| Summary: | This document aims at contributing to the reflection of innovativeness of policies to alleviate energy poverty by providing a review of the literature that identifies and summarizes novel approaches and measures currently being implemented. This review is thus meant to offer a contribution to knowledge on the state-of-the-art concerning policies to tackle energy poverty, as well as a contribution to knowledge exchange across different contexts and disciplines on the most advanced strategies and solutions. In order to accomplish this, the review initially searched documents on energy poverty focused on innovation, according to a set of criteria for the selection of these documents. Yet, since it was found that there is a lack of research on what can be considered innovative or not in tackling energy poverty, a second method to assess innovation concerning this topic was employed. A short survey was conducted among the international network of experts related to this COST Action. Based on the results of this survey, which identified approximately 60 policies considered innovative by the experts, a procedure was developed to evaluate their characteristics. The outcome of this “innovation check” is a matrix that identifies the dimensions and sub-dimensions that are common to innovative policies to alleviate energy poverty.
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