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Energy consumption of buildings and urban energy poverty assessment: case study of a Madrid neighbourhood

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The assessment of the energy consumption of buildings is essential in analysing energy poverty. Current indicators in Spain are based on real consumption. The aim is to advance with the assessment of theoretical energy consumption in order to understand the economic expense behind keeping a home at an adequate temperature, regardless of the actual use of energy facilities, which might be low as a result of a lack of resources or excessive due to lack of control. A simplified method is proposed for this, which allows for an agile assessment on an urban scale and which is applied to a vulnerable Madrid neighbourhood, Pan Bendito, in Spain. The household in Pan Bendito with electric heating find themselves in energy poverty due to the high economic cost of the aforementioned heating system. Households with gas heating, whose economic cost is lower, do not find themselves in energy poverty. Establishing a reduced price for adjusted consumption and a high price for excessive consumption is advisable.

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All persons who have made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript (e.g. technical help, writing and editing assistance, general support), but who do not meet the criteria for authorship, are named in the Acknowledgments and have given us their written permission to be named. If we have not included an Acknowledgements in our manuscript, then that indicates that we have not received substantial contributions from non-authors.

We would like to thank Raquel Rentero Lavín, social worker of the Pan Bendito social platform, for her contributions to this paper received through the interview conducted on 21 March 2020.

We would like to thank Fernando García de Frutos for downloading the catastral data for the 2382 households analysed in this work.

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Sánchez-Torija, J.G., Nieto, M.A.F. Energy consumption of buildings and urban energy poverty assessment: case study of a Madrid neighbourhood. Energy Efficiency 15, 53 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-022-10061-w

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