Research co-authored by Tijn Croon (ESR11) cited in Dutch Parliament

In a recent session on 24 October 2024, a Dutch parliamentary select committee on energy poverty referenced a study co-authored by Tijn Croon (ESR11), Marja Elsinga, and Joris Hoekstra, published last year in Energy Policy. The committee discussed the paper’s recommendation to go beyond a basic ‘headcount approach’ to measuring energy poverty, advocating instead for energy poverty gap indices. This approach, the authors argue, would more accurately capture the depth and nuance of deprivation, enabling better targeting of resources and improving the evaluation of policy impact.

Croon recently partnered with the other two co-authors of the study, TNO researchers Dr Peter Mulder and Dr Francesco Dalla-Longa to translate these findings into a Dutch policy report, now with updated national statistics. The Dutch Statistics Bureau (CBS) has expressed its intention to incorporate this refined methodology into the next annual energy poverty monitor.

The parliamentary session can be viewed here, and the full policy report is available on TNO’s website here.