Abstract:

The motivation that prompted the authors to take up this research topic is the growing amount of energy consumed by society and the resulting problems, which are now a natural consequence and the price to be paid for economic growth and civilization progress. The increase in the quality of life of household dwellers is increasingly dependent on energy and is extremely sensitive to any changes related to it, such as disruptions in its supply or difficulties in its free use. As studies and daily experiences of many households show, restrictions on access to energy are becoming increasingly common not only among poor but also more affluent societies. This difficulty, however, is not seen as one of the dimensions of energy poverty, which is a determinant of the level of energy security of the local community. As a result, for many local authorities this problem is either completely alien or constitutes a low priority. Although there are local authorities for which the problem is recognised, in the absence of appropriate definitions of heat poverty and the lack of appropriate tools to study the phenomenon, the problem is studied and solved in an intuitive way.