High energy prices are causing difficulties for a wide range of households and exacerbating the hardship of those who were already suffering from poverty and exclusion from meeting basic needs before the current energy crisis. Energy poverty is a broad socio-economic problem - it is a cocktail of several deficiencies in social and energy policy, which has recently been compounded by external factors.

Wise social policy can bring a better quality of life by fighting energy poverty, but also reduce air pollution. Avoiding waste of energy, eliminating dependence on fossil fuels and strengthening clean modern energy sources are solutions that target both problems at the same time.