Energy Research & Social Science

Article	Citations
Power dynamics, shifting roles, and learning: Exploring key actors in participation processes in the German energy transformation (Energiewende)	285
Editorial Board	266
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	239
Editorial Board	171
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	162
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	158
Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia	157
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	157
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	137
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	131
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	123
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	122
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	118
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	110
When beyond compliance is the expectation: the realities of environmental planning and permitting for renewable energy projects in the great plains of the United States	110
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review	110
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi	97
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids	96
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	92
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	90
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	89
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications	87
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	87
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	85
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	85

Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing	84
Riding the wave of acceptance: Understanding factors in support for marine energy in the United States	83
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	83
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom	82
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	80
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	79
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	79
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	76
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	75
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	75
The temporal evolution of resistance strategies during low-carbon transitions: Revealing the industry playbook of US, German, and Japanese automakers in the unfolding electric vehicle transition (1990	74
Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability and change in transitions	73
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	72
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	72
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	72
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	70
Can renewable energy communities enable a just energy transition? Exploring alignment between stakeholder motivations and needs and EU policy in Latvia, Norway, Portugal and Spain	69
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	69
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	68
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	68
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries	67
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	67
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	67
Rarely pure and never simple: Exploring perceptions of truth and objectivity in energy modelling and scenarios	66
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa	65
Making the difficult easy: Reducing carbon footprint while preserving quality of life through effective behavior change	65
Neighbourhood batteries in Australia: Anticipating questions of value conflict and (in)justice	64
Product traits, decision-makers, and household low-carbon technology adoptions: moving beyond single empirical studies	64
What is nuclear cultural heritage? Developing an analytical framework	64
Understanding the social norms of cooling in Chinese offices: Predominance, professionalism, and peer respect	63
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality	63
Editorial Board	62
Editorial Board	62
How do policies drive China's hydrogen energy industrialization? A comparative analysis of policy across central and regional governments (2016–2024)	61
The solar influencer next door: Predicting low income solar referrals and leads	61
Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms	61
Cycles of adversity: Parental joblessness in childhood and energy poverty in adulthood	60
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–2013	60
Solar aporias: On precarity and praxis in interdisciplinary research on solar energy	60
Unjust or just unfortunate? Examining claims of procedural (in)justice in the pursuit of universal electricity access in Rwanda	60
Pipelines and power: Psychological distress, political alienation, and the breakdown of environmental justice in government agencies' public participation processes	59
Towards accessibility or affordability? Multidimensional energy poverty across the South African urban–rural divide	59
Future at play: Applying Reflexive Public Reason in the case of Taiwanese energy transition	58
Making energy renovations equitable: A literature review of decision-making criteria for a just energy transition in residential buildings	58
Measuring success: Evaluating the business model of rural mini-grid ecosystems	58
Towards an intersectional justice approach to carbon taxation: Energy poverty, vulnerable households, and revenue recycling in Ireland	57
Shifting sustainable lifestyle practices and behaviour during times of pandemic disruptive change: Implications for on-going socio-technical transitions	57
Does energy poverty impede job search success? Evidence from the unemployed in Australia	57
Navigating Russia's war and energy transition: Poland's coal challenge	56
For the climate, my friends, or my region? An experimental field trial for prosumer engagement with peer-to-peer energy trading in Austria	56

A stakeholder-centred narrative exploration on carbon capture, utilisation and storage: A systems thinking and participatory approach	56
When oil companies race to the bottom: Environmental enforcement in theory and corporate impunity in practice in the Peruvian Amazon	55
Divergent consumer preferences and visions for cooking and heating technologies in the United Kingdom: Make our homes clean, safe, warm and smart!	55
