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REACH built on the success of a previous IEE project, ACHIEVE.
Project REACH had two overall objectives: (i) to empower energy-poor
households to take actions to save energy and change their habits; and
(ii) to establish energy poverty as an issue that demands tailor-made policies and measures at local, national and EU level. The specific aims of the
project were:
• To compile data and analyse energy poverty situations in four countries in order to form definition(s) of energy poverty and policy
recommendations.
• To engage and empower local actors to tackle energy poverty.
• To empower energy-poor households to reduce their energy and
water use and to provide some of them with further support for
tackling their problems.
• To engage decision-makers in tackling energy poverty as an issue
that demands structural tailor-made solutions, to provide them
with recommendations for addressing the problem and to create
a platform for concerted formulation of structural solutions at the
national and EU level.
Framing the Energy Challenge
Energy poverty in Slovenia is becoming an increasing problem as rising energy prices surpass the rise of incomes of the population. Thus,
the expenditure on energy for households in the first income quintile has risen sharply in the recent couple of years, representing 17% of
all available resources of individual households in 2010 (in 2000, this
share was 13%). In the context of EU policies, the issue of energy poverty is becoming more and more visible, but there is no single definition
of who is energy poor. Despite the lack of definition, energy poverty is
being tackled by some policies: governmental analysis of energy poverty
from 2010 highlights energy poverty as a rising issue, and the National
Energy Action Plan 2020 and the operative programme 2014–2020 list
energy retrofit of energy-poor households as an objective. Hence, some
measures for addressing energy poverty already exist in Slovenia: the
national programme for visiting energy-poor households by advisers of
the national energy efficiency advising network, support for energy retrofits of energy-poor households (100% subsidy), and support for the
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REACH built on the success of a previous IEE project, ACHIEVE.
Project REACH had two overall objectives: (i) to empower energy-poor
households to take actions to save energy and change their habits; and
(ii) to establish energy poverty as an issue that demands tailor-made policies and measures at local, national and EU level. The specific aims of the
project were:
• To compile data and analyse energy poverty situations in four countries in order to form definition(s) of energy poverty and policy
recommendations.
• To engage and empower local actors to tackle energy poverty.
• To empower energy-poor households to reduce their energy and
water use and to provide some of them with further support for
tackling their problems.
• To engage decision-makers in tackling energy poverty as an issue
that demands structural tailor-made solutions, to provide them
with recommendations for addressing the problem and to create
a platform for concerted formulation of structural solutions at the
national and EU level.
Framing the Energy Challenge
Energy poverty in Slovenia is becoming an increasing problem as rising energy prices surpass the rise of incomes of the population. Thus,
the expenditure on energy for households in the first income quintile has risen sharply in the recent couple of years, representing 17% of
all available resources of individual households in 2010 (in 2000, this
share was 13%). In the context of EU policies, the issue of energy poverty is becoming more and more visible, but there is no single definition
of who is energy poor. Despite the lack of definition, energy poverty is
being tackled by some policies: governmental analysis of energy poverty
from 2010 highlights energy poverty as a rising issue, and the National
Energy Action Plan 2020 and the operative programme 2014–2020 list
energy retrofit of energy-poor households as an objective. Hence, some
measures for addressing energy poverty already exist in Slovenia: the
national programme for visiting energy-poor households by advisers of
the national energy efficiency advising network, support for energy retrofits of energy-poor households (100% subsidy), and support for the