Projects & Outputs
The global face of energy poverty
- Authors
Velasco-Herrejón, P., Breffní Lennon & Niall P. Dunphy
- Year
- 2023
- Category
- Book chapter
- Keywords
- energy poverty, global North, global South
- Full Citation
Velasco-Herrejón, P., Breffní Lennon & Niall P. Dunphy (2023) 'The global face of energy poverty' In: P. Velasco-Herrejón, B. Lennon & N. P. Dunphy (eds). Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South. London: Routledge.
- Link to Publication
- https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003408536
Abstract
For the first time in decades, the price pressures and economic upheaval primarily caused by the global energy crisis – sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and post-COVID pandemic supply chain stress – have led to a rise in the number of people without access to energy. The human consequences of energy poverty include a significant deterioration in physical health and mental well-being, along with premature death due to severe winter and summer conditions, unhealthy and/or restricted lifestyles, and social exclusion. There have been efforts to reduce energy poverty in both developing and developed countries over the past few decades. The need for electricity grid expansion has long been articulated in developing and developed contexts since the first half of the 20th century. More recently, global energy markets and their effects on energy availability and prices, as well as pressing environmental concerns, have induced a surge in research on energy deprivation, a condition that previously had little public recognition.