THE SITUATION OF ENERGY POVERTY AND THE VULNERABLE CONSUMER IN ROMANIA.

Energy poverty has become a global problem, a phenomenon that has grown alarmingly due to the crisis caused by the COVID19 pandemic, the crisis of high energy prices in 2021, followed by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. These recent events, as well as those associated with the energy transition that occurred in the last decades, have highlighted, in addition to the involvement of government institutions in terms of the necessity of policies in the field of energy, the need to research the phenomenon of energy poverty as well as the need for awareness of the phenomenon among local authorities and of the citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]