Practical Implementation Guide: Energy Poverty

The Practical Implementation Guide on Energy Poverty highlights the critical need to ensure equitable access to affordable, reliable, and safe energy as cities transition to climate-neutral systems. It provides practical strategies for identifying and addressing energy poverty, drawing lessons from European city case studies and peer exchanges. Key recommendations emphasise integrated social, energy, and climate strategies, large-scale retrofits, renewable heating, long-term funding, strengthened public-private partnerships, and inclusive community engagement to protect vulnerable groups and enable a just, socially resilient energy transition.