Simoes, Sofia G.Gregório, VeraSeixas, Júlia2018-07-112018-07-1120161876-6102PURE: 5415024PURE UUID: 6f51c782-37fa-46d0-b7b8-b93254eeb06bScopus: 85013025253WOS: 000391724700013ORCID: /0000-0003-4304-1411/work/49897158ORCID: /0000-0003-0355-0465/work/92872472http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85013025253&partnerID=8YFLogxKThe research work underlying this paper was funded by European Economic Area Financial Mechanism EEA - Grants through the project ClimAdaPT. Local, promoted by the APA-Environment Portuguese Agency. The authors acknowledge the work of Tiago Pocas Lopes and of Patricia Fortes that was very valuable to support the estimation of useful energy needs per dwelling.We defined a novel methodology to assess the potential fuel poverty of residential dwellings at LAU2 level combining data on income, level of education, unemployment rate, and number of inhabitants above 65 years old, with both the space heating and cooling gap estimated per household typology. We create an indicator of the share of potential fuel poor inhabitants in each LAU 2 region. We implemented this methodology for 29 municipalities in Portugal. On average 22% of the inhabitants are potentially fuel poor regarding their dwellings' space heating and 29% regarding space cooling. There is a large variation across the country.111121825engFuel povertyheating and coolingresidential buildingsthermal comfortGeneral EnergySDG 7 - Affordable and Clean EnergySDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growthconference object10.1016/j.egypro.2016.12.112https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85013025253