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Energy poverty can mean you spend less on luxuries – or put your life at risk

By Lala Rukh, Doctoral Researcher in Energy, University of Galway
If you are in energy poverty (or fuel poverty, as it is sometimes called), you or your household cannot afford to spend enough on the energy you need to cook, heat or light your home.

In Ireland, where I live now, energy poverty has a technical definition: if your household has to spend more than 10% of its income on energy, you are living in energy poverty. This is fairly typical as far as definitions go globally. Although there is no…The Conversation


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