Fuel Poverty Conference
This conference will bring together academics and policymakers to discuss the role of research in designing policies to tackle fuel poverty.
It will also discuss the challenges of measuring fuel poverty and strategies to improve policies aimed at tackling it.
Event programme
Event programme
10:00
Welcome Address
Alan Barrett (ESRI, Director)
Session 1: Research and data
Chair: Muireann Lynch (ESRI)
10:20
Fuel poverty research in the Energy Poverty Action Plan (Miguel Tovar, ESRI)
Miguel Tovar (ESRI)
10:40
Matching the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) and Building Energy Ratings (BER)
Gerry Brady (CSO)
Q&A
11:10
Coffee break
Session 2: Measurement and targeting
Chair: Muireann Lynch (ESRI)
11:25
Challenges with measuring fuel poverty
Javier Palencia (UNED, Spain)
11:45
Targeting challenges
Arya Pillai (Central Bank of Ireland, previously ESRI)
Q&A
12:00
Panel discussion
Representatives from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, CRU, SEAI, and the Department of Social Protection.
12:25
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