Energy Research & Social Science

Article	Citations
Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas	311
Of renewable energy, energy democracy, and sustainable development: A roadmap to accelerate the energy transition in developing countries	248
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options	238
Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation	237
Just transition: A conceptual review	232
Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies	206
Heat pumps and our low-carbon future: A comprehensive review	186
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research	169
The new oil? The geopolitics and international governance of hydrogen	159
The role of energy democracy and energy citizenship for participatory energy transitions: A comprehensive review	154
Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there	149
Decarbonizing the iron and steel industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	135
Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics	135
Russia's war on Ukraine, European energy policy responses & implications for sustainable transformations	126
Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework	123
Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review	119
European energy politics after Ukraine: The road ahead	117
People in transitions: Energy citizenship, prosumerism and social movements in Europe	117
Do renewable energy communities deliver energy justice? Exploring insights from 71 European cases	115
A historical turning point? Early evidence on how the Russia-Ukraine war changes public support for clean energy policies	113
The interaction between humans and buildings for energy efficiency: A critical review	107
Intersectionality and energy transitions: A review of gender, social equity and low-carbon energy	104
A just transition for whom? Politics, contestation, and social identity in the disruption of coal in the Powder River Basin	94
Just energy transitions to low carbon economies: A review of the concept and its effects on labour and income	94
A meta-analysis of residential PV adoption: the important role of perceived benefits, intentions and antecedents in solar energy acceptance	92

Beyond the EVent horizon: Battery waste, recycling, and sustainability in the United Kingdom electric vehicle transition	88
Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave: A meta-theoretical framework integrating responsible innovation, social practices, and energy justice	82
The good, the bad and the ugly: An overview of the sustainability of blockchain technology	82
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems: Explaining the perpetuation of coal power in Japan	81
Pulling up the carbon ladder? Decarbonization, dependence, and third-country risks from the European carbon border adjustment mechanism	80
Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin	80
What prevents us from taking low-carbon actions? A comprehensive review of influencing factors affecting low-carbon behaviors	76
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives: A review	75
Energy poverty in developing countries: A review of the concept and its measurements	75
Rethinking community empowerment in the energy transformation: A critical review of the definitions, drivers and outcomes	74
Energy justice from the bottom up: A capability approach to community acceptance of wind energy in Mexico	74
Governing the dark side of renewable energy: A typology of global displacements	73
Distributional disparities in residential rooftop solar potential and penetration in four cities in the United States	72
Bitcoin’s energy consumption is underestimated: A market dynamics approach	72
Why hate carbon taxes? Machine learning evidence on the roles of personal responsibility, trust, revenue recycling, and other factors across 23 European countries	72
Reviewing the opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the digitalization of energy	71
Implications of poorly designed climate policy on energy poverty: Global reflections on the current surge in energy prices	70
Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy	70
Beyond instrumentalism: Broadening the understanding of social innovation in socio-technical energy systems	68
When renewable energy, empowerment, and entrepreneurship connect: Measuring energy policy effectiveness in 230 countries	68
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains	66
Identifying double energy vulnerability: A systematic and narrative review of groups at-risk of energy and transport poverty in the global north	66
Effective policies to overcome barriers in the development of smart cities	64
Transferring awareness into action: A meta-analysis of the behavioral drivers of energy transitions in Germany, Austria, Finland, Morocco, Jordan and Iran	63
Proximities of energy justice: contesting community energy and austerity in England	63
Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries	63
Pluralizing energy justice: Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives	63
