Sources of Energy Poverty: A Factor Analysis Approach for Spain

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Title: Sources of Energy Poverty: A Factor Analysis Approach for Spain
Authors: Taltavull de La Paz, Paloma | Juárez Tárraga, Francisco | Su, Zhenyu | Monllor, Paloma
Research Group/s: Economía de la Vivienda y Sector Inmobiliario (ECOVISI)
Center, Department or Service: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado
Keywords: Household conditions survey | Housing tenancy | Energy efficiency | Panel | Energy poverty | Panel and factor analysis
Knowledge Area: Economía Aplicada
Issue Date: 29-Jun-2022
Publisher: Frontiers Media
Citation: Taltavull de La Paz P, Juárez Tárrega F, Su Z and Monllor P (2022) Sources of Energy Poverty: A Factor Analysis Approach for Spain. Front. Energy Res. 10:847845. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2022.847845
Abstract: This study estimates housing quality and features explaining energy poverty in Spain and its regions. By using the EU-SILC dataset for 2008–2019, it calculates the hidden links between energy poverty indicators and housing features, controlled by other variables such as type of household, poverty, and housing tenancy. Confirmatory factor analysis is used to identify the role of different dimensions in explaining energy poverty at the household level. The empirical evidence finds three hidden factors associating energy poverty with poverty, poor housing quality, and housing size and outskirts location. These three factors enable classifying households accordingly, revealing their distribution across Spain and three of its 17 Spanish regions: Madrid, Cataluña, and Valencian Community. Findings indicate how the impact of energy poverty differs by region, rejecting the general hypothesis that all households in poverty live in poor housing because they cannot afford the maintenance costs, thus causing energy poverty. Results suggest that energy poverty due to poor housing quality and location affects many households that are not necessarily poor, with different impacts depending on location. The association between energy poverty and larger houses located on the outskirts represents new evidence in the literature and is one of the contributions of this study, together with the methodology for classification. Results suggest that retrofitting investment would be crucial in reducing energy poverty problems in Spain.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/124814
ISSN: 2296-598X
DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2022.847845
Language: eng
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Rights: © 2022 Taltavull de La Paz, Juárez Tárrega, Su and Monllor. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Peer Review: si
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2022.847845
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