The average net monthly income of the households that participated in the survey (including allowances, rental income, etc. ) was. . Since the outbreak of the Greek debt crisis in 2010 a significant number of households cannot cover their energy needs for heating, cooling, lighting or cooking due to a combination of factors (income cuts, tax increases, rise in unemployment rates, shrinking of welfare benefits, increase in fuel. . The Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL. • Based on the. . Employing dynamic Probit random effects and Wooldridge conditional maximum likelihood (WCML) estimators, we find evidence of genuine state dependence effects in consensual-based energy poverty among Greek households. Poverty persistence (10-12%) effects are also evident in our data.