Model-based policymaking or policy-based modelling? How energy models and energy policy interact	63
Mitigating inequality with emissions? Exploring energy justice and financing transitions to low carbon energy in Indonesia	61
Unlocking the value of digitalization for the European energy transition: A typology of innovative business models	61
When East meets West: Understanding residents’ home energy management system adoption intention and willingness to pay in Japan and the United States	60
To eat and not to heat? Energy poverty and income inequality in Italian regions	60
Actors, objectives, context: A framework of the political economy of energy and climate policy applied to India, Indonesia, and Vietnam	60
The energy futures we want: A research and policy agenda for energy transitions	59
Decarbonizing the oil refining industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	59
Double energy vulnerability: Spatial intersections of domestic and transport energy poverty in England	58
Invisible energy poverty? Analysing housing costs in Central and Eastern Europe	58
Oil, fisheries and coastal communities: A review of impacts on the environment, livelihoods, space and governance	57
Just electrification: Imagining the justice dimensions of energy access and addressing energy poverty	57
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	57
The hidden costs of energy and mobility: A global meta-analysis and research synthesis of electricity and transport externalities	56
Conceptualising restorative justice in the energy Transition: Changing the perspectives of fossil fuels	55
From consultation toward co-production in science and policy: A critical systematic review of participatory climate and energy initiatives	55
The COVID-19 crisis deepens the gulf between leaders and laggards in the global energy transition	54
White knights, or horsemen of the apocalypse? Prospects for Big Oil to align emissions with a 1.5 °C pathway	54
Green New Deal proposals: Comparing emerging transformational climate policies at multiple scales	54
Reconciliation through renewable energy? A survey of Indigenous communities, involvement, and peoples in Canada	53
Blending new and old in sustainability transitions: Technological alignment between fossil fuels and biofuels in Norwegian coastal shipping	53
Regime resistance and accommodation: Toward a neo-Gramscian perspective on energy transitions	52
The troubled path to ending darkness: Energy injustice encounters in Malawi’s off-grid solar market	52

Co-production in the wind energy sector: A systematic literature review of public engagement beyond invited stakeholder participation	51
Are rapid and inclusive energy and climate transitions oxymorons? Towards principles of responsible acceleration	51
Towards a bioenergy transition in Italy? Exploring regional stakeholder perspectives towards the Gela and Porto Marghera biorefineries	50
Towards a theory of just transition: A neo-Gramscian understanding of how to shift development pathways to zero poverty and zero carbon	50
Liquefied natural gas expansion plans in Germany: The risk of gas lock-in under energy transitions	50
Enabling the transition to a fossil-free steel sector: The conditions for technology transfer for hydrogen-based steelmaking in Europe	50
What drives electric vehicle adoption? Insights from a systematic review on European transport actors and behaviours	49
The future of lithium-ion batteries: Exploring expert conceptions, market trends, and price scenarios	49
How governments, universities, and companies contribute to renewable energy development? A municipal innovation policy perspective of the triple helix	48
The Jevons paradox unravelled: A multi-level typology of rebound effects and mechanisms	48
The persistence of high energy burdens: A bibliometric analysis of vulnerability, poverty, and exclusion in the United States	48
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	48
Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe	48
Mixed feelings on wind energy: Affective imagery and local concern driving social acceptance in Switzerland	47
The political economy of air pollution: Local development, sustainability, and political incentives in China	47
Residential energy use and energy-saving of older adults: A case from Japan, the fastest-aging country	47
Banking on coal? Drivers of demand for Chinese overseas investments in coal in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Vietnam	46
The dark side of energy poverty: Who is underconsuming in Spain and why?	46
A hybrid perspective on energy transition pathways: Is hydrogen the key for Norway?	46
From the geopolitics of oil and gas to the geopolitics of the energy transition: Is there a role for European supermajors?	46
Interplay between low-carbon energy transitions and national security: An analysis of policy integration and coherence in Estonia, Finland and Scotland	45
A typology for unpacking the diversity of social innovation in energy transitions	45
