Energy Research & Social Science

Article	Citations
When pandemics impact economies and climate change: Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on oil and electricity demand in China	193
Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions	191
An outlook on the global development of renewable and sustainable energy at the time of COVID-19	187
The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach	180
Analysis of the electricity demand trends amidst the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic	171
Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas	161
The impact of different COVID-19 containment measures on electricity consumption in Europe	146
What opportunities could the COVID-19 outbreak offer for sustainability transitions research on electricity and mobility?	146
Analysis of mobility trends during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic: Exploring the impacts on global aviation and travel in selected cities	144
Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation	138
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research	125
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology	119
The limits of energy sufficiency: A review of the evidence for rebound effects and negative spillovers from behavioural change	118
Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies	118
Of renewable energy, energy democracy, and sustainable development: A roadmap to accelerate the energy transition in developing countries	115
Energy poverty and social relations: A capabilities approach	112
Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future	108
Coronavirus comes home? Energy use, home energy management, and the social-psychological factors of COVID-19	108
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options	108
The misallocation of climate research funding	107
Heat pumps and our low-carbon future: A comprehensive review	105
The Green New Deal in the United States: What it is and how to pay for it	104
Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there	91
Sociotechnical matters: Reviewing and integrating science and technology studies with energy social science	91
Emergency measures to protect energy consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic: A global review and critical analysis	87

The new oil? The geopolitics and international governance of hydrogen	86
What drives home solar PV uptake? Subsidies, peer effects and visibility in Sweden	83
Just transition: A conceptual review	83
COVID-19 energy sector responses in Africa: A review of preliminary government interventions	77
Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review	76
Stranded assets and stranded resources: Implications for climate change mitigation and global sustainable development	76
The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health	75
Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics	75
Elite power in low-carbon transitions: A critical and interdisciplinary review	73
The interaction between humans and buildings for energy efficiency: A critical review	73
Energy justice revisited: A critical review on the philosophical and political origins of equality	73
Women’s leadership in renewable transformation, energy justice and energy democracy: Redistributing power	73
Flexibility capital and flexibility justice in smart energy systems	70
Justice, social exclusion and indigenous opposition: A case study of wind energy development on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico	70
Demand-side solutions for climate mitigation: Bottom-up drivers of household energy behavior change in the Netherlands and Spain	69
What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions	68
The role of energy democracy and energy citizenship for participatory energy transitions: A comprehensive review	68
People in transitions: Energy citizenship, prosumerism and social movements in Europe	67
Unpacking the right-populist threat to climate action: Poland's pro-governmental media on energy transition and climate change	65
Who is buying electric vehicles in California? Characterising early adopter heterogeneity and forecasting market diffusion	65
Community energy meets smart grids: Reviewing goals, structure, and roles in Virtual Power Plants in Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands	64
Just transitions: Histories and futures in a post-COVID world	64
Emotions and fuel poverty: The lived experience of social housing tenants in the United Kingdom	63
How deep is incumbency? A ‘configuring fields’ approach to redistributing and reorienting power in socio-material change	63
Is peer-to-peer electricity trading empowering users? Evidence on motivations and roles in a prosumer business model trial in Australia	62
“We cannot stop cooking”: Stove stacking, seasonality and the risky practices of household cookstove transitions in Nigeria	60
Grand Narratives for sustainable mobility: A conceptual review	60
Renewable energy injustice: The socio-environmental implications of renewable energy consumption	60
Energy poverty goes south? Understanding the costs of energy poverty with the index of vulnerable homes in Spain	59
Beyond the EVent horizon: Battery waste, recycling, and sustainability in the United Kingdom electric vehicle transition	59
Expanding the scope and implications of energy research: A guide to key themes and concepts from the Social Sciences and Humanities	58
Is bio-energy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) feasible? The contested authority of integrated assessment modeling	58
Mind the gap: A social sciences review of energy efficiency	57
Age matters: Ageing and household energy demand in the United States	57
Waves of disruption in clean energy transitions: Sociotechnical dimensions of system disruption in Germany and the United Kingdom	56
Community renewable energy: What does it do? Walker and Devine-Wright (2008) ten years on	56
Rethinking the future low-carbon city: Carbon neutrality, green design, and sustainability tensions in the making of Masdar City	56
Cryptodamages: Monetary value estimates of the air pollution and human health impacts of cryptocurrency mining	55
A just transition for whom? Politics, contestation, and social identity in the disruption of coal in the Powder River Basin	55
Three sides to every story: Gender perspectives in energy transition pathways in Canada, Kenya and Spain	54
Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework	54
Energy and behaviour at home: A review of intervention methods and practices	53
A crude future? COVID-19s challenges for oil demand, supply and prices	53
Happier with less? Members of European environmental grassroots initiatives reconcile lower carbon footprints with higher life satisfaction and income increases	53
Financing renewable energy development: Insights from 55 countries	53
Energy justice from the bottom up: A capability approach to community acceptance of wind energy in Mexico	53
Canada's Green New Deal: Forging the socio-political foundations of climate resilient infrastructure?	52
SDGs in action: A novel framework for assessing energy projects against the sustainable development goals	51
What are sources of carbon lock-in in energy-intensive industry? A case study into Dutch chemicals production	51
The past, present and uncertain future of community energy in Denmark: Critically reviewing and conceptualising citizen ownership	51

Guides or gatekeepers? Incumbent-oriented transition intermediaries in a low-carbon era	51
Barriers to onshore wind energy implementation: A systematic review	51
The good, the bad and the ugly: An overview of the sustainability of blockchain technology	50
The political economy of national climate policy: Architectures of constraint and a typology of countries	50
Towards a new social science research agenda for hydrogen transitions: Social practices, energy justice, and place attachment	50
Biofuels, environmental sustainability, and food security: A review of 51 countries	50
Towards impactful energy justice research: Transforming the power of academic engagement	49
Bitcoin mining: A global review of energy and power demand	49
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems: Explaining the perpetuation of coal power in Japan	49
Toward feminist energy systems: Why adding women and solar panels is not enough✰	49
Just energy transitions to low carbon economies: A review of the concept and its effects on labour and income	49
Extreme energy poverty in the urban peripheries of Romania and Israel: Policy, planning and infrastructure	48
Is green a Pan-African colour? Mapping African renewable energy policies and transitions in 34 countries	48
Drivers, enablers, and barriers to prosumerism in Bangladesh: A sustainable solution to energy poverty?	48
When renewable energy, empowerment, and entrepreneurship connect: Measuring energy policy effectiveness in 230 countries	47
Do renewable energy communities deliver energy justice? Exploring insights from 71 European cases	46
A historical turning point? Early evidence on how the Russia-Ukraine war changes public support for clean energy policies	46
Intersectionality and energy transitions: A review of gender, social equity and low-carbon energy	46
Mediating household energy transitions through co-design in urban Kenya, Uganda and South Africa	46
Bitcoin’s energy consumption is underestimated: A market dynamics approach	46
Why hate carbon taxes? Machine learning evidence on the roles of personal responsibility, trust, revenue recycling, and other factors across 23 European countries	45
Is the just transition socially accepted? Energy history, place, and support for coal and solar in Illinois, Texas, and Vermont	45
Being forced to skimp on energy needs: A new look at energy poverty in Greece	44
Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave: A meta-theoretical framework integrating responsible innovation, social practices, and energy justice	44
Beyond instrumentalism: Broadening the understanding of social innovation in socio-technical energy systems	44
Destined for decline? Examining nuclear energy from a technological innovation systems perspective	44
Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin	43
Invisible energy poverty? Analysing housing costs in Central and Eastern Europe	43
Energy materiality: A conceptual review of multi-disciplinary approaches	43
European energy politics after Ukraine: The road ahead	43
The COVID-19 crisis deepens the gulf between leaders and laggards in the global energy transition	43
Scale, history and justice in community wind energy: An empirical review	43
What's next for the European coal heartland? Exploring the future of coal as presented in German, Polish and Czech press	43
Distributional disparities in residential rooftop solar potential and penetration in four cities in the United States	42
Reviewing the opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the digitalization of energy	42
Governing the dark side of renewable energy: A typology of global displacements	41
COVID-19 and the academy: It is time for going digital	41
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives: A review	41
Faring well in offshore wind power siting? Trust, engagement and process fairness in the United States	40
Just electrification: Imagining the justice dimensions of energy access and addressing energy poverty	40
Making demand side response happen: A review of barriers in commercial and public organisations	40
What prevents us from taking low-carbon actions? A comprehensive review of influencing factors affecting low-carbon behaviors	40
Moving beyond coal: Exploring and explaining the Powering Past Coal Alliance	40
Proximities of energy justice: contesting community energy and austerity in England	40
Model-based policymaking or policy-based modelling? How energy models and energy policy interact	40
The troubled path to ending darkness: Energy injustice encounters in Malawi’s off-grid solar market	39
Reframing policy for the energy efficiency challenge: Insights from housing retrofits in the United Kingdom	39
Household energy literacy: A critical review and a conceptual typology	39
Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries	39
Mixed feelings on wind energy: Affective imagery and local concern driving social acceptance in Switzerland	38
Decarbonizing the iron and steel industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	38
Reviewing the complexity of energy behavior: Technologies, analytical traditions, and household energy consumption data in the United States	38
What do consumers think of smart charging? Perceptions among actual and potential plug-in electric vehicle adopters in the United Kingdom	38
Testing the social, organizational, and governance factors for success in local low carbon energy initiatives	38
Clean cooking for all? A critical review of behavior, stakeholder engagement, and adoption for the global diffusion of improved cookstoves	38
White knights, or horsemen of the apocalypse? Prospects for Big Oil to align emissions with a 1.5 °C pathway	37
Towards a bioenergy transition in Italy? Exploring regional stakeholder perspectives towards the Gela and Porto Marghera biorefineries	37
Addressing gender in energy studies	37
Blending new and old in sustainability transitions: Technological alignment between fossil fuels and biofuels in Norwegian coastal shipping	37
Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses	37
Transferring awareness into action: A meta-analysis of the behavioral drivers of energy transitions in Germany, Austria, Finland, Morocco, Jordan and Iran	37
When East meets West: Understanding residents’ home energy management system adoption intention and willingness to pay in Japan and the United States	37
Double energy vulnerability: Spatial intersections of domestic and transport energy poverty in England	36
Effective policies to overcome barriers in the development of smart cities	36
The hidden costs of energy and mobility: A global meta-analysis and research synthesis of electricity and transport externalities	36
Individual or collective? Community investment, local taxes, and the social acceptance of wind energy in Switzerland	36
Megawatts mask impacts: Small hydropower and knowledge politics in the Puelwillimapu, Southern Chile	36
Credibility, communication, and climate change: How lifestyle inconsistency and do-gooder derogation impact decarbonization advocacy	36
Co-production in the wind energy sector: A systematic literature review of public engagement beyond invited stakeholder participation	36
From consultation toward co-production in science and policy: A critical systematic review of participatory climate and energy initiatives	36
Mitigating inequality with emissions? Exploring energy justice and financing transitions to low carbon energy in Indonesia	35
Actors, objectives, context: A framework of the political economy of energy and climate policy applied to India, Indonesia, and Vietnam	35
Exploring hybrid models for universal access to basic solar energy services in informal settlements: Case studies from South Africa and Zimbabwe	35
Letting the Gini out of the fuel poverty bottle? Correlating cold homes and income inequality in European Union countries	35
Energy justice discourses in citizen deliberations on systems flexibility in the United Kingdom: Vulnerability, compensation and empowerment	35
Revaluing the costs and benefits of energy efficiency: A systematic review	35
Green New Deal proposals: Comparing emerging transformational climate policies at multiple scales	34
Pulling up the carbon ladder? Decarbonization, dependence, and third-country risks from the European carbon border adjustment mechanism	34
Banking on coal? Drivers of demand for Chinese overseas investments in coal in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Vietnam	34
Dueling metaphors, fueling futures: “Bridge fuel” visions of coal and natural gas in the United States	34

The innovation and industry dynamics of technology phase-out in sustainability transitions: Insights from diversifying petroleum technology suppliers in Norway	34
Desirable or debatable? Putting Africa's decentralised solar energy futures in context	34
Reconciliation through renewable energy? A survey of Indigenous communities, involvement, and peoples in Canada	33
Can we hope for a collective shift in electric vehicle adoption? Testing salience and norm-based interventions in South Tyrol, Italy	33
Rethinking community empowerment in the energy transformation: A critical review of the definitions, drivers and outcomes	33
A meta-analysis of residential PV adoption: the important role of perceived benefits, intentions and antecedents in solar energy acceptance	33
Climate-friendly but socially rejected energy-transition pathways: The integration of techno-economic and socio-technical approaches in the Nordic-Baltic region	33
How governments, universities, and companies contribute to renewable energy development? A municipal innovation policy perspective of the triple helix	33
Are rapid and inclusive energy and climate transitions oxymorons? Towards principles of responsible acceleration	33
Can electric vehicle drivers be persuaded to eco-drive? A field study of feedback, gamification and financial rewards in Germany	32
Community tensions, participation, and local development: Factors affecting the spatial embeddedness of anaerobic digestion in Poland and the Czech Republic	32
Indigenous environmental defenders and the legacy of Macli-ing Dulag: Anti-dam dissent, assassinations, and protests in the making of Philippine energyscape	32
The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling	32
The social dimensions of smart meters in the United States: Demographics, privacy, and technology readiness	32
What do energy modellers know? An ethnography of epistemic values and knowledge models	32
Energy poverty in developing countries: A review of the concept and its measurements	32
The energy futures we want: A research and policy agenda for energy transitions	32
Promoting the polluters? The competing objectives of energy efficiency, pollutant emissions, and economic performance in Chinese municipalities	32
Smart technology needs smarter management: Disentangling the dynamics of digitalism in the governance of shared solar energy in Australia	32
COVID-19 and energy access: An opportunity or a challenge for the African continent?	32
Identifying double energy vulnerability: A systematic and narrative review of groups at-risk of energy and transport poverty in the global north	32
Social acceptance of distributed energy systems in Swiss, German, and Austrian energy transitions	31
Eskom and the rise of renewables: Regime-resistance, crisis and the strategy of incumbency in South Africa's electricity system	31
What is the quality of participatory renewable energy planning in Europe? A comparative analysis of innovative practices in 25 projects	31
Russia's war on Ukraine, European energy policy responses & implications for sustainable transformations	31
The rise of solar home systems in sub-Saharan Africa: Examining gender, class, and sustainability	31
Is demand side response a woman's work? Domestic labour and electricity shifting in low income homes in the United Kingdom	31
Solar electricity cultures: Household adoption dynamics and energy policy in Switzerland	31
To eat and not to heat? Energy poverty and income inequality in Italian regions	31
Will consumers really pay for green electricity? Comparing stated and revealed preferences for residential programs in the United States	31
European island imaginaries: Examining the actors, innovations, and renewable energy transitions of 8 islands	30
Individuals, collectives, and energy transition: Analysing the motivators and barriers of European decarbonisation	30
Beyond big data: Social media challenges and opportunities for understanding social perception of energy	30
The political economy of air pollution: Local development, sustainability, and political incentives in China	30
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	30
Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy	30
Unlocking the value of digitalization for the European energy transition: A typology of innovative business models	30
Industry, flexibility, and demand response: Applying German energy transition lessons in Chile	30
Comparing nuclear trajectories in Germany and the United Kingdom: From regimes to democracies in sociotechnical transitions and discontinuities	30
Elusive publics in energy projects: The politics of localness and energy democracy	29
Oil, fisheries and coastal communities: A review of impacts on the environment, livelihoods, space and governance	29
Localizing the energy transition: Town-level political and socio-economic drivers of clean energy in the United States	29
The Jevons paradox unravelled: A multi-level typology of rebound effects and mechanisms	29
Rethinking the Multi-level Perspective for energy transitions: From regime life-cycle to explanatory typology of transition pathways	29
Lost (and found) in Transition: Expert stakeholder insights on low-carbon energy transitions in Spain	29
Rethinking resilience: A cross-epistemic resilience framework for interdisciplinary energy research	29
The energy injustice of hydropower: Development, resettlement, and social exclusion at the Hongjiang and Wanmipo hydropower stations in China	29
Who should pay to support renewable electricity? Exploring regressive impacts, energy poverty and tariff equity	29
An energy leap? Business model innovation and intermediation in the ‘Energiesprong’ retrofit initiative	29
A contested transition toward a coal-free future: Advocacy coalitions and coal policy in the Czech Republic	29
When controversies cascade: Analysing the dynamics of public engagement and conflict in the Netherlands and Switzerland through “controversy spillover”	29
Energy poverty in the COVID-19 era: Mapping global responses in light of momentum for the right to energy	28
From utility demand side management to low-carbon transitions: Opportunities and challenges for energy efficiency governance in a new era	28
Expert perceptions of enhancing grid resilience with electric vehicles in the United States	28
Changing climate for populists? Examining the influence of radical-right political parties on low-carbon energy transitions in Western Europe	28
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	28
The ineffectiveness of efficiency: The paradoxical effects of state policy on energy consumption in the United States	28
Engaging men and women in energy production in Norway and the United Kingdom: The significance of social practices and gender relations	28
Hot stuff: Research and policy principles for heat decarbonisation through smart electrification	28
Car sharing and transformations in households travel patterns: Insights from emerging proto-practices in Norway	28
Cooler coalitions for a warmer planet: A review of political strategies for accelerating energy transitions	28
Act locally, transition globally: Grassroots resilience, local politics, and five municipalities in the United States with 100% renewable electricity	27
Socio-technical discourses of European electricity decarbonization: Contesting narrative credibility and legitimacy with quantitative story-telling	27
Green hope or red herring? Examining consumer perceptions of peer-to-peer energy trading in the United Kingdom	27
Digitalisation, sustainable industrialisation and digital rebound – Asking the right questions for a strategic research agenda	27
Political ecologies of the post-mining landscape: Activism, resistance, and legal struggles over Kalimantan's coal mines	27
Residential energy use and energy-saving of older adults: A case from Japan, the fastest-aging country	27
Climate change strategic narratives in the United Kingdom: Emergency, Extinction, Effectiveness	27
Caste, class and gender in determining access to energy: A critical review of LPG adoption in India	27
Social identity in the energy transition: an analysis of the “Stop Adani Convoy” to explore social-political conflict in Australia	27
Decarbonizing the oil refining industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	27
What really drives the deployment of renewable energy? A global assessment of 118 countries	27
Energy, equality and sustainability? European electricity cooperatives from a gender perspective	27
Unpacking ‘regime resistance’ in low-carbon transitions: The case of the British Capacity Market	27
Energy efficiency in industrial organizations––A cultural-institutional framework of decision making	27
Synthesizing value sensitive design, responsible research and innovation, and energy justice: A conceptual review	26
Low-carbon lock-in? Exploring transformative innovation policy and offshore wind energy pathways in the Netherlands	26
Nudging and boosting for equity? Towards a behavioural economics of energy justice	26
Are the pens working for justice? News media coverage of renewable energy involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada	26
In the light of what we cannot see: Exploring the interconnections between gender and electricity access	26
Energy profiles among urban elite households in Mozambique: Explaining the persistence of charcoal in urban areas	26
Prosumer communities as strategic allies for electric utilities: Exploring future decentralization trends in Switzerland	26
Pull the plug: How private commitment strategies can strengthen personal norms and promote energy-saving in the Netherlands	26
More alike than different: Profiles of high-income and low-income rooftop solar adopters in the United States	26
Beyond cost: Exploring fuel choices and the socio-cultural dynamics of liquefied petroleum gas stove adoption in Peru	26
State versus market in China's low-carbon energy transition: An institutional perspective	26
Instrument interactions and relationships in policy mixes: Achieving complementarity in building energy efficiency policies in New York, Sydney and Tokyo	26
Sharing the burden: Shifts in family time use, agency and gender dynamics after introduction of new cookstoves in rural Kenya	26
How will COVID-19 impact renewable energy in India? Exploring challenges, lessons and emerging opportunities	26
Liquefied natural gas expansion plans in Germany: The risk of gas lock-in under energy transitions	25
Decided or divided? An empirical analysis of the decision-making process of Dutch homeowners for energy renovation measures	25
Smoothing peaks and troughs: Intermediary practices to promote demand side response in smart grids	25
Of jobs, skills, and values: Exploring rural household energy use and solar photovoltaics in poverty alleviation areas in China	25
Energy bricolage in Northern Uganda: Rethinking energy geographies in Sub-Saharan Africa	25
Does natural gas fuel civil war? Rethinking energy security, international relations, and fossil-fuel conflict	25
Is community energy really non-existent in post-socialist Europe? Examining recent trends in 16 countries	25
Policy, politics and materiality across scales: A framework for understanding local government sustainable energy capacity applied in England	25
Anti-fossil frames: Examining narratives of the opposition to brown coal mining in the Czech Republic	25
New clean energy communities in polycentric settings: Four avenues for future research	25
Distorting the view of our climate future: The misuse and abuse of climate pathways and scenarios	24
Culture, conformity, and carbon? A multi-country analysis of heating and cooling practices in office buildings	24
Race and the politics of energy transitions	24
A pollution paradox? The political economy of environmental inspection and air pollution in China	24
Why do low-income urban dwellers reject energy technologies? Exploring the socio-cultural acceptance of solar adoption in Mumbai and Cape Town	24
Conceptualising restorative justice in the energy Transition: Changing the perspectives of fossil fuels	24
Young, poor, and sick: The public health threat of energy poverty for children in Ireland	24
The roles of the state and social licence to operate? Lessons from nuclear waste management in Finland, France, and Sweden	24
Which plug-in electric vehicle policies are best? A multi-criteria evaluation framework applied to Canada	24
Energy transitions in a time of intersecting precarities: From reductive environmentalism to antiracist praxis	24
Farmers vs. lakers: Agriculture, amenity, and community in predicting opposition to United States wind energy development	24
Which households are energy insecure? An empirical analysis of race, housing conditions, and energy burdens in the United States	24
Sensors, sense-making and sensitivities: UK household experiences with a feedback display on energy consumption and indoor environmental conditions	24
Why does the European Union produce biofuels? Examining consistency and plausibility in prevailing narratives with quantitative storytelling	24
Alternative energy imaginaries: Implications for energy research, policy integration and the transformation of energy systems	24
When energy justice encounters authoritarian environmentalism: The case of clean heating energy transitions in rural China	24
What does it mean to make a moral claim? A Wittgensteinian approach to energy justice	24
Growing community energy initiatives from the bottom up: Simulating the role of behavioural attitudes and leadership in the Netherlands	24
‘Practical recognition’ as a suitable pathway for researching just energy futures: Seeing like a ‘modern’ electricity user in Ghana	24
It’s all about community: On the interplay of social capital, social needs, and environmental concern in sustainable community action	23
Exploring the cross-national variation in public support for climate policies in Europe: The role of quality of government and trust	23
Assessing the success and failure of biogas units in Israel: Social niches, practices, and transitions among Bedouin villages	23
Energy citizenship in the Netherlands: The complexities of public engagement in a large-scale energy transition	23
Perpetuating energy poverty: Assessing roadmaps for universal energy access in unmet African electricity markets	23
The (in)justices of smart local energy systems: A systematic review, integrated framework, and future research agenda	23
Do we need better behaved cooks? Reviewing behavioural change strategies for improving the sustainability and effectiveness of cookstove programs	23
The persistence of high energy burdens: A bibliometric analysis of vulnerability, poverty, and exclusion in the United States	23
A framework for assessing the impact of private climate governance	23
“Let justice roll down like waters”: Reconnecting energy justice to its roots in the civil rights movement	23
Enabling the transition to a fossil-free steel sector: The conditions for technology transfer for hydrogen-based steelmaking in Europe	23
Mainstreaming gender to achieve security of energy services in poor urban environments	23
Beyond states: Harnessing sub-national actors for the deep decarbonisation of cities, regions, and businesses	23
Faster or slower decarbonization? Policymaker and stakeholder expectations on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global energy transition	23
Interplay between low-carbon energy transitions and national security: An analysis of policy integration and coherence in Estonia, Finland and Scotland	23
Towards a theory of just transition: A neo-Gramscian understanding of how to shift development pathways to zero poverty and zero carbon	23
What drives the solar energy transition? The effect of policies, incentives and behavior in a cross-country comparison	22
A successful fuel transition? Regulatory instruments, markets, and social acceptance in the adoption of modern LPG cooking devices in Indonesia	22
Regime resistance and accommodation: Toward a neo-Gramscian perspective on energy transitions	22
Empowered but powerless? Reassessing the citizens’ power dynamics of the German energy transition	22
Democratic quality and nuclear power: Reviewing the global determinants for the introduction of nuclear energy in 166 countries	22
Transforming innovation for decarbonisation? Insights from combining complex systems and social practice perspectives	22
Farm power: How a new business model impacts the energy transition in Finland	22
Of impacts, agents, and functions: An interdisciplinary meta-review of smart home energy management systems research	22
The less you burn, the more we earn: The role of social and political trust on energy-saving behaviour in Europe	22
Of pipe dreams and fossil fools: Advancing Canadian fossil fuel hegemony through the Trans Mountain pipeline	22
To continue to burn something? Technological, economic and political path dependencies in district heating in Helsinki, Finland	22

Exploring place-based approaches and energy justice: Ecology, social movements, and hydropower in Turkey	22
Contested energy futures, conflicted rewards? Examining low-carbon transition risks and governance dynamics in China's built environment	22
Environmental regulatory spillovers, institutions, and clean technology innovation: A panel of 32 countries over 16 years	22
Can authoritarian regimes achieve just energy transition? Evidence from China’s solar photovoltaic poverty alleviation initiative	22
The politics of climate finance: Consensus and partisanship in designing green state investment banks in the United Kingdom and Australia	22
Beyond the beach: Tradeoffs in tourism and recreation at the first offshore wind farm in the United States	21
Who wants to get involved? Determining citizen willingness to participate in German renewable energy cooperatives	21
The political economy of renewable portfolio standards in the United States	21
What shapes Norwegian wind power policy? Analysing the constructing forces of policymaking and emerging questions of energy justice	21
The critical role of trust in experiencing and coping with energy poverty: Evidence from across Europe	21
Too complicated and impractical? An exploratory study on the role of energy system models in municipal decision-making processes in Denmark	21
I'll follow the sun: Geo-sociotechnical constraints on prosumer households in Germany	21
Low-carbon leadership: Harnessing policy studies to analyse local mayors and renewable energy transitions in three Japanese cities	21
Triggering occupant behaviour for energy sustainability: Exploring subjective and comfort-related drivers in Brazilian offices	21
Eager to connect, cautious to consume: An integrated view of the drivers and motivations for electricity consumption among rural households in Kenya	21
Resisting renewables: The energy epistemics of social opposition in Mexico	21
Worth a thousand words: Presenting wind turbines in virtual reality reveals new opportunities for social acceptance and visualization research	21
Burdened by renewable energy? A multi-scalar analysis of distributional justice and wind energy in the United States	21
Innovative but unjust? Analysing the opportunities and justice issues within positive energy districts in Europe	21
Forgotten spaces: How reliability, affordability and engagement shape the outcomes of last-mile electrification in Chocó, Colombia	21
Who is marginalized in energy justice? Amplifying community leader perspectives of energy transitions in Ghana	21
Anarchy, war, or revolt? Radical perspectives for climate protection, insurgency and civil disobedience in a low-carbon era	21
Cooperatives, incumbency, or market hybridity: New alliances in the Dutch energy provision	21
''Only Social Scientists Laughed'': Reflections on Social Sciences and Humanities Integration in European Energy Projects	21
Energy access and pandemic-resilient livelihoods: The role of solar energy safety nets	21
Technology or behaviour? Balanced disruption in the race to net zero emissions	21
Exploring the re-emergence of industrial policy: Perceptions regarding low-carbon energy transitions in Germany, the United Kingdom and Denmark	20
World wars and the age of oil: Exploring directionality in deep energy transitions	20
A critical review of energy democracy: A failure to deliver justice?	20
The global energy transition and place attachment in coal mining communities: Implications for heavily industrialized landscapes	20
The role of adoption norms and perceived product attributes in the adoption of Dutch electric vehicles and smart energy systems	20
Frustration, confusion and excitement: Mixed emotional responses to new household solar-battery systems in Australia	20
Making shipping more carbon-friendly? Exploring ship energy efficiency management plans in legislation and practice	20
Acceptance through inclusion? Political and economic participation and the acceptance of local renewable energy projects in Switzerland	20
Keep quiet on climate: Assessing public response to seven renewable energy frames in the Western United States	20
Beyond the discourse of denial: The reproduction of fossil fuel hegemony in Australia	20
Digitalisation and social inclusion in multi-scalar smart energy transitions	20
Conflicted by decarbonisation: Five types of conflict at the nexus of capabilities and decentralised energy systems identified with an agent-based model	20
Transitioning to a low carbon society through energy communities: Lessons learned from Brazil and Italy	20
Beyond the low-carbon niche: Global tipping points in the rise of wind, solar, and electric vehicles to regime scale systems	20
From exports to exercise: How non-energy policies affect energy systems	20
Racial inequity in household energy efficiency and carbon emissions in the United States: An emissions paradox	20
Technical pathways to deep decarbonization in cities: Eight best practice case studies of transformational climate mitigation	20
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains	20
Nudging for the increased adoption of solar energy? Evidence from a survey in Italy	20
Depressed democracy, environmental injustice: Exploring the negative mental health implications of unconventional oil and gas production in the United States	20
Defeat the Peak: Behavioral insights for electricity demand response program design	19
Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe	19
China's imaginary of ecological civilization: A resonance between the state-led discourse and sociocultural dynamics	19
Gender, age, and educational differences in the importance of homely comfort in Denmark	19
Business model innovation for the energy market: Joint value creation for electricity retailers and their customers	19
Renewing the future: Excluded imaginaries in the global energy transition	19
Empowering energy citizenship among the energy poor	19
Energy transition in Brazil: Is there a role for multilevel governance in a centralized energy regime?	19
Smart grids and institutional change: Emerging contestations between organisations over smart energy transitions	19
Understanding pollution behavior among farmers: Exploring the influence of social networks and political identity on reducing straw burning in China	19
Not under my backyard? Psychological distance, local acceptance, and shale gas development in China	19
Gender, sexuality, and feminist critiques in energy research: A review and call for transversal thinking	19
Keep it local and bird-friendly: Exploring the social acceptance of wind energy in Switzerland, Estonia, and Ukraine	19
Closing the renewable energy gender gap in the United States and Canada: The role of women’s professional networking	19
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	19
When I was your age: Generational effects on long-run residential energy consumption in Italy	19
Assessing co-creation in strategic planning for urban energy transitions	19
Like parent, like child: Intergenerational transmission of energy consumption practices in Denmark	18
Policy uncertainty and renewable energy: Exploring the implications for global energy transitions, energy security, and environmental risk management	18
The dark side of energy poverty: Who is underconsuming in Spain and why?	18
One technology, two pathways? Strategic Niche Management and the diverging diffusion of concentrated solar power in South Africa and the United States	18
Can industries be parties in collective action? Community energy in an Iranian industrial zone	18
Knowledge politics, vulnerability and recognition-based justice: Public participation in renewable energy transitions in India	18
Public opinion on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons: The attitudinal nexus in the United States	18
Grounded reality meets machine learning: A deep-narrative analysis framework for energy policy research	18
Scales of governance: Translating multiscalar transitional pathways in South Africa’s energy landscape	18
Public policy spillovers from private energy governance: New opportunities for the political acceleration of renewable energy transitions	18
Co-creation as a social process for unlocking sustainable heating transitions in Europe	18
Rethinking energy transitions in Southern cities: Urban and infrastructural heterogeneity in Dar es Salaam	18
Leveraging community based organizations and fintech to improve small-scale renewable energy financing in sub-Saharan Africa	18
A pathway to rapid global solar energy deployment? Exploring the solar dominance hypothesis	18
Harnessing innovation policy for industrial decarbonization: Capabilities and manufacturing in the wind and solar power sectors of China and India	18
Gendered homes in theories of practice: A framework for research in residential energy consumption	18
Living with resource booms and busts: Employment scenarios and resilience to unconventional gas cyclical effects in Australia	18
A hybrid perspective on energy transition pathways: Is hydrogen the key for Norway?	18
Low-carbon retrofits in social housing: Energy efficiency, multidimensional energy poverty, and domestic comfort strategies in southern Europe	18
Illuminating homes with LEDs in India: Rapid market creation towards low-carbon technology transition in a developing country	18
When climate change adaptation becomes a “looming threat” to society: Exploring views and responses to California wildfires and public safety power shutoffs	18
“Risky transitions?” Risk perceptions, public concerns, and energy infrastructure in Germany	18
What about citizens? A literature review of citizen engagement in sustainability transitions research	18
Innovation in deep housing retrofit in the United Kingdom: The role of situated creativity in transforming practice	18
Gaming Environmental Governance? Bribery, Abuse of Subsidies, and Corruption in European Union Programs	18
Shattered frames in global energy governance: Exploring fragmented interpretations among renewable energy institutions	18
Hidden outlaws in the forest? A legal and spatial analysis of onshore wind energy in Germany	18
Income, housing and health: Poverty in the United States through the prism of residential energy efficiency programs	18
The politics of Asian fracking: Public risk perceptions towards shale gas development in China	18
Trees, tensions, and transactional communities: Problematizing frameworks for energy poverty alleviation in the Rhino Camp refugee settlement, Uganda	18
The merits of becoming smart: How Flemish and Dutch energy communities mobilise digital technology to enhance their agency in the energy transition	17
The revolution is conditional? The conditionality of hydrogen fuel cell expectations in five European countries	17
India’s new coal geography: Coastal transformations, imported fuel and state-business collaboration in the transition to more fossil fuel energy	17
From rational to relational: How energy poor households engage with the British retail energy market	17
Towards people-private-public partnerships: An integrated community engagement model for capturing energy access needs	17
Bolstering a transition for a more sustainable energy system: A transformative approach to evaluations of energy efficiency in buildings	17
Debating the sustainability of solar energy: Examining resource construction processes for local photovoltaic projects in France	17
Different strokes for different folks? Comparing pro-environmental intentions between electricity consumers and solar prosumers in Sweden	17
Pluralising agency to understand behaviour change in sustainability transitions	17
Walking on sunshine: Pairing electric vehicles with solar energy for sustainable informal public transport in Uganda	17
From cheap ethane to a plastic planet: Regulating an industrial global production network	17
It’s only a matter of time: Flexibility, activities and time of use tariffs in the United Kingdom	17
When it is not about the money: Social comparison and energy conservation among residents who do not pay for electricity	17
“Hot-headed” students? Scientific literacy, perceptions and awareness of climate change in 15-year olds across 54 countries	17
Understanding integrated-solution innovations in sustainability transitions: Reconfigurative building-energy services in Finland	17
Making policy mixes more robust: An integrative and interdisciplinary approach for clean energy transitions	17
The making of energy evidence: How exclusions of Social Sciences and Humanities are reproduced (and what researchers can do about it)	17
What explains citizen support for transport policy? the roles of policy design, trust in government and proximity among Swiss citizens	17
Positive reinforcement is just the beginning: Associative learning principles for energy efficiency and climate sustainability	17
Political economy of just transition: Disparate impact of coal mine closure on state-owned and private coal workers in Inner Mongolia, China	17
Is an ageing population impacting energy use in the European Union? Drivers, lifestyles, and consumption patterns of elderly households	16
Implications of poorly designed climate policy on energy poverty: Global reflections on the current surge in energy prices	16
Climate concerned but anti-nuclear: Exploring (dis)approval of nuclear energy in four European countries	16
The political economy of coal phase-out: Exploring the actors, objectives, and contextual factors shaping policies in eight major coal countries	16
Moderating spillover: Focusing on personal sustainable behavior rarely hinders and can boost climate policy support	16
Ghana's renewable energy agenda: Legislative drafting in search of policy paralysis	16
Is community renewable energy always just? Examining energy injustices and inequalities in rural Indonesia	16
A systematic review of social innovation and community energy transitions	16
Is clean energy contested? Exploring which issues matter to stakeholders in the European Green Deal	16
Foreign actors, faster transitions? Co-evolution of complementarities, perspectives and sociotechnical systems in the case of Indonesia’s electricity supply system	16
Moving beyond opportunity narratives in COVID-19 green recoveries: A comparative analysis of public investment plans in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom	16
Reinventing energy efficiency for net zero	16
Preying on the poor? Opportunities and challenges for tackling the social and environmental threats of cryptocurrencies for vulnerable and low-income communities	16
Authoritarian energy transitions undermined? Environmental governance cycles in China’s power sector	16
Better together: Harnessing social relationships in smart energy communities	16
Empowering and Engaging European building users for energy efficiency	16
Does cash money solve energy poverty? Assessing the impact of household heating allowances in Spain	16
Towards a broader climate ethics: Confronting the oil industry with morally relevant facts	16
Problematizing solar energy in Bangladesh: Benefits, burdens, and electricity access through solar home systems in remote islands	16
Taking it outside: Exploring social opposition to 21 early-stage experiments in radical climate interventions	16
Patriarchy and (electric) power? A feminist political ecology of solar energy use in Mexico and the United States	16
I cannot live without air conditioning! The role of identity, values and situational factors on cooling consumption patterns in India	16
Women’s work is never done: Lifting the gendered burden of firewood collection and household energy use in Kenya	16
Regulation trumps economics? Examining renewable energy policy, diffusion and investment in 80 developing countries	16
Anticipating global energy, climate and policy in 2055: Constructing qualitative and quantitative narratives	16
What can energy research bring to social science? Reflections on 5 years of Energy Research & Social Science and beyond	16
What is ‘local’ about Smart Local Energy Systems? Emerging stakeholder geographies of decentralised energy in the United Kingdom	16
For politics, people, or the planet? The political economy of fossil fuel reform, energy dependence and climate policy in Haiti	16
Beyond home: Exploring energy poverty among youth in four diverse Pacific island states	16
Of actors, functions, and fuels: Exploring a second generation ethanol transition from a technological innovation systems perspective in Brazil	16
Actors in energy transitions: Transformative potentials at the intersection between Norwegian port and transport systems	16
Beyond “one-size-fits-all” platforms: Applying Campbell's paradigm to test personalized energy advice in the Netherlands	16
What’s in a stove? A review of the user preferences in improved stove designs	16
Accounting for taste? Analysing diverging public support for energy sources in Great Britain	16
What drives energy insecurity across the world? A panel data analysis	15
Novel or normal? Electric vehicles and the dialectic transition of Nordic automobility	15
Demand response beyond the numbers: A critical reappraisal of flexibility in two United Kingdom field trials	15
Selling the sun: A critical review of the sustainability of solar energy marketing and advertising in Germany	15
“What is in it for me?” A people-centered account of household energy transition co-benefits in Poland	15
Motivations, barriers, and enablers for demand response programs: A commercial and industrial consumer perspective	15
Big data to the rescue? Challenges in analysing granular household electricity consumption in the United Kingdom	15
Grassroots retrofit: Community governance and residential energy transitions in the United Kingdom	15
What does the sharing economy mean for electric market transitions? A review with sustainability perspectives	15
Oil sands, pipelines and fracking: Citizen acceptance of unconventional fossil fuel development and infrastructure in Canada	15
Out of the margins, into the light: Exploring energy poverty and household coping strategies in Austria, North Macedonia, France, and Spain	15
A new energy world in the making: Imaginary business futures in a dramatically changing world of decarbonized energy production	15
Energetic voices on social media? Strategic Niche Management and Finnish Facebook debate on biogas and heat pumps	15
Seeing through risk-colored glasses: Risk and benefit perceptions, knowledge, and the politics of fracking in the United States	15
Going smart, staying confused: Perceptions and use of smart thermostats in British homes	15
Better poison is the cure? Critically examining fossil fuel companies, climate change framing, and corporate sustainability reports	15
Between users, functions, and evaluations: Exploring the social acceptance of smart energy homes in China	15
Westerly breezes and easterly gales: A comparison of legal, policy and planning regimes governing onshore wind in Germany and China	15
Practices, provision and protest: Power outages in rural Norwegian households	15
How the process of transitions shapes the politics of decarbonization: Tracing policy feedback effects across phases of the energy transition	15
Is off-grid residential solar power inclusive? Solar power adoption, energy poverty, and social inequality in India	15
Exploring the Enabling Environments, Inherent Characteristics and Intrinsic Motivations Fostering Global Electricity Decarbonization	15
Coal, climate and change: The narrative drivers of Australia’s coal economy	15
A typology for unpacking the diversity of social innovation in energy transitions	15
Regime-based transition intermediaries at the grassroots for community energy initiatives	15
How can local energy communities promote sustainable development in European cities?	15
Is hydropower worth it? Exploring amazonian resettlement, human development and environmental costs with the Belo Monte project in Brazil	15
Critiquing social impact assessments: Ornamentation or reality in the Bangladeshi electricity infrastructure sector?	15
China's role in Africa's energy transition: a critical review of its intensity, institutions, and impacts	15
Whither Plastics?—Petrochemicals, plastics and sustainability in a garbage-riddled world	15
Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management	15
Inadequate demand and reluctant supply: The limits of Chinese official development finance for foreign renewable power	15
Firewood in the forest: Social practices, culture, and energy transitions in a remote village of the Brazilian Amazon	15
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)	15
From the geopolitics of oil and gas to the geopolitics of the energy transition: Is there a role for European supermajors?	15
What socio-technical regimes foster solar energy champions? Analysing uneven photovoltaic diffusion at a subnational level in Switzerland	15
Expanding the scope of just transitions: Towards localized solutions and community-level dynamics	15
Is community earning enough? Reflections on engagement processes and drivers in two Italian energy communities	15
Visions, innovations, and justice? Transition contracts in Spain as policy mix instruments	15
Backyard voices: How sense of place shapes views of large-scale energy transmission infrastructure	15
Where do you draw the line? Legitimacy and fairness in constructing community benefit fund boundaries for energy infrastructure projects	15
Read all about it! Comparing media discourse on energy storage in Canada and the United Kingdom in a transition era	14
A cognitive mess: Mixed feelings about wind farms on the Danish coast and the emotions of energy infrastructure opposition	14
Is political steering gone with the wind? Administrative power and wind energy licensing practices in Norway	14
From the suites to the streets: Examining the range of behaviors and attitudes of international climate activists	14
From thermal comfort to conflict: The contested control and usage of domestic smart heating in the United Kingdom	14
Top-down sustainability transitions in action: How do incumbent actors drive electric mobility diffusion in China, Japan, and California?	14
Digital technology and energy imaginaries of future home life: Comic-strip scenarios as a method to disrupt energy industry futures	14
More transitions, less risk: How renewable energy reduces risks from mining, trade and political dependence	14
Prioritising business model innovation: What needs to change in the United Kingdom energy system to grow low carbon entrepreneurship?	14
Contention strikes back? The discursive, instrumental and institutional tactics implemented by coal sector incumbents in Colombia	14
The role of practice-based interventions in energy transitions: A framework for identifying types of work to scale up alternative practices	14
Investigating decentralized renewable energy systems under different governance approaches in Nepal and Indonesia: How does governance fail?	14