Determinants of Households’ Energy Consumption Patterns

Date:

September 26th, 2025 (UTC +3)

Organizer:

Danubius University from Galati

Symposium Chair:

Personal Bio:

Florian Marcel Nuţă is a Professor Dr. Habil. at Danubius University from Galaţi, with over 17 years of teaching and research experience. He is affiliated with Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Doctoral School of Social and Human Sciences, for research and doctoral supervision. His scientific research is conducted in the following fields: Environmental Accounting, Climate Change Economics, Energy Economics, Urban Environmental Accounting, Carbon Accounting, Green Taxation, and Public Policy.

He is involved in numerous editorial initiatives as editor-in-chief, editor, member of the international scientific board, and reviewer for scientific journals and international conferences, conducting more than 500 peer-reviews during his academic career.

Dr. Nuţă worked as a reviewer for Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Efficiency, Resources Policy, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, Economic Research, Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Countries, Cogent Business and Management, and other peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Symposium Description:

Background:

Households are responsible for an important share of carbon emissions due to their consumption patterns, one of which being the energy consumption. There are various features influencing these patterns. In the context of achieving sustainability, several sustainable development goals were set. Among these, mitigating poverty and gender inequalities are relevant according to recent research to shaping households’ energy consumption patterns. It was previously documented that poor households pay more for their energy consumption than richer people, only because they cannot afford to invest in energy efficient goods or more efficient fuels (poverty vs energy paradox) (Saghir, 2005). Under these circumstances, it is likely they will stay poor (Indrawati, 2015).

Goal/Rationale:

The goal of this event is to discover the reasons and debate about how income and gender inequalities, which create social and economic disparities, impact energy patterns and the households’ potential to achieve sustainability and adopt green behavior regarding energy consumption. In addition, based on recent research results and energy market facts we aim to shape and suggest potential policy recommendations and create the premises to an increased awareness regarding the transformative potential energy just transition have. Energy transition is one of the key actions for mitigating climate change. Nevertheless, due to the challenges related to renewable energy implementation costs and affordability, other social and economic features such as poverty and gender equality may affect its efficiency.

Scope and Information for Participants:

The symposium will include presentations and debates on several topics, but not limited to: energy poverty, energy transitions, income inequalities, energy consumption, social and economic factors influencing energy consumption, green behavior, gender inequalities, energy transition’ s social and economic costs, households’ energy patterns. The participants will be invited to get involved into debates and communicate their point of view on these topics, participating in drafting several policy recommendations, based on the presentations and debates’ outcomes.

Venue:

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Danubius University from Galati, Bulevardul Galati 3, Galati 800654, Romania

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