Energy Poverty Conference 2024

This conference will bring together academics and policymakers to discuss the latest findings on energy poverty research carried out by the EPRC-Research Programme on Energy Poverty at the ESRI, the University of Leeds, and the University College Cork. The conference will address measuring energy poverty, policies to target vulnerable households, and how they experience this condition.

Event Programme

9.00

Registraion

9.30

Welcome Address

Alan Barret (CEO ESRI) 

Lucie Middlemiss (University of Leeds, UK)

9.45

Keynote Speaker: Reflections on recent energy poverty research in the UK and beyond.

Lucie Middlemiss (University of Leeds, UK)

10.15

Q&A

Session 1: Measurement and vulnerable groups in Ireland

 Chair: Nessa Winston (UCD)

 

10.25

Measurement of energy poverty in Ireland

Andrés Estévez (ESRI)

10.45

Measurement and targeting energy poverty from an international perspective

Miguel Tovar (ESRI)

11.05

Q&A

11.15

Coffee Break

Session 2: Other aspects of energy poverty

 Chair: Nessa Winston (UCD)

11.30

Energy Poverty experienced by the elderly population

Aileen O'Reilly (ALONE)

Paul Redmond (ESRI)

11.50

Reframing Energy Poverty

Karla Santos (UCC)

12.10

Q&A

12.20

Panel discussion

  • Chair - Miguel Tovar (ESRI)
  • Karen Trant (Commission for Regulation of Utilities, Director of Customer Policy & Protection)
  • Justina Corcoran (DECC, Head of Retail Energy Policy and Regulation)
  • Simon Shevlin (DSP, Principal Officer)
  • Lucie Middlemiss (Professor, University of Leeds, UK)
  • Gerry Reilly (CSO, Head of Income, Consumption and Wealth Division)
  • Deirdre Mahony (CSO, Climate, Environment, Enterprise and Sustainability Directorate)

12.50

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