THE IMPACT OF THE BONO SOCIAL DE ELECTRICIDAD ON ENERGY POVERTY IN SPAIN

Autor

GARCÍA ALVAREZ, GUILLERMO

TOL, RICHARD S.J.

Fecha
Materias

ENERGIA ELECTRICA

ECONOMIA NACIONAL

POLITICA ENERGETICA

País

ESPAÑA

Resumen

The Bono Social de Electricidad (BSE) is a government programme, introduced in 2009, to reduce energy poverty in Spain. The BSE is a discount on the price of electricity, available to vulnerable households who applied. Applying differences-in-differences and propensity score matching to household data between 2008 and 2011, we find no statistically significant impact of the intention to treat on two indicators of energy poverty, viz. the ability to keep the house adequately warm, and the presence of damp walls, rotting windows and leaking roofs. This may be because eligible households did not apply. A third indicator, delays in paying electricity bills, showed a statistically significant deterioration. That is, the BSE has not reduced energy poverty, if anything it has made it worse. This is not because eligible households transferred income to relatives hit harder by the financial crises, but it may be because the BSE discount did not fully compensate for the cold of 2010.

Tipo de Contenido

ARTICULO DE REVISTA. ARIAE

Revista

ENERGY ECONOMICS

Número y Volumen

Volume 103 (November 2021)

Páginas

1-8

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