Racial inequity in household energy efficiency and carbon emissions in the United States: An emissions paradox	45
Does natural gas fuel civil war? Rethinking energy security, international relations, and fossil-fuel conflict	45
Better poison is the cure? Critically examining fossil fuel companies, climate change framing, and corporate sustainability reports	45
Keep it local and bird-friendly: Exploring the social acceptance of wind energy in Switzerland, Estonia, and Ukraine	45
The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling	44
Green hydrogen value chains in the industrial sector—Geopolitical and market implications	44
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	44
Digitalisation, sustainable industrialisation and digital rebound – Asking the right questions for a strategic research agenda	43
Beyond the beach: Tradeoffs in tourism and recreation at the first offshore wind farm in the United States	43
Women’s work is never done: Lifting the gendered burden of firewood collection and household energy use in Kenya	43
Hot stuff: Research and policy principles for heat decarbonisation through smart electrification	42
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)	42
Energy poverty in the COVID-19 era: Mapping global responses in light of momentum for the right to energy	42
Low-carbon lock-in? Exploring transformative innovation policy and offshore wind energy pathways in the Netherlands	42
Acceptance through inclusion? Political and economic participation and the acceptance of local renewable energy projects in Switzerland	42
Energy citizenship in the Netherlands: The complexities of public engagement in a large-scale energy transition	42
Who wants to get involved? Determining citizen willingness to participate in German renewable energy cooperatives	41
Distorting the view of our climate future: The misuse and abuse of climate pathways and scenarios	41
China's imaginary of ecological civilization: A resonance between the state-led discourse and sociocultural dynamics	41
What about citizens? A literature review of citizen engagement in sustainability transitions research	41
Empowering energy citizenship among the energy poor	41
What really drives the deployment of renewable energy? A global assessment of 118 countries	40
Exploring the re-emergence of industrial policy: Perceptions regarding low-carbon energy transitions in Germany, the United Kingdom and Denmark	40
A critical review of energy democracy: A failure to deliver justice?	40
Twin transitions of decarbonisation and digitalisation: A historical perspective on energy and information in European economies	40
The (in)justices of smart local energy systems: A systematic review, integrated framework, and future research agenda	40
Young, poor, and sick: The public health threat of energy poverty for children in Ireland	40
The global energy transition and place attachment in coal mining communities: Implications for heavily industrialized landscapes	40
Political economy of just transition: Disparate impact of coal mine closure on state-owned and private coal workers in Inner Mongolia, China	40
New clean energy communities in polycentric settings: Four avenues for future research	40
Evidence behind the narrative: Critically reviewing the social impact of energy communities in Europe	40
Decarbonizing the chemical industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	39
What drives the solar energy transition? The effect of policies, incentives and behavior in a cross-country comparison	39
Policy uncertainty and renewable energy: Exploring the implications for global energy transitions, energy security, and environmental risk management	39
Energy transition in Brazil: Is there a role for multilevel governance in a centralized energy regime?	39
Race and the politics of energy transitions	39
How will COVID-19 impact renewable energy in India? Exploring challenges, lessons and emerging opportunities	39
Exploring the cross-national variation in public support for climate policies in Europe: The role of quality of government and trust	39
Climate change strategic narratives in the United Kingdom: Emergency, Extinction, Effectiveness	39
What is the quality of participatory renewable energy planning in Europe? A comparative analysis of innovative practices in 25 projects	39
Rethinking the Multi-level Perspective for energy transitions: From regime life-cycle to explanatory typology of transition pathways	38
Which households are energy insecure? An empirical analysis of race, housing conditions, and energy burdens in the United States	38
The less you burn, the more we earn: The role of social and political trust on energy-saving behaviour in Europe	38
Growing community energy initiatives from the bottom up: Simulating the role of behavioural attitudes and leadership in the Netherlands	38
Synthesizing value sensitive design, responsible research and innovation, and energy justice: A conceptual review	38
Is hydropower worth it? Exploring amazonian resettlement, human development and environmental costs with the Belo Monte project in Brazil	38
