ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the socio-spatial variation of energy poverty factors in ECE and FSU. It aims to explore, within the constraints of data availability, the manner in which the forces that shape the spatial distribution of inadequately heated homes vary across different spatial scales and social groups. Creating such an all-encompassing overview, however, has been difficult due to the absence of energy poverty from the conceptual language of both official data-gathering organizations and other research bodies in the region. With the exception of the handful of studies described in the previous chapter, there has been no work aimed specifically at establishing exactly which populations and locales might be affected by domestic energy deprivation. Aside from the poor political awareness about the problem, one of the reasons for this situation is the complete lack of data about domestic energy deprivation.
