STRENGTHENING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESILIENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF CRISIS AND THE ACTUAL ENERGY CHALLENGES.

Research on energy resilience seeks to identify how increases in electricity costs influence income or "unbalance the budget" in the existing economic situation, a health crisis, an increase in inflation, a war situation at the country borders that also favored the energy crisis. The new conditions affect the social well-being of the population not only in Romania but also for other EU countries. The investigation carried out tried to highlight the changes in the behaviour of the population in order to achieve the reduction of energy consumption and implicitly the costs that for some income categories affect their budget. This study tries to demonstrate the need for sustainability, in order to maintain social welfare for all categories of the population affected by these price increases. The situation affects the entire population if we take into account the fact that 10% of the population investigated through qualitative analyzes mention that: "they do not have money for paying the bills", 14% "don't have money to eat" the residual income left after paying the bills is not enough for a satisfactory daily shopping basket in the conditions of an uncontrollable market, 7% cannot pay the bank rates and interest and 75% of the population are unable to reserves and consumes from the created deposits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]