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

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. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024, s. 104-114. Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies. ISBN 978-1-032-52818-2. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003408536-12.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Connected Yet Suffering : The Lived Experiences of Czech Households through Energy Service Provider Bankruptcies
• Autoři: DAVID, Dominik (203 Česká republika, domácí) a Hedvika KOĎOUSKOVÁ (203 Česká republika, domácí).
• Vydání: London, Living with Energy Poverty, od s. 104-114, 11 s. Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies, 2024.
• Nakladatel: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Další údaje

• Originální 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"
• WWW: URL
• Organizační jednotka: Fakulta sociálních studií
• ISBN: 978-1-032-52818-2
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003408536-12
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Energy poverty; energy vulnerability; energy providers bankruptcies; Bohemia Energy; energy policy; Czech Republic; lived experience
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Anotace

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