The EPRN email bulletin is a semi-regular email highlighting a handpicked selection of recently published research and other knowledge outputs in the area of energy poverty from around the world. The aim is to share this emerging knowledge more widely and to help generate discussion across the network.
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Upcoming conference: Energy poverty research: looking back, moving forward
Join us in Manchester (UK), Sydney (Australia) or online on the 27th and 28th of October 2026 for our conference marking ten years since our first network meeting. Whether you are researching energy poverty or housing, developing policy, or working directly with vulnerable people, this is an opportunity to meet others, share ideas and stories, and engage with the latest developments. For more information and to register to attend: https://www.energypovertyresearch.net/events/event/conference2026/
Energy Consumers Australia (2026)
Other Open Access
The Consumer Energy Report Card is a nationally representative survey (Australia) conducted six-monthly to understand Australian energy consumers’ priorities, needs, attitudes towards and engagement with the energy system. In addition to a report the anonymised data is available to download.
Sarah Champagne; Euan Phimister; Aravinda Meera Guntupalli (2026)
Academic Paper Open Access
Using Scotland as a case study, this paper captures multidimensional poverty across adulthood and study the associations with health. The results support the reintroduction of non-means-tested winter heating benefits for older adults in Scotland.
NEA (2026)
Report Open Access
National Energy Action has published a new report drawing on evidence from their Lived Experience Library, alongside client data and case studies, to explore how fuel poverty is experienced during the summer months. It provides a clear and consistent picture that summer does not offer respite for those households in fuel poverty.
Constantine Spandagos (2026)
Academic Paper Open Access
This article identifies four mechanisms potentially linking data center expansion to energy poverty risks and increase wider risks for communities in terms of infrastructure stress.
Bryony Parrish; Yekatherina Bobrova; Uttara Narayan; Nicholas Banks (2026)
Academic Paper Open Access
This paper explores tensions around demand responses as a way to reduce fuel poverty and reveals that achieving justice requires ensuring households do not feel compelled to participate in demand response to alleviate energy poverty.
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