? Social costs of the current energy systems: what can we learn for future decarbonization

Please join us for our next Monday departmental seminar on the 3rd of January from 15:00 to 16:00 at the Porter Auditorium.

https://tau-ac-il.zoom.us/j/83229921170

Na'ama Teschner, BGU University

Social costs of the current energy systems: what can we learn for future decarbonization?

Energy insecurity is defined as the inability to obtain sufficient safe, reliable, and affordable energy to meet basic household needs such as cooking, boiling water, lighting, and heating and operating various essential technologies such as medical devices. It is a global problem, with approximately 1 billion people worldwide with no access to electricity and more than 50 million people in Europe alone who are considered energy poor. In this presentation, I will give a brief introduction to the topic of energy poverty, contextualize it as part of the 'energy trilemma' and discuss the results of local studies that examined the regulatory-institutional mechanisms behind it. Open questions remain regarding the social consequences of current and future energy transitions (decarbonization, decentralization, and digitization), especially for the more vulnerable households and communities.