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Disconnected, yet in the spotlight: Emergency research on extreme energy poverty in the Cañada Real informal settlement, Spain

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Ingeniería Térmica y de Fluidosen
dc.affiliation.grupoinvUC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Tecnologías Apropiadas para el Desarrollo Sosteniblees
dc.contributor.authorRuiz-Rivas Hernando, Ulpiano
dc.contributor.authorTirado-Herrero, Sergio
dc.contributor.authorCastaño-Rosa, Raúl
dc.contributor.authorMartínez Crespo, Jorge
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-23T11:55:27Z
dc.date.available2023-10-23T11:55:27Z
dc.date.issued2023-08
dc.description.abstractCañada Real is a 15-km informal settlement located in Madrid, Spain. With over 8000 inhabitants most dwellers live below the poverty line in informal, low-quality housing. Due to the impossibility to have legal supply contracts with utility providers, Cañada Real settlers have relied on irregular connections to nearby electricity and water distribution networks for decades. However, in October 2020, technical changes implemented by the distribution system operator left some 4000 people without access to power, and more than two years later a large share of them remain in those conditions. Emergency research has been conducted to document the change in living conditions experienced by Cañada Real residents. Census data have been analysed together with primary data from a 39-household survey, data retrieved from electricity service continuity sensors and direct measurements of indoor thermal comfort in 12 households. This set of data provides unique evidence on the impact of a collective disconnection event of an unprecedented magnitude in an EU context. Results give evidence of a case of ‘extreme energy poverty" that existing datasets and indicators fail to capture. The collective adaptation response displayed by a group of residents, who agreed on an intermittent, predictable disconnection schedule, highlights social fabric, self-organization and local capacities as resilience factors that provide temporary relief. Still, collective reconnection appears as a necessary first step to secure a minimum level of material living conditions. Political action is needed to modify the existing framework that marginalizes vulnerable dwellers as non-compliant customers, without any provisions against supply disconnections.en
dc.description.sponsorshipSergio Tirado-Herrero acknowledges funding from the 'Ramón y Cajal' program supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant RYC2020-029750-I). Raúl Castaño-Rosa acknowledges for the support provided by Tampere University and The RESCUE-Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis management in Urban Environments-Academy of Finland funded project (number 339711). The article publishing charges were funded by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Read & Publish Agreement CRUE-CSIC 2023).en
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRuiz-Rivas, U., Tirado-Herrero, S., Castaño-Rosa, R., & Martínez-Crespo, J. (2023). Disconnected, yet in the spotlight: emergency research on extreme energy poverty in the Cañada Real Informal Settlement, Spain. Energy Research & Social Science, 102, 103182.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103182
dc.identifier.issn2214-6296
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage1
dc.identifier.publicationissue103182
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage18
dc.identifier.publicationtitleEnergy Research & Social Scienceen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume102
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/38650
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000033445
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.ispartofhttp://hdl.handle.net/10016/38662
dc.rights© 2023 The Authors.en
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaElectrónicaes
dc.subject.ecienciaEnergías Renovableses
dc.subject.ecienciaFísicaes
dc.subject.ecienciaIngeniería Industriales
dc.subject.ecienciaIngeniería Mecánicaes
dc.subject.otherEnergy poverten
dc.subject.otherInformal settlementsen
dc.subject.otherCollective disconnectionsen
dc.subject.otherElectricityen
dc.subject.otherMadriden
dc.titleDisconnected, yet in the spotlight: Emergency research on extreme energy poverty in the Cañada Real informal settlement, Spainen
dc.typeresearch article*
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