This email was sent to our email list in January 2026 to announce our change of name and provide an explanation.
Dear FPRN research community,
We are writing to let you know some exciting news for the start of 2026. From now on the Fuel Poverty Research Network will have a new name: the Energy Poverty Research Network.
We created FPRN in 2016 with the aim of helping to bring together and support the research community working on myriad themes and contexts related to fuel poverty in the broadest sense. Our mission remains the same, but we’ve felt for a little while now that the name no longer captures the international reach and conceptual diversity of the field. The word ‘fuel’ reflects our UK-based roots, but not the rich array of research-related activities taking part across the world and the growing interest in all aspects of energy and its intersection with societal challenges.
We hope you’ll agree that our new name, the EPRN, reflects our own development and that of the field as a whole. We realise we could hold a symposium on our use of ‘poverty’, ‘research’, and even ‘network’, but we feel that continuity is important. EPRN reflects our development whilst retaining the identity we have built up over a decade.
Over the next few months you’ll see changes on our website (now www.energypovertyresearch.net), visual identity, email lists, researcher directory, and social media presence. Some of this will happen nice and smoothly, some of it less so – so please bear with us.
We look forward to continuing to work with you all, and to welcoming you to our webinar tomorrow, 29th January, ‘The politics of energy poverty in the global South’, our first event as the Energy Poverty Research Network.
Best wishes
Graeme Sherriff, Chair of EPRN
Trivess Moore, Co-chair of EPRN
On behalf of the EPRN committee