Preying on the poor? Opportunities and challenges for tackling the social and environmental threats of cryptocurrencies for vulnerable and low-income communities	38
Taking it outside: Exploring social opposition to 21 early-stage experiments in radical climate interventions	37
A systematic review of social innovation and community energy transitions	37
Farmers vs. lakers: Agriculture, amenity, and community in predicting opposition to United States wind energy development	37
It’s all about community: On the interplay of social capital, social needs, and environmental concern in sustainable community action	37
Energy transitions in a time of intersecting precarities: From reductive environmentalism to antiracist praxis	37
The rise of solar home systems in sub-Saharan Africa: Examining gender, class, and sustainability	37
Household energy resilience: Shifting perspectives to reveal opportunities for renewable energy futures in affluent contexts	37
The role of human influences on adoption and rejection of energy technology: A systematised critical review of the literature on household energy transitions	37
Technology or behaviour? Balanced disruption in the race to net zero emissions	36
Fast track to failure? Energy transition minerals and the future of consultation and consent	36
When energy justice encounters authoritarian environmentalism: The case of clean heating energy transitions in rural China	36

The critical role of trust in experiencing and coping with energy poverty: Evidence from across Europe	36
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	36
Who is marginalized in energy justice? Amplifying community leader perspectives of energy transitions in Ghana	36
Towards a CO2-neutral steel industry: Justice aspects of CO2 capture and storage, biomass- and green hydrogen-based emission reductions	36
Low-carbon retrofits in social housing: Energy efficiency, multidimensional energy poverty, and domestic comfort strategies in southern Europe	36
Why do low-income urban dwellers reject energy technologies? Exploring the socio-cultural acceptance of solar adoption in Mumbai and Cape Town	36
Beyond states: Harnessing sub-national actors for the deep decarbonisation of cities, regions, and businesses	36
Moving beyond opportunity narratives in COVID-19 green recoveries: A comparative analysis of public investment plans in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom	36
Customer engagement strategies in retail electricity markets: A comprehensive and comparative review	35
Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: A place-based research agenda	35
Renewing the future: Excluded imaginaries in the global energy transition	35
A systematic review of household energy transition in low and middle income countries	35
World wars and the age of oil: Exploring directionality in deep energy transitions	35
Digitalisation and social inclusion in multi-scalar smart energy transitions	35
How can local energy communities promote sustainable development in European cities?	35
A pollution paradox? The political economy of environmental inspection and air pollution in China	34
What shapes Norwegian wind power policy? Analysing the constructing forces of policymaking and emerging questions of energy justice	34
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	34
Technical pathways to deep decarbonization in cities: Eight best practice case studies of transformational climate mitigation	34
Energy poverty in Canada: Prevalence, social and spatial distribution, and implications for research and policy	34
A framework for social tipping in climate change mitigation: What we can learn about social tipping dynamics from the chlorofluorocarbons phase-out	34
Innovative but unjust? Analysing the opportunities and justice issues within positive energy districts in Europe	34
Beyond the discourse of denial: The reproduction of fossil fuel hegemony in Australia	34
Petrochemical transition narratives: Selling fossil fuel solutions in a decarbonizing world	34
Assessing co-creation in strategic planning for urban energy transitions	34
Mainstreaming gender to achieve security of energy services in poor urban environments	33
Anarchy, war, or revolt? Radical perspectives for climate protection, insurgency and civil disobedience in a low-carbon era	33
What is ‘local’ about Smart Local Energy Systems? Emerging stakeholder geographies of decentralised energy in the United Kingdom	33
Industrial decarbonization via natural gas: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options	33
Knowledge politics, vulnerability and recognition-based justice: Public participation in renewable energy transitions in India	33
Is an ageing population impacting energy use in the European Union? Drivers, lifestyles, and consumption patterns of elderly households	33
Can authoritarian regimes achieve just energy transition? Evidence from China’s solar photovoltaic poverty alleviation initiative	33
Energy poverty in the Netherlands at the national and local level: A multi-dimensional spatial analysis	32
