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Chapter 1 Introduction 3
Section 1 Background and Purpose 3
Section 2 Contents and Method 5
Section 3 Expected Effect and Utilization 8
Chapter 2 Energy Welfare Policy in Selected Countries and Its Implications 11
Section 1 Energy Welfare in the U.K. 11
Section 2 Energy Welfare in the U.S. 29
Section 3 Policy Implications 42
Chapter 3 Analysis of Energy Welfare Policy in Korea 49
Section 1 Trends in Research in Energy Welfare 49
Section 2 Overview of Korea’s Energy Welfare Policy 55
Section 3 Characteristics and Limitations of Energy Welfare Policy 70
Chapter 4 Energy Consumption among Low-Income Families and Its Policy Implications 77
Section 1 Energy Poverty and Its Scale 77
Section 2 Current State of Energy Consumption 86
Section 3 Energy Poverty of Socially Vulnerable Groups 101
Chapter 5 Ways to Systematize Energy Welfare 109
Section 1 Conceptual Approach and Policy Directions to Energy Welfare 109
Section 2 Energy Welfare: Target Groups and Benefit Level 129
Section 3 Structure of Energy Welfare Policy 153
Section 4 Priorities in the Promotion of Energy Welfare 174