy Poverty. Policy Brief No. 4: New narratives and actors for citizen-led energy poverty dialogues (09/2020)

Master's Thesis "Baseline study for the analysis of the impact on the population vulnerable to energy poverty of different scenarios of thermal demand in the residential sector in 2030 and 2050". (2/09/2020)

Master's Thesis "Analysis of the technical-economic feasibility of the electrically driven aerothermal heat pump for block dwellings as an active measure against fuel poverty". (22/06/2020)

Towards an inclusive energy transition in the European Union: Confronting energy poverty amidst a global crisis. Third pan-EU energy poverty report of the EU Energy Poverty Observatory (06/2020)

Activity Report to the Advisory Council and the Executive Committee (18/06/2020)

Emergency Measures to Protect Energy Consumers during the Covid-19 Pandemic (18/06/2020)

Working paper "Emergency Measures to Protect Energy Consumers During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Global Review and Critical Analysis" (29/05/2020)

Paper "Feasibility Study of a Centralised Electrically Driven Air Source Heat Pump Water Heater to Face Energy Poverty in Block Dwellings in Madrid (Spain)" (28/05/2020)

Fuel poverty in the context of the COVID-19 emergency (28/05/2020)

Energy Poverty will increase with the Covid-19 crisis (22/05/2020)

IV Interdisciplinary Seminar of the Chair in Energy and Poverty (Webinar). Present and future of energy vulnerability situations in Spain in the context of the COVID-19 emergency (06/05/2020)

The coronavirus crisis will increase energy poverty figures: The time has come for the right to energy! (Call for action, ENGAGER) (06/05/2020)

Measures to tackle the Covid-19 outbreak impact on energy poverty (22/04/2020)

Report of activities of the Chair to the Advisory Council (10/03/2020)

Paper "Energy poverty in Spain: a legal and economic approach to its causes and causers" (24/02/2020)

Acting against energy poverty without reductionism (23/02/2020)

Characterisation of energy behaviour in a sample of Spanish households (18/02/2020)

3rd Interdisciplinary Seminar of the Chair in Energy and Poverty. Innovative proposals for the fight against energy poverty (16/01/2020)

Presentation of the working paper "Towards a hidden energy poverty indicator for Spanish households" - SSPCR 2019 (12/12/2019)

Fuel poverty and the energy market (12/12/2019)

Energy Poverty - Aula de Solidaridad (28/11/2019)

Spain Report 2019. Chapter 3. Energy poverty in Spain (19/11/2019)

A universal right to energy? (6/11/2019)

Papeles de Energía, Energy Poverty (Extraordinary issue) October - 2019 (23/10/2019)

Ongoing and planned activities of the Chair. Course 2019-2020 (08/10/2019)

Energy Poverty. Who is left behind by energy transition? (24/09/2019)

Master's Thesis "Analysis and proposals for new indicators of energy poverty" (28/08/2019)

Policies and measures against energy poverty in the European policy framework (17/06/2019)

Paper "Who should pay to support renewable electricity? Exploring regressive impacts, energy poverty and tariff equity" (11/06/2019)

Presentation of the working paper "Towards a hidden energy poverty indicator for Spanish households". JOSITE'19 (31/05/2019)

Presentation of the National Strategy against Energy Poverty 2019-2024 (21/05/2019)

Activity of the Chair, February 2018 - February 2019 (04/03/2019)

Contribution to the previous public consultation for the elaboration of the National Strategy against fuel poverty (17/01/2019)

Submission of the contribution to the National Strategy to Combat Fuel Poverty (20/12/2018)

Structural measures to address the required expenditure (17/12/2018)

The Spanish experience in distributed databases (DLT) and possible use cases and applications for fuel poverty (26/11/2018)