Energy access and pandemic-resilient livelihoods: The role of solar energy safety nets	32
Is community renewable energy always just? Examining energy injustices and inequalities in rural Indonesia	32
When I was your age: Generational effects on long-run residential energy consumption in Italy	32
Pluralising agency to understand behaviour change in sustainability transitions	32
Navigating through an energy crisis: Challenges and progress towards electricity decarbonisation, reliability, and affordability in Italy	32
Why does the European Union produce biofuels? Examining consistency and plausibility in prevailing narratives with quantitative storytelling	32
Understanding pollution behavior among farmers: Exploring the influence of social networks and political identity on reducing straw burning in China	32
Alternative energy imaginaries: Implications for energy research, policy integration and the transformation of energy systems	32
A turn to geopolitics: Shifts in the German energy transition discourse in light of Russia's war against Ukraine	31
Business model innovation for the energy market: Joint value creation for electricity retailers and their customers	31
What is stopping low-carbon buildings? A global review of enablers and barriers	31
Leveraging community based organizations and fintech to improve small-scale renewable energy financing in sub-Saharan Africa	31
Reinventing energy efficiency for net zero	31
Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management	31
Top-down sustainability transitions in action: How do incumbent actors drive electric mobility diffusion in China, Japan, and California?	31
Coal, climate and change: The narrative drivers of Australia’s coal economy	31
A review of business models for access to affordable and clean energy in Africa: Do they deliver social, economic, and environmental value?	31
The politics of climate finance: Consensus and partisanship in designing green state investment banks in the United Kingdom and Australia	31
Low-carbon leadership: Harnessing policy studies to analyse local mayors and renewable energy transitions in three Japanese cities	30
Nudging for the increased adoption of solar energy? Evidence from a survey in Italy	30
Frustration, confusion and excitement: Mixed emotional responses to new household solar-battery systems in Australia	30
Does cash money solve energy poverty? Assessing the impact of household heating allowances in Spain	30
When climate change adaptation becomes a “looming threat” to society: Exploring views and responses to California wildfires and public safety power shutoffs	30
Prioritize your heat pump or electric vehicle? Analysing design preferences for Direct Load Control programmes in Swiss households	30
Rethinking the position of natural gas in a low-carbon energy transition	30
Social warfare for lithium extraction? Open-pit lithium mining, counterinsurgency tactics and enforcing green extractivism in northern Portugal	30
More transitions, less risk: How renewable energy reduces risks from mining, trade and political dependence	30
Integrating sociotechnical and spatial imaginaries in researching energy futures	30
Motivations, barriers, and enablers for demand response programs: A commercial and industrial consumer perspective	30
Net zero and the unexplored politics of residual emissions	30
The ineffectiveness of efficiency: The paradoxical effects of state policy on energy consumption in the United States	30
To support or oppose renewable energy projects? A systematic literature review on the factors influencing landscape design and social acceptance	29
I cannot live without air conditioning! The role of identity, values and situational factors on cooling consumption patterns in India	29
The office of the future: Operational energy consumption in the post-pandemic era	29
The revolution is conditional? The conditionality of hydrogen fuel cell expectations in five European countries	29
Depressed democracy, environmental injustice: Exploring the negative mental health implications of unconventional oil and gas production in the United States	29
Analysing community-based initiatives for heating and cooling: A systematic and critical review	29
Do we need better behaved cooks? Reviewing behavioural change strategies for improving the sustainability and effectiveness of cookstove programs	29
Towards people-private-public partnerships: An integrated community engagement model for capturing energy access needs	29
The challenges of engaging island communities: Lessons on renewable energy from a review of 17 case studies	29
Explaining and promoting participation in demand response programs: The role of rational and moral motivations among German energy consumers	29
India’s new coal geography: Coastal transformations, imported fuel and state-business collaboration in the transition to more fossil fuel energy	29
Faster or slower decarbonization? Policymaker and stakeholder expectations on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global energy transition	29
