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The nexus between deprivation of access to modern energy, poverty and the environment has been in evidence in international sustainability projects and studies. The use of micro-scale renewable energy technology has been promoted not only for its environmental benefits but also for the potential co-benefits of its applications. This research analyses how decentralized photovoltaic solar energy systems (DCPV) contribute to the energy poverty alleviation of La Pila Delegation, a vulnerable peri-urban community located in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Adopting a multidisciplinary method based on secondary data, this study executed an energy poverty diagnosis, a policy analysis and built six different scenarios of the application of DCPV under distributed generation schemes. An impact assessment for social, environmental and financial aspects was applied in each scenario. Its results indicate that the application of grid-connected DCPV contributes to the local energy poverty alleviation by providing security and more affordability to the electric energy chain that is responsible for delivering part of the community's fundamental energy services. Further, it was discovered it positively impacts aspects of the energy vulnerability, precarity, injustices and fragilities of the socio-energy system that collaborates with the existence of energy poverty in the location. Environmentally, it supports climate change mitigation due to the avoidance of greenhouse gases emissions and water consumption in energy generation, also having the co-benefit of distributing financial savings to different governmental institutions and local households. Recognizing its limitations, this research concluded that this type of application represents a step further towards positioning technology in service of people's fundamental needs in coherence with the planetary boundaries. ; El nexo entre la privación del acceso a energía moderna, la pobreza y el medio ambiente ha estado internacionalmente en evidencia en proyectos y estudios en el área de la ...