This Open Access book examines the implications of welfare policy for
energy poverty and engages with key conceptual debates at the forefront
of energy demand research. Academic work on energy poverty has rarely
been brought into conversation with practice-theory-based approaches to
energy use and sustainability. This book reveals how novel insights can
be made visible through combining these different ways of thinking about
energy demand issues. It presents a distinctive approach to energy
poverty that places inequalities at the heart of debates about the
advancing energy intensity of contemporary societies.