Full Title: Equity in Energy Resilience
Author(s): Patrick Murphy and Bethany Kwoka
Publisher(s): PSE Healthy Energy
Publication Date: October 29, 2024
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Description (excerpt):
Across California, 4.4 million households face an energy affordability gap totalling $4.1
billion dollars, where energy costs in these households are greater than 8.5 percent of their net income. If the costs of dealing with power outages are included, another $900 million dollars in resilient energy affordability gap emerges for 4.9 million households. While the energy gap is emerging as an equity and affordability metric for energy policy decision making, considerations of resilient energy affordability gaps are so far lacking. Here they provide a method to measure the affordability gap incurred by a lack of resilient energy, using similar methods as those established for energy affordability analyses to account for equity in outage impact analysis.