Energy poverty

Power companies seek to curry favor with certain political figures, in order to establish a firm agenda of contacts and be able to influence decision-making.

In the report, the full names of the thirteen state lawyers currently working at Spain's three main energy companies are listed: nine at Iberdrola, three at Naturgy, and one at Endesa.

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Many studies point at stress as a risk factor for developing a mental disorder. 
Opinion

We may not know it yet, but game changer concepts such as ‘Demand Response’ and ‘Flexibility’ could be the key to decrease the amount of energy European citizens consume and optimize the resources we do have available.

Opinion
Marta García, CEO of Ecoservices.

We’ve interviewed the CEO of Ecoserveis on how the global crisis is affecting people living in a situation of energy poverty.

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EAPN and EPSU call for making the right to Affordable, Clean Energy for all a reality across Europe.

Opinion
NASA space launch in 2020.

We analyze the environmental and social impact of the space race with the Debt Observatory in Globalization (ODG).

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15% of Europeans live in housing with a leaking roof, damp walls or floors.

The energy poverty campaigner and member of Friends of the Earth Europe talks about energy precariousness in Europe and the effects of Covid-19 in this field.

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The COVID-19 crisis is hitting European consumers in the pocket, causing rising unemployment and falling income for those who have kept their jobs. Spending more time at home as a result of lockdown measures could make matters worse for energy bills.

Opinion
The project aims to provide collective advice, thermal comfort measures in homes, meetings to learn to reduce energy waste and the creation of mutual support groups.

13 European organisations are behind the “EmpowerMed” project to collectively build the right to energy.

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We will never deny children access to school or a doctor, even if their families cannot afford it. Instead, we live in a system that forces the families of this children to assume unaffordable supply bills.

Opinion

To end energy injustice we need to guarantee rights, because vulnerability comes hand-in-hand with difficulties to access housing, and access to other basic services and utilities such as electricity, gas, running water, telephone services or the internet.

Opinion
Marta Segú is the director of Probitas Foundation.

The director of the Probitas Foundation explains that the project of renewable energies in different hospitals has allowed to provide quality healthcare to vulnerable countries as Sierra Leona and Angola.

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