Winds of fortune? Understanding the geographic, sociodemographic, and temporal distribution of benefit mechanisms from land-based wind projects in the United States	55
Quiet power: How security interests shape offshore wind and marine spatial planning in Sweden	55
Conceptualizing resilience: An energy services approach	54
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland	54
Domestic electricity consumers and the interactive bill: design intervention for improved energy literacy and empowerment	54
Cultural norms to support gender equity in energy development: Grounding the productive use agenda in Rwanda	53
Getting the signal – Do electricity users meet the preconditions for making informed decisions on demand response?	53
Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic	53
Together we're smart! Flemish and Dutch energy communities' replication strategies in smart grid experiments	53
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand	53
How can policy balance the goals of transition acceleration and justice? Permitting reform, large-scale renewable energy, and host communities in the United States	52
American policy conflict in the hothouse: Exploring the politics of climate inaction and polycentric rebellion	51
Designing effective demand response: A review of behavioral insights, consumer engagement, and operational strategies in energy systems	51
Deepening regional power connectivity: Beyond the industry-centric perspective	51
What came first, the pellet or boiler? Interacting leverage points within a sociotechnical system in the United States	50
Managing transition risk: Toward an interdisciplinary understanding of strategies in the oil industry	50
Challenges of the current discourse on incumbent firms in sustainability transitions	50
Between decentralization and reintermediation: Blockchain platforms and the governance of ‘commons-led’ and ‘business-led’ energy transitions	49
A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways	49
Falling short in 2030: Simulating battery-electric vehicle adoption behaviour in the Netherlands	49
A forward looking perspective on the cement and concrete industry: Implications of growth and development in the Global South	49
Community benefit agreements for solar energy: Examining values, preferences and perceived benefits in the United States using a discrete choice experiment	49
Modeling stakeholder interactions for post-disaster electric power restoration: A multi-agent and game-theoretic approach	49
Critical minerals and the shaping of Central Asian economies through the ages	49
Transitioning or tinkering at a net-zero economy? Introducing an assessment framework for industrial cluster decarbonisation in the United Kingdom	49
Norwegian–Polish carbon capture and storage network: Bilateral collaboration for European climate action	48
Greenhouse gas neutrality: A qualitative analysis of perceived sustainability tensions in the German chemical industry	48
Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions and hydrogen pathways in Norway	48
Pushing out or pulling in? The determinants of Chinese energy finance in developing countries	48
Theorising resistance in times of fossil fuels: Ecological grief, righteous anger and interaction rituals in Sweden's energy regime shift	47
Smooth sailing ahead? Policy options for China's new energy vehicle industry in the post-subsidy era	47
Institutional entrepreneuring for energy poverty: The role of boundary work in developing a collaborative product-service system for household appliances	47
How to make energy efficiency labels more effective: Insights from discrete choice experiments in Ghana and the Philippines	46
Comparing sustainability transition labs across process, effects and impacts: Insights from Canada and Sweden	46
One service fits all? Insights on demand response dilemmas of differently equipped households in Germany	46
Facilitating gendered and socially inclusive energy transitions in sub-Saharan Africa	45
Adjust the thermostat and eat more plants? Comparing energy and climate knowledge amongst botanical garden members	45
Lacking the confidence of one's convictions: Gender differences in energy tariff literacy	45
Energy justice in post-Paris India: Unpacking consensus and conflict through storylines and discourse coalitions	45
Epistemic justice impossible? Expert perceptions of the participatory monitoring of geo-energy projects in Poland	44
The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia	44
Overcoming barriers and seizing opportunities for smart meters in developing countries: Insights from a large-scale field study in India	44
From innovation to integration: institutional design challenges for emerging energy storage technologies in the Netherlands	43
Data donation: Using the gift relationship framework to address privacy and environmental issues of energy consumption data collection	43
Toward energy democracy: Municipal energy actions in local renewable energy projects	43
Transport poverty vulnerability index: Making use of standardised databases	43
Palm trees, energy security and green hydrogen futures: Tourists' views on Mallorca's low carbon transition	42
Watered down justice: Experiences of the offshore wind transition in Northeast coastal communities in the United States	42
Navigating unchartered waters: Overcoming barriers to low-emission fuels in Swedish maritime cargo transport	42
Out of sight, out of mind? The importance of local context and trust in understanding the social acceptance of biogas projects: A global scale review	42
Beyond dark money: Information subsidies and complex networks of opposition to offshore wind on the U.S. East Coast	42
Psychological and social factors driving citizen involvement in renewable energy communities: A systematic review	42
Do laundry when the sun shines: Factors that promote loadshifting in Dutch households with solar panels	42
Australian microgrids: Navigating complexity in the regional energy transition	41
Electrifying company cars? The effects of incentives and tax benefits on electric vehicle sales in 31 European countries	41
Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: A place-based research agenda	41
Innovators, followers and laggards in home solar PV: Factors driving diffusion in Finland	41
