ENERGETSKO SIROMAŠTVO, ENERGETSKA TRANZICIJA I STANOVNICI PODSTANDARDNIH ROMSKIH NASELJA U SRBIJI1
ENERGETIC POVERTY, ENERGY TRANSITION AND RESIDENTS OF SUBSTANDARD ROMANI SETTLEMENTS IN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: This text analyzes the position and potential of substandard Roma settlements to be participants in a just energy transition and thereby reduce the risk of energy poverty, in order to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of substandard Roma settlements. Serbia is facing a new transition, which this time will be an energy transition, a transition from a system in which non-renewable sources are dominantly used for energy production to a system based on the use of renewable energy sources. The experiences of the economic transition show that the number of “losers“ of this transition was significantly higher than the number of those who profited from it. In order not to repeat such a situation with the energy transition, it is necessary to introduce fairness and social sensitivity in its implementation, in order to protect the poorest citizens who are at risk of energy poverty and who are potential losers of the energy transition. If realized in a timely manner and with social sensitivity, a fair energy transition could enable the transition to renewable energy sources and thereby reduce the effects of climate change, while improving the quality of life of all people, with an emphasis on those in the most marginalized positions.

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