IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/ecanpo/v86y2025icp438-460.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Mitigating energy poverty in the European union welfare states through renewable energy and technological innovation

Author

Listed:
  • Mara, Eugenia Ramona

Abstract

This research analyzes the main drivers of energy poverty in European Union countries between 2003 and 2022. In the last few years, energy poverty has continued to rise, exacerbated by recent factors such as the war between Russia and Ukraine and inflation. Based on fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS), energy prices and import dependence are confirmed to be significant factors contributing to the expansion of energy poverty. This study also provides an individualized perspective on the determinants of energy poverty in each EU welfare state model, thus contributing to the implementation of tailored solutions. The solution for counteracting this negative phenomenon with multiple social implications can be founded on developing renewable energy sources and technological innovation. The governments of EU countries must prioritize the financing of technological innovation to increase green energy as representing a sustainable path for reducing energy poverty in the long term.

Suggested Citation

  • Mara, Eugenia Ramona, 2025. "Mitigating energy poverty in the European union welfare states through renewable energy and technological innovation," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 438-460.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecanpo:v:86:y:2025:i:c:p:438-460
    DOI: 10.1016/j.eap.2025.03.026
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0313592625000980
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.eap.2025.03.026?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Energy poverty; Technological innovation; Renewable energy; Welfare energy;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:ecanpo:v:86:y:2025:i:c:p:438-460. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/economic-analysis-and-policy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.