ReRISK - Regions at Risk of Energy Poverty

Main research areas

• Linking available data on energy production and consumption in the European regions with their territorial characteristics, socioeconomic as well as environmental indicators in order to obtain a clear picture on how increasing energy prices might affect different types of regions
• Examination of the vulnerability for energy poverty for different types of regions.
• Scenarios for different types of European regions on the impact of rising energy prices on regional competitiveness and cohesion and case studies on selected regions.
• Definition of policy recommendations for regions to be empowered to cope with rising energy prices as well as guidelines that policy maker on European, national and regional levels can apply in view of the risk of energy poverty.
   

Main results envisaged

• Substantial data input to the ESPON Database.
• Indicators offering additional information on the regional impact of increasing energy prices on transport, private households, and industry, and new complex indicators, revealing the regions’ socio-economic situation and the impact of increasing energy prices on their competitiveness.
• Typologies of European regions reflecting the impact of increasing energy prices on the demand side as well as on the supply side.
• European maps revealing the degree of vulnerability of different types of European regions to increasing energy prices, energy consumption patterns on regional levels for transport and industry as well as development opportunities for regions in Europe to save energy and to generate renewable energies.