Connected Yet Suffering : The Lived Experiences of Czech
Households through Energy Service Provider Bankruptcies

C 2024

Connected Yet Suffering : The Lived Experiences of Czech Households through Energy Service Provider Bankruptcies

DAVID, Dominik a Hedvika KOĎOUSKOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Connected Yet Suffering : The Lived Experiences of Czech Households through Energy Service Provider Bankruptcies

Autoři

DAVID, Dominik a Hedvika KOĎOUSKOVÁ

Vydání

London, Living with Energy Poverty : Perspectives from the Global North and South, od s. 104-114, 11 s. Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies, 2024

Nakladatel

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/24:00135216

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

ISBN

978-1-032-52818-2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003408536-12

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85176317777

Klíčová slova anglicky

Energy poverty; energy vulnerability; energy providers bankruptcies; Bohemia Energy; energy policy; Czech Republic; lived experience

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 12. 3. 2025 16:19, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

In the Czech Republic, the public debate around energy poverty was nascent. Only recently, the issue has gained more significant political and media attention due to rising energy prices in the autumn of 2021 and the bankruptcy of several alternative energy service providers, including the most prominent one—Bohemia Energy. In total, around 900, 000 customer sites were affected. As required by law, households were immediately taken over by the so-called “supplier of the last instance” regime. Practically, they were protected from disconnection. However, many households faced difficulties paying for new deposit payments, which meant falling into energy poverty. In this chapter, we briefly discuss the state's unpreparedness for such an unprecedented event, possibly caused by a narrow understanding of energy vulnerability that prevailed in the Czech Republic before autumn 2021. Through the lens of energy cultures framework, we analyse semi-structured interviews with affected households. We reveal what it means to be energy vulnerable and how households' behaviour changed under scarcity. We argue that state unpreparedness, poor communication, and “lacking practices” contribute to households' energy vulnerability. The research suggests that misunderstandings about which groups are energy vulnerable can leave many households behind. Our aim is therefore to contribute to a better understanding of energy poverty and vulnerability through ongoing efforts to define and address this issue not only in the Czech Republic but across the EU.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1196/2022, interní kód MU

Název: Perspektivy evropské integrace v kontextu globální politiky V

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Perspektivy evropské integrace v kontextu globální politiky V

Přiložené soubory

Connected_yet_suffering.pdf

Požádat o autorskou verzi souboru

Citovat

DAVID, Dominik a Hedvika KOĎOUSKOVÁ. Connected Yet Suffering : The Lived Experiences of Czech Households through Energy Service Provider Bankruptcies. In Paola Velasco Herrejón, Breffní Lennon, Niall P. Dunphy. Living with Energy Poverty : Perspectives from the Global North and South. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024, s. 104-114. Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies. ISBN 978-1-032-52818-2. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003408536-12.

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DAVID, Dominik a Hedvika KOĎOUSKOVÁ. Connected Yet Suffering : The Lived Experiences of Czech Households through Energy Service Provider Bankruptcies. In Paola Velasco Herrejón, Breffní Lennon, Niall P. Dunphy. \textit{Living with Energy Poverty : Perspectives from the Global North and South}. London: Routledge, Taylor \&{} Francis Group, 2024, s.~104-114. Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies. ISBN~978-1-032-52818-2. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003408536-12.

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