European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits

摘要: Abstract Energy poverty, a condition whereby people cannot secure adequate home energy services, is gaining prominence in public discourse and on political policy agendas. As its measurement operationalised, metrical developments are being socially shaped. A European Union mandate for biennial reporting poverty presents an opportunity to institutionalise new metrics thus privilege certain measurements as standards. While combining indicators at multiple scales desirable measure multi-dimensional aspects, it entails challenges such database availability, coverage limited disaggregated resolution. This article converges scholarship – which problematises the act of apprehends socio-political techno-economic particulars. Scholarship suggests that any basket risks silencing significant but hard or unwarrantedly privileging others. State-of-the-art calls represent contextualised use issues, including access quality, expenditure relation income, built environment related aspects thermal comfort levels, while retaining simplicity comparability traction. We frame metrology shaped varied, phenomenon within historically bureaucratic publicly distant sectors, assess opportunities must be negotiated. To generate actionable knowledge, we propose analytical framework with five dimensions metrology, illustrate using multi-scalar cases from three countries. Dimensions include historical trajectories, data flattening, identification, representation uptake. argue informed by politics scale order emerging metrics, safeguarding against their co-optation purposes other than deep rapid alleviation poverty. ‘dimensioned’ understanding can provide leverage push decisive action address structural underpinnings domestic deprivation.