On 27 June 2023, the workshop ‘To Heat or to Eat: Confronting Energy Poverty and the State of Just Energy Transitions’ took place at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The workshop brought together leading academics in the Netherlands working on energy poverty and the energy transition, to explore together how to achieve a just energy transition which quickly reduces ecological impact without leaving anyone behind.
During this event, Pien van Berkel gave a presentation on policy recommendations to tackle energy poverty in the Netherlands. She presented the main conclusions from two of our recent studies on energy poverty: