Energy Research & Social Science

Article	Citations
Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas	294
The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach	260
Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions	227
Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation	223
An outlook on the global development of renewable and sustainable energy at the time of COVID-19	220
When pandemics impact economies and climate change: Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on oil and electricity demand in China	215
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options	213
Just transition: A conceptual review	206
Of renewable energy, energy democracy, and sustainable development: A roadmap to accelerate the energy transition in developing countries	205
Analysis of the electricity demand trends amidst the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic	202
Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies	188
Heat pumps and our low-carbon future: A comprehensive review	168
The impact of different COVID-19 containment measures on electricity consumption in Europe	168
Analysis of mobility trends during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic: Exploring the impacts on global aviation and travel in selected cities	165
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research	164
What opportunities could the COVID-19 outbreak offer for sustainability transitions research on electricity and mobility?	163
Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future	157
The new oil? The geopolitics and international governance of hydrogen	142
The role of energy democracy and energy citizenship for participatory energy transitions: A comprehensive review	137
Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there	136
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology	136
Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics	129
Sociotechnical matters: Reviewing and integrating science and technology studies with energy social science	121
The Green New Deal in the United States: What it is and how to pay for it	119
Coronavirus comes home? Energy use, home energy management, and the social-psychological factors of COVID-19	119

Decarbonizing the iron and steel industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	115
A historical turning point? Early evidence on how the Russia-Ukraine war changes public support for clean energy policies	109
Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework	109
People in transitions: Energy citizenship, prosumerism and social movements in Europe	109
European energy politics after Ukraine: The road ahead	107
Russia's war on Ukraine, European energy policy responses & implications for sustainable transformations	106
Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review	105
The interaction between humans and buildings for energy efficiency: A critical review	99
Do renewable energy communities deliver energy justice? Exploring insights from 71 European cases	98
Emergency measures to protect energy consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic: A global review and critical analysis	98
Just energy transitions to low carbon economies: A review of the concept and its effects on labour and income	92
COVID-19 energy sector responses in Africa: A review of preliminary government interventions	91
The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health	89
What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions	88
Grand Narratives for sustainable mobility: A conceptual review	85
Intersectionality and energy transitions: A review of gender, social equity and low-carbon energy	85
Unpacking the right-populist threat to climate action: Poland's pro-governmental media on energy transition and climate change	84
A just transition for whom? Politics, contestation, and social identity in the disruption of coal in the Powder River Basin	83
Toward feminist energy systems: Why adding women and solar panels is not enough✰	83
Beyond the EVent horizon: Battery waste, recycling, and sustainability in the United Kingdom electric vehicle transition	82
A meta-analysis of residential PV adoption: the important role of perceived benefits, intentions and antecedents in solar energy acceptance	81
Is peer-to-peer electricity trading empowering users? Evidence on motivations and roles in a prosumer business model trial in Australia	78
Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave: A meta-theoretical framework integrating responsible innovation, social practices, and energy justice	77
Guides or gatekeepers? Incumbent-oriented transition intermediaries in a low-carbon era	77
Three sides to every story: Gender perspectives in energy transition pathways in Canada, Kenya and Spain	77
Pulling up the carbon ladder? Decarbonization, dependence, and third-country risks from the European carbon border adjustment mechanism	76
The good, the bad and the ugly: An overview of the sustainability of blockchain technology	75
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems: Explaining the perpetuation of coal power in Japan	75
Just transitions: Histories and futures in a post-COVID world	75
Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin	74
Energy justice from the bottom up: A capability approach to community acceptance of wind energy in Mexico	73
Financing renewable energy development: Insights from 55 countries	71
SDGs in action: A novel framework for assessing energy projects against the sustainable development goals	71
What prevents us from taking low-carbon actions? A comprehensive review of influencing factors affecting low-carbon behaviors	71
Towards impactful energy justice research: Transforming the power of academic engagement	70
Biofuels, environmental sustainability, and food security: A review of 51 countries	69
Distributional disparities in residential rooftop solar potential and penetration in four cities in the United States	68
Rethinking community empowerment in the energy transformation: A critical review of the definitions, drivers and outcomes	67
Destined for decline? Examining nuclear energy from a technological innovation systems perspective	67
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives: A review	67
Why hate carbon taxes? Machine learning evidence on the roles of personal responsibility, trust, revenue recycling, and other factors across 23 European countries	66
Canada's Green New Deal: Forging the socio-political foundations of climate resilient infrastructure?	66
Bitcoin’s energy consumption is underestimated: A market dynamics approach	66
Reviewing the opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the digitalization of energy	65
Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy	64
A crude future? COVID-19s challenges for oil demand, supply and prices	64
Extreme energy poverty in the urban peripheries of Romania and Israel: Policy, planning and infrastructure	63
Beyond instrumentalism: Broadening the understanding of social innovation in socio-technical energy systems	63
Energy poverty in developing countries: A review of the concept and its measurements	63
Scale, history and justice in community wind energy: An empirical review	63

Governing the dark side of renewable energy: A typology of global displacements	63
When renewable energy, empowerment, and entrepreneurship connect: Measuring energy policy effectiveness in 230 countries	63
Proximities of energy justice: contesting community energy and austerity in England	62
Identifying double energy vulnerability: A systematic and narrative review of groups at-risk of energy and transport poverty in the global north	61
Model-based policymaking or policy-based modelling? How energy models and energy policy interact	59
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains	59
Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries	58
Unlocking the value of digitalization for the European energy transition: A typology of innovative business models	58
Effective policies to overcome barriers in the development of smart cities	57
Invisible energy poverty? Analysing housing costs in Central and Eastern Europe	57
Implications of poorly designed climate policy on energy poverty: Global reflections on the current surge in energy prices	57
When East meets West: Understanding residents’ home energy management system adoption intention and willingness to pay in Japan and the United States	57
The energy futures we want: A research and policy agenda for energy transitions	56
Actors, objectives, context: A framework of the political economy of energy and climate policy applied to India, Indonesia, and Vietnam	55
Is green a Pan-African colour? Mapping African renewable energy policies and transitions in 34 countries	55
Climate-friendly but socially rejected energy-transition pathways: The integration of techno-economic and socio-technical approaches in the Nordic-Baltic region	55
Transferring awareness into action: A meta-analysis of the behavioral drivers of energy transitions in Germany, Austria, Finland, Morocco, Jordan and Iran	55
Decarbonizing the oil refining industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	54
The COVID-19 crisis deepens the gulf between leaders and laggards in the global energy transition	53
COVID-19 and the academy: It is time for going digital	53
White knights, or horsemen of the apocalypse? Prospects for Big Oil to align emissions with a 1.5 °C pathway	53
A framework for ‘right to energy’ to meet UN SDG7: Policy implications to meet basic human energy needs, eradicate energy poverty, enhance energy justice, and uphold energy democracy	53
Conceptualising restorative justice in the energy Transition: Changing the perspectives of fossil fuels	53
The hidden costs of energy and mobility: A global meta-analysis and research synthesis of electricity and transport externalities	53
Oil, fisheries and coastal communities: A review of impacts on the environment, livelihoods, space and governance	52
Just electrification: Imagining the justice dimensions of energy access and addressing energy poverty	52
Double energy vulnerability: Spatial intersections of domestic and transport energy poverty in England	52
Blending new and old in sustainability transitions: Technological alignment between fossil fuels and biofuels in Norwegian coastal shipping	52
To eat and not to heat? Energy poverty and income inequality in Italian regions	51
Mitigating inequality with emissions? Exploring energy justice and financing transitions to low carbon energy in Indonesia	50
The troubled path to ending darkness: Energy injustice encounters in Malawi’s off-grid solar market	50
Green New Deal proposals: Comparing emerging transformational climate policies at multiple scales	50
Co-production in the wind energy sector: A systematic literature review of public engagement beyond invited stakeholder participation	49
From consultation toward co-production in science and policy: A critical systematic review of participatory climate and energy initiatives	49
Regime resistance and accommodation: Toward a neo-Gramscian perspective on energy transitions	49
Reconciliation through renewable energy? A survey of Indigenous communities, involvement, and peoples in Canada	49
Pluralizing energy justice: Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives	49
Are rapid and inclusive energy and climate transitions oxymorons? Towards principles of responsible acceleration	49
Towards a theory of just transition: A neo-Gramscian understanding of how to shift development pathways to zero poverty and zero carbon	48
How governments, universities, and companies contribute to renewable energy development? A municipal innovation policy perspective of the triple helix	48
Is demand side response a woman's work? Domestic labour and electricity shifting in low income homes in the United Kingdom	48
Towards a bioenergy transition in Italy? Exploring regional stakeholder perspectives towards the Gela and Porto Marghera biorefineries	47
Addressing gender in energy studies	47
Enabling the transition to a fossil-free steel sector: The conditions for technology transfer for hydrogen-based steelmaking in Europe	46
Mixed feelings on wind energy: Affective imagery and local concern driving social acceptance in Switzerland	46
The political economy of air pollution: Local development, sustainability, and political incentives in China	46
Residential energy use and energy-saving of older adults: A case from Japan, the fastest-aging country	45
Clean cooking for all? A critical review of behavior, stakeholder engagement, and adoption for the global diffusion of improved cookstoves	45
Banking on coal? Drivers of demand for Chinese overseas investments in coal in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Vietnam	44
The Jevons paradox unravelled: A multi-level typology of rebound effects and mechanisms	44
Caste, class and gender in determining access to energy: A critical review of LPG adoption in India	44
Energy justice discourses in citizen deliberations on systems flexibility in the United Kingdom: Vulnerability, compensation and empowerment	43
Will consumers really pay for green electricity? Comparing stated and revealed preferences for residential programs in the United States	43
Liquefied natural gas expansion plans in Germany: The risk of gas lock-in under energy transitions	43
Political ecologies of the post-mining landscape: Activism, resistance, and legal struggles over Kalimantan's coal mines	43
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	43
The persistence of high energy burdens: A bibliometric analysis of vulnerability, poverty, and exclusion in the United States	43
Interplay between low-carbon energy transitions and national security: An analysis of policy integration and coherence in Estonia, Finland and Scotland	43
Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe	42
A typology for unpacking the diversity of social innovation in energy transitions	42
From the geopolitics of oil and gas to the geopolitics of the energy transition: Is there a role for European supermajors?	42
Does natural gas fuel civil war? Rethinking energy security, international relations, and fossil-fuel conflict	42
The dark side of energy poverty: Who is underconsuming in Spain and why?	42
The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling	42
Hot stuff: Research and policy principles for heat decarbonisation through smart electrification	41
A hybrid perspective on energy transition pathways: Is hydrogen the key for Norway?	41
What really drives the deployment of renewable energy? A global assessment of 118 countries	41
Which policy mixes are best for decarbonising passenger cars? Simulating interactions among taxes, subsidies and regulations for the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, China, and India	41
Keep it local and bird-friendly: Exploring the social acceptance of wind energy in Switzerland, Estonia, and Ukraine	41
Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses	41
Energy citizenship in the Netherlands: The complexities of public engagement in a large-scale energy transition	41
European island imaginaries: Examining the actors, innovations, and renewable energy transitions of 8 islands	41
What do energy modellers know? An ethnography of epistemic values and knowledge models	40
Indigenous environmental defenders and the legacy of Macli-ing Dulag: Anti-dam dissent, assassinations, and protests in the making of Philippine energyscape	40
Beyond the beach: Tradeoffs in tourism and recreation at the first offshore wind farm in the United States	40
Acceptance through inclusion? Political and economic participation and the acceptance of local renewable energy projects in Switzerland	39
Low-carbon lock-in? Exploring transformative innovation policy and offshore wind energy pathways in the Netherlands	39
Conflicts between economic and low-carbon reorientation processes: Insights from a contextual analysis of evolving company strategies in the United Kingdom petrochemical industry (1970–2021)	39
Energy poverty in the COVID-19 era: Mapping global responses in light of momentum for the right to energy	39
China's imaginary of ecological civilization: A resonance between the state-led discourse and sociocultural dynamics	39

What about citizens? A literature review of citizen engagement in sustainability transitions research	39
What drives electric vehicle adoption? Insights from a systematic review on European transport actors and behaviours	39
Political economy of just transition: Disparate impact of coal mine closure on state-owned and private coal workers in Inner Mongolia, China	39
Energy transition in Brazil: Is there a role for multilevel governance in a centralized energy regime?	38
Nudging and boosting for equity? Towards a behavioural economics of energy justice	38
Women’s work is never done: Lifting the gendered burden of firewood collection and household energy use in Kenya	38
New clean energy communities in polycentric settings: Four avenues for future research	38
Digitalisation, sustainable industrialisation and digital rebound – Asking the right questions for a strategic research agenda	38
Of jobs, skills, and values: Exploring rural household energy use and solar photovoltaics in poverty alleviation areas in China	37
The global energy transition and place attachment in coal mining communities: Implications for heavily industrialized landscapes	37
Empowering energy citizenship among the energy poor	37
What is the quality of participatory renewable energy planning in Europe? A comparative analysis of innovative practices in 25 projects	37
Racial inequity in household energy efficiency and carbon emissions in the United States: An emissions paradox	37
Which households are energy insecure? An empirical analysis of race, housing conditions, and energy burdens in the United States	37
Climate change strategic narratives in the United Kingdom: Emergency, Extinction, Effectiveness	37
Exploring the re-emergence of industrial policy: Perceptions regarding low-carbon energy transitions in Germany, the United Kingdom and Denmark	37
A systematic review of social innovation and community energy transitions	37
Distorting the view of our climate future: The misuse and abuse of climate pathways and scenarios	37
Race and the politics of energy transitions	37
Individuals, collectives, and energy transition: Analysing the motivators and barriers of European decarbonisation	37
Rethinking the Multi-level Perspective for energy transitions: From regime life-cycle to explanatory typology of transition pathways	36
Is hydropower worth it? Exploring amazonian resettlement, human development and environmental costs with the Belo Monte project in Brazil	36
Growing community energy initiatives from the bottom up: Simulating the role of behavioural attitudes and leadership in the Netherlands	36
Synthesizing value sensitive design, responsible research and innovation, and energy justice: A conceptual review	36
Who wants to get involved? Determining citizen willingness to participate in German renewable energy cooperatives	36
Better poison is the cure? Critically examining fossil fuel companies, climate change framing, and corporate sustainability reports	36
Why do low-income urban dwellers reject energy technologies? Exploring the socio-cultural acceptance of solar adoption in Mumbai and Cape Town	36
Taking it outside: Exploring social opposition to 21 early-stage experiments in radical climate interventions	36
The future of lithium-ion batteries: Exploring expert conceptions, market trends, and price scenarios	36
Young, poor, and sick: The public health threat of energy poverty for children in Ireland	36
State versus market in China's low-carbon energy transition: An institutional perspective	35
Public opinion on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons: The attitudinal nexus in the United States	35
Evidence behind the narrative: Critically reviewing the social impact of energy communities in Europe	35
The (in)justices of smart local energy systems: A systematic review, integrated framework, and future research agenda	35
Renewing the future: Excluded imaginaries in the global energy transition	35
Energy transitions in a time of intersecting precarities: From reductive environmentalism to antiracist praxis	35
Household energy resilience: Shifting perspectives to reveal opportunities for renewable energy futures in affluent contexts	35
Moving beyond opportunity narratives in COVID-19 green recoveries: A comparative analysis of public investment plans in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom	35
The rise of solar home systems in sub-Saharan Africa: Examining gender, class, and sustainability	35
When controversies cascade: Analysing the dynamics of public engagement and conflict in the Netherlands and Switzerland through “controversy spillover”	35
Changing climate for populists? Examining the influence of radical-right political parties on low-carbon energy transitions in Western Europe	35
A critical review of energy democracy: A failure to deliver justice?	35
When energy justice encounters authoritarian environmentalism: The case of clean heating energy transitions in rural China	35
Twin transitions of decarbonisation and digitalisation: A historical perspective on energy and information in European economies	35
Farmers vs. lakers: Agriculture, amenity, and community in predicting opposition to United States wind energy development	35
How will COVID-19 impact renewable energy in India? Exploring challenges, lessons and emerging opportunities	35
It’s all about community: On the interplay of social capital, social needs, and environmental concern in sustainable community action	35
The less you burn, the more we earn: The role of social and political trust on energy-saving behaviour in Europe	35
Act locally, transition globally: Grassroots resilience, local politics, and five municipalities in the United States with 100% renewable electricity	34
How can local energy communities promote sustainable development in European cities?	34
Towards a CO2-neutral steel industry: Justice aspects of CO2 capture and storage, biomass- and green hydrogen-based emission reductions	34
Assessing co-creation in strategic planning for urban energy transitions	34
Policy uncertainty and renewable energy: Exploring the implications for global energy transitions, energy security, and environmental risk management	34
The critical role of trust in experiencing and coping with energy poverty: Evidence from across Europe	34
What drives the solar energy transition? The effect of policies, incentives and behavior in a cross-country comparison	34
Of impacts, agents, and functions: An interdisciplinary meta-review of smart home energy management systems research	33
Digitalisation and social inclusion in multi-scalar smart energy transitions	33
Can authoritarian regimes achieve just energy transition? Evidence from China’s solar photovoltaic poverty alleviation initiative	33
COVID-19 and energy access: An opportunity or a challenge for the African continent?	33
World wars and the age of oil: Exploring directionality in deep energy transitions	32
Technical pathways to deep decarbonization in cities: Eight best practice case studies of transformational climate mitigation	32
Who is marginalized in energy justice? Amplifying community leader perspectives of energy transitions in Ghana	32
Transforming innovation for decarbonisation? Insights from combining complex systems and social practice perspectives	32
Fast track to failure? Energy transition minerals and the future of consultation and consent	32
Beyond states: Harnessing sub-national actors for the deep decarbonisation of cities, regions, and businesses	32
What shapes Norwegian wind power policy? Analysing the constructing forces of policymaking and emerging questions of energy justice	32
Energy access and pandemic-resilient livelihoods: The role of solar energy safety nets	32
Customer engagement strategies in retail electricity markets: A comprehensive and comparative review	32
The role of human influences on adoption and rejection of energy technology: A systematised critical review of the literature on household energy transitions	32
Exploring the cross-national variation in public support for climate policies in Europe: The role of quality of government and trust	32
Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: A place-based research agenda	32
Innovative but unjust? Analysing the opportunities and justice issues within positive energy districts in Europe	32
Preying on the poor? Opportunities and challenges for tackling the social and environmental threats of cryptocurrencies for vulnerable and low-income communities	31
Anarchy, war, or revolt? Radical perspectives for climate protection, insurgency and civil disobedience in a low-carbon era	31
Social identity in the energy transition: an analysis of the “Stop Adani Convoy” to explore social-political conflict in Australia	31
Alternative energy imaginaries: Implications for energy research, policy integration and the transformation of energy systems	31
Green hope or red herring? Examining consumer perceptions of peer-to-peer energy trading in the United Kingdom	31
A pollution paradox? The political economy of environmental inspection and air pollution in China	31
Car sharing and transformations in households travel patterns: Insights from emerging proto-practices in Norway	31
Energy profiles among urban elite households in Mozambique: Explaining the persistence of charcoal in urban areas	31
A review of business models for access to affordable and clean energy in Africa: Do they deliver social, economic, and environmental value?	31
Beyond the discourse of denial: The reproduction of fossil fuel hegemony in Australia	30
When I was your age: Generational effects on long-run residential energy consumption in Italy	30
A framework for social tipping in climate change mitigation: What we can learn about social tipping dynamics from the chlorofluorocarbons phase-out	30
What are the effects of energy poverty and interventions to ameliorate it on people's health and well-being?: A scoping review with an equity lens	30
Making shipping more carbon-friendly? Exploring ship energy efficiency management plans in legislation and practice	30
Green hydrogen value chains in the industrial sector—Geopolitical and market implications	30
Knowledge politics, vulnerability and recognition-based justice: Public participation in renewable energy transitions in India	30
The politics of climate finance: Consensus and partisanship in designing green state investment banks in the United Kingdom and Australia	30
What is ‘local’ about Smart Local Energy Systems? Emerging stakeholder geographies of decentralised energy in the United Kingdom	30
Is an ageing population impacting energy use in the European Union? Drivers, lifestyles, and consumption patterns of elderly households	30
Understanding pollution behavior among farmers: Exploring the influence of social networks and political identity on reducing straw burning in China	30
Energy poverty in Canada: Prevalence, social and spatial distribution, and implications for research and policy	30
Rethinking the position of natural gas in a low-carbon energy transition	30
Low-carbon retrofits in social housing: Energy efficiency, multidimensional energy poverty, and domestic comfort strategies in southern Europe	30