Carbon emissions in metal manufacturing productivity: A global analysis of aluminium smelting	41
Systematic Historical Analogue Research for Decision-making (SHARD): Introducing a new methodology for using historical case studies to inform low-carbon transitions	41
What does Horizon 2020 contribute to? Analysing and visualising the community practices of Europe's largest research and innovation programme	40
Role of street-level policy entrepreneurs in sustainability transition: Evidence from India's transition to LED lighting	40
Exploring the spatial characteristics of energy injustice: A comparison of the power generation landscapes in Spain, Denmark, and South Korea	39
Intersectionality in good faith: Beyond normative claims and towards practical integration in energy justice research	39
Rushing for the gold of the energy transition: An empirical exploration of the relevance of landownership for the wind energy expansion in Germany	39
Beyond public acceptance: Towards systemic societal responsiveness of net zero infrastructures	39
What influences public acceptability of sustainable energy policies? The crucial role of funding and who benefits	39
Strengthening the foundations of energy justice scholarship: What can philosophy contribute?	39
Diversify or die: Strategy options for oil majors in the sustainable energy transition	39
Engaged minority or quiet majority? Social intentions and actions related to offshore wind energy development in the United States	38
In the shadow of nuclear dependency: Competing pathways and the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in France	38
Land acquisition, renewable energy development, and livelihood transformation in rural Kenya: The case of the Kipeto wind energy project	38
Uneven transitions and disparate mobility patterns for South Africa’s electric paratransit	38
From pilot to reform: Institutional change through distributed solar experimentation in China	38
Cursed forever? Exploring socio-economic effects of nuclear power plant closures across nine communities in the United States	38
Models like heroes? Making Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) ready for deep decarbonization and a socio-economic transformation	38
Still muddling through: Local sustainability leaders and energy efficiency in rental units	38
Public perceptions of heat decarbonisation in Great Britain: Awareness, values and the social circle effect	37

Hydrogen economies and energy futures: A new Australian dream?	37
Green recovery or fossil lock-in? Assessing sustainability and energy transition pathways in major economies	37
Preferences and perceived barriers to pursuing energy sovereignty and renewable energy: A tribal nations perspective	37
Framing a gender transformative post-coal future for just transition: A feminist manifesto	37
Getting stakeholders aboard for offshore wind decommissioning: A qualitative study on end-of-life challenges in Belgium	37
Energy systems for Brazil's Amazon: Could renewable energy improve Indigenous livelihoods and save forest ecosystems?	36
The role of electric vehicle-to-X in net zero energy systems: A comprehensive review	36
India's state-led electricity transition: A review of techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives	36
People, priorities, and path dependencies: Governance lessons for demand-side flexibility in Great Britain's decarbonising electricity system	36
Sustainable design of multiscale CO2 electrolysis: A value sensitive design-based approach	36
Visual observation or oral communication? The effect of social learning on solar photovoltaic adoption intention in rural China	36
Participation and sensemaking in electric vehicle field trials: A study of fleet vehicle-to-grid in Australia	36
Firewood, four wheelers, and chest freezers: The importance of modern energy to Alaska Native subsistence in Yedatene Na’	35
Hedgehogs, foxes, blueprints, and skeletons: Untangling the murky complexity of theoretical and conceptual frameworks	35
Exploring district heating and cooling cultures, a systematic literature review	35
Opinion poles: Polarised views on energy developments in Canada's oil province	35
Corrigendum to “making space for environmental justice in renewable energy planning” [energy research & social science volume 118 (2024) 103806]	35
Rethinking the position of natural gas in a low-carbon energy transition	35
Gendered impacts of oil price shocks: analyzing women's labor force participation in petrostates	34
Shockingly cold and electricity-dependent in a rich context: Energy poor households in Norway	34
Extending the prebound effect: the gap between healthy and actual energy consumption among low-income households in the global south	34
Harnessing the sun for agriculture: Pathways to the successful expansion of Agrivoltaic systems in East Africa	34
The smart meets the conventional: Media storylines and societal frames on the energy action of housing cooperatives	34
Imagining a hydrogen economy: From grand technological utopia to enabler of the energy transition in three waves since the 1970s	34
Missing the mark: Avoiding community misengagement in large-scale solar development	34
Potentials and challenges of artificial intelligence-supported greenwashing detection in the energy sector	34
Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands	34
Climate action or distraction? Exploring investor initiatives and implications for unextractable fossil fuels	34
Civic activism and petition politics in energy transitions: Discursive tactics, networking, and media mobilization in an anti-nuclear movement in China	33
Household and non-household factors influencing multidimensional energy poverty in Bangladesh: Demographics, urbanization and regional differentiation via a multilevel modeling approach	33
When energy justice is contested: A systematic review of a decade of research on Sweden's conflicted energy landscape	33
Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies	33
Thinking, doing, organising: Prefiguring just and sustainable energy systems via collective prosumer ecosystems in Europe	33
Towards fair, just and equitable energy ecosystems through smart monitoring of household-scale biogas plants in Kenya	33
The links and entanglements of energy vulnerability: Unpacking the consequences of the energy crisis in Denmark	33
