EPRN bulletin – 9th February 2026

Discussion exploring how reducing energy prices is only one part of addressing energy poverty during summer in Australia.

This conference paper explores the rural electrification program in Morocco which resulted in rate of access to electricity rising from 18% in 1995 to 99.8% in 2022.

This paper presents analysis from Eurostat data to examine energy poverty’s social, income, and housing quality components for EU member states.

This report explores the landscape of existing energy poverty metrics and proposes a new conceptual framework which applies three layers (diagnostic; sensitivity and exposure; and energy system reliability performance). A number of recommendations for policy makers and researchers are proposed based upon this analysis.

This paper provides empirical evidence on the causal relationship between host language proficiency and energy poverty among immigrants in Australia. The results show that proficiency in the host language reduces the likelihood of experiencing multidimensional energy poverty by approximately 18.8 percentage points.