Fuel Poverty in Korea and Its Policy Implications

Kim, Hyeon-kyeong

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dc.contributor.author	Kim, Hyeon-kyeong
dc.date.accessioned	2017-06-02T05:00:50Z
dc.date.available	2017-06-02T05:00:50Z
dc.date.issued	2015-06-30
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.kihasa.re.kr/handle/201002/21440
dc.description.abstract	Fuel poverty has been defined by the UK's Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act (2000) as a condition where a household needs to spend at least 10 percent of its income on fuel to keep its home properly heated, to 21°C in the living room and 18°C in the other parts of it. The definition has been found to be overly broad and unable to preclude high-income households that spends more than 10 percent of their income on fuel. In his 2012 report Getting the measure of fuel poverty, John Hills proposed the "Low Income, High Cost" (LIHC) approach setting two thresholds: a fuel poverty threshold of 60 percent of median income after deducting fuel costs and a fuel costs threshold which is estimated based on the median modeled cost. A household's energy cost presupposes an adequate level of energy use, and as the discussion is still ongoing in Korea as to what constitutes an "adequate level" of energy consumption, this study assumes that a household is fuel-poor if it spends too much of its income on energy or is unable to keep the home adequately warm.
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dc.format.extent	6
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	한국보건사회연구원
dc.publisher	Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Korea
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/kr/
dc.title	Fuel Poverty in Korea and Its Policy Implications
dc.type	Article
dc.type.local	Article(Series)
dc.contributor.alternativeName	김현경
dc.contributor.affiliatedAuthor	김현경
dc.citation.title	Research in Brief
dc.citation.number	7
dc.citation.startPage	1
dc.citation.endPage	6
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Research in Brief, no. 7, pp. 1 - 6