Hélène Subrémon
With the collaboration of Benoîte Decup-Pannier and Jerôme Huguet
Ambitious energy policies will be needed to achieve climate and energy targets (in particular, Factor 4 by 2050 and the Grenelle targets).
However, there is one obstacle to the development of ambitious energy policies: minimizing the impact on low-income households and those in energy poverty.
This requires knowledge and understanding of the situations, challenges, and implications for these households. However, the global challenges on which current policies are based do not allow for this. They most often establish categories that do not take into account the diversity of situations encountered by households.
We therefore need to change our perspective in order to understand the challenges of energy transition policies from the point of view of their recipients (a "bottom-up" approach), i.e., to "regionalize" the challenges and also the objectives of reducing energy consumption.
To this end, the project proposes to study low-income households in the Ile-de-France region, particularly in the department of Seine-et-Marne, and their energy use, with a twofold objective: scientific and operational for policy-making. This project will seek to understand how to design an ambitious regional/local energy policy that does not have a negative impact on those in energy poverty.
Keywords:
Energy transition, low-income households, Seine-et-Marne, vulnerabilities, energy poverty
Period
s:
July 25, 2012 to July 25, 2015 (MOVIDA funding)
December 16, 2011 to December 31, 2015 (PICRI funding)