Designing bio-based value chains for social justice: The potential of Capability Sensitive Design	33
The 2022 energy and inflationary crises: Data, experiences and opinions of Spanish energy vulnerable households	33
Mainstreaming gender in energy design practice: Insights from companies operating in sub-Saharan Africa's energy sector	33
AI-driven energy futures: Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries in the tech industry	32
Integrate and embrace or isolate and hide? Using Q-method to understand how to incorporate large-scale solar in rural Nova Scotia, Canada	32
The market will save the day: White house narratives on liquefied natural gas exports to the European Union	32
“Act local, Impact global”: Mapping the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in Greece and advancing social engagement planning processes	32
The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement	32
Disruptions and energy demand: How Finnish households responded to the energy crisis of 2022	32
“Do you think that coal will finish?”: The (Im)possibilities of living with and without coal in a central Indian coalfield	32
Enablers or barriers: The multifaceted tales of power generation companies in China's energy transition	32
What is energy literacy? Responding to vulnerability in Philadelphia's energy ecologies	31
Energy governance as a commons: Engineering alternative socio-technical configurations	31
Public risk perceptions of shale gas development: A comprehensive review	31
Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition	31
Triggering resistance: Contesting the injustices of solar park development in India	31
Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage	31
Acceptance in progress: Navigating the transition of nuclear power perception from a long-term study in China	31
Concentrated solar power plants: A critical review of regional dynamics and operational parameters	31
Taboos, toilets and biogas: Socio-technical pathways to acceptance of a sustainable household technology	31
Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays	31
Why are charging stations associated with electric vehicle adoption? Untangling effects in three United States metropolitan areas	30
Much broader than health: Surveying the diverse co-benefits of energy demand reduction in Europe	30
Stop burning garbage! Exploring an anti-waste-to-energy social movement and its effects on local politics in Spain	30
Why energy models should integrate social and environmental factors: Assessing user needs, omission impacts, and real-word accuracy in the European Union	30
From theory to practice: Supporting industrial decarbonization and energy cooperation in Austria	30
Moving beyond opportunity narratives in COVID-19 green recoveries: A comparative analysis of public investment plans in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom	30
Opportunity, ideal or distraction? Exploring stakeholder perceptions of tackling energy poverty and vulnerability among older Australians	30
Unveiling the power of social norms interventions: Investigating energy savings behavior in an Italian energy cooperative	30
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains	29
The just transition fund – Did the European Union learn from Europe's past transition experiences?	29
Just energy imaginaries? Examining realities of solar development on Pennsylvania's farmland	29
Energy transitions on European islands: Exploring technical scenarios, markets and policy proposals in Denmark, Portugal and the United Kingdom	29
What does Agrivoltaics mean? A study on social representations shared by experts and the press in Italy	29
Enabling equitable energy access for Mozambique? Heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Maputo's growing urban periphery	29
Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure	29
Embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power	29
“Become a Gas Leak Detective!” Evaluating a multigenerational citizen science program for connecting distribution pipelines to energy justice	29
Diverging paths, converging goals: Framing crisis to kairos in Bill Gates's and Greta Thunberg's climate discourse	28
Explaining climate change policy inertia: Policymaker perspectives on building energy efficiency in the United Kingdom	28
Plugging in with neighbours: Defining the social dimension of electric vehicle charging in the Netherlands	28
Small hydropower, large obstacle? Exploring land use conflict, Indigenous opposition and acceptance in the Norwegian Arctic	28
Best of times, worst of times: record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequality	28
A History of Energy and Societal Scenarios for a World in Transition: Fifty Years of Personal Experience with Shell and Other Organisations	28
Reimagining net metering: A polycentric model for equitable solar adoption in the United States	28
A political economy analysis of the electricity sector in Côte d'Ivoire	28
“Fixing” the nuclear waste problem? The new political economy of spent fuel management in the United States	28
Social perspectives of carbon capture, transportation, utilization, and storage in Switzerland	28
Wasted expertise: Why retrofit should include residents	28
Technology, people, and place in microgrids: Addressing perceptions and engagement challenges for a rural Australian town	28
Advancing theories on the scalar complexities of Green Sacrifice Zones	28
Trading cozy old homes for chilly new ones: How experiences and beliefs guide housing modernization in Northern Pakistan	28
Why is it still too warm or cold in my house? Examining the relationships between energy efficient capital and household energy insecurity	28
Evidence-based climate impact: A financial product framework	28
Modelling governance for a successful electricity sector decarbonisation	28
Benchmarking and tailoring electric vehicle policies to stimulate adoption	27
Making energy justice work for women in rural sub-Saharan Africa: A quantitative diagnostic from Benin, Senegal, and Togo	27
How can energy prosumerism align with sufficiency and justice principles? A typology for policymakers, researchers and practitioners	27
The ontological dimension of energy security in Guatemala: Towards energy systems from below and with the Earth	27
Pumping up adoption: The role of policy awareness in explaining willingness to adopt heat pumps in Canada	27