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This is our second and final episode on how energy poverty affects people not only financially but also through poor health. In the previous episode we looked into coping strategies and needs of people in energy poverty. In this current episode we want to discuss the different pathways we can take for making people’s lives at home healthier. This show is about how local governments can provide answers and concrete help, especially to those that are already in fragile or complicated situations. How can they be supportive in urgency situations while creating long-term conditions that bring wellbeing?

We speak about urban strategies with two very committed ladies who are part of WELLBASED: Victoria Pellicer from Valencia in Spain (Valencia Clima i Energia) and Agnes Losonci from the district administration of Obuda-Bekasmegyer, a district in Hungary’s capital Budapest. Valencia and Obuda are two pretty different places and still: energy poverty is an issue. Victoria and Agnes tell me what type of advice and measures works best and how their cities’ strategies in the field have evolved over time. In the WELLBASED project, Valencia and Obuda were pare of a group of 6 pilots that made the connection between public health and access to affordable energy.

Dr. Lucie Middlemiss and Beverly Searle from the University of Leeds, research partner in the project, have been invited to “City Stories”, the podcast by Energy Cities. Lucie and Beverley have been leading the qualitative data collection in the WELLBASED project, looking at how people in energy poverty felt in their homes, how they dealt with limited access to energy and how this impacted their health and wellbeing. In our conversation Lucie and Beverley share their invaluable insights from over 150 qualitative interviews with people across six cities. We discuss the fragile health condition of people in energy poverty and try to untangle the many complex reasons for it.

Download all event materials and watch the recording below:

• 📥Event agenda
• 📥Welcome and introduction by Gabor BALÁS, Managing Director, MUTK
• 📥Existing and alternative financial models – Introduction of the WELLBASED study and collected best practices
  Andras VARRO, Analyst, MUTK
  
• 📥The Urban Financial Metabolism (UFM) of energy poverty – Analysis of the financial mechanisms between energy poverty and municipal spending
  Joram Nauta, Orchestrator, Department for Strategic Business Analysis, TNO
• 📥Social Impact Bonds – New instruments to finance energy poverty interventions
  Rebeca LUCAS, Senior R&D&I Consultant and Social Science Researcher, KVELOCE
  

Download all event materials and watch the recording below:

• 📥Event agenda
• 📥Webinar introduction by Miriam Eisermann, Communications & Eu Policy, Energy Cities
• 📥Energy poverty in Europe: a mastered chaos?
  Joao Pedro Gouveia, Senior Researcher, NOVA University Lisbon/EPAH
• 📥Incorporating health in urban (energy) policies
  Elena Rocher, Health Program Officer at Las Naves
• 📥Energy poverty and underlying health issues: initial insights from winter research in 2022/2023
  Merel Stevens, Junior researcher at Erasmus Medical School
• Challenges and coping strategies in committed cities in the North and South of Europe
  Spain:
  • 📥Victoria Pellicer-Sifres, Energy Officer at Las Naves
  • 📥Marta Garcia-Paris, Energy Consultant at Ecoserveis
  Latvia
  • 📥Dr. Dina Bite, Head of Department at Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Latvia University