A cure-all for energy poverty? Thinking critically about energy advice

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL ISSUES

Critical Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI:10.1177/02610183231219185

N. Simcock, Stefan Bouzarovski

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Abstract

Dramatic increases in global energy prices in 2022 have sharpened focus on the suffering experienced by people living in energy poverty – a situation where they are unable to afford the energy required to meet their basic needs. In many countries, providing energy advice to householders is part of a wider strategy to assist those who are experiencing such hardship. However, little research scrutinises whether and how energy advice can be useful in reducing vulnerability to energy poverty. It is this research gap we address here. Drawing on an extensive qualitative dataset, we find that efforts to provide tailored, in-person advice can help to partially ameliorate energy poverty, but its impacts are limited by structural factors that are beyond the immediate influence of advisors or individual citizens. Energy advice should be seen as a supplement to, not a replacement for, more ambitious and transformative political action that addresses the structural and institutional drivers of inequality.

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能源贫困的万灵药？批判性地思考能源建议

2022 年全球能源价格大幅上涨，使人们更加关注生活在能源贫困中的人们所遭受的苦难--他们无力负担满足基本需求所需的能源。在许多国家，向住户提供能源建议是帮助这些困难人群的更广泛战略的一部分。然而，很少有研究仔细探讨能源建议是否以及如何有助于减少能源贫困。我们在此探讨的正是这一研究空白。利用广泛的定性数据集，我们发现，提供量身定制的面对面建议有助于部分缓解能源贫困，但其影响受到结构性因素的限制，而这些因素超出了顾问或公民个人的直接影响范围。能源建议应被视为一种补充，而不是取代更雄心勃勃、更具变革性的政治行动，以解决造成不平等的结构性和制度性因素。

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期刊介绍： Critical Social Policy provides a forum for advocacy, analysis and debate on social policy issues. We publish critical perspectives which: ·acknowledge and reflect upon differences in political, economic, social and cultural power and upon the diversity of cultures and movements shaping social policy; ·re-think conventional approaches to securing rights, meeting needs and challenging inequalities and injustices; ·include perspectives, analyses and concerns of people and groups whose voices are unheard or underrepresented in policy-making; ·reflect lived experiences of users of existing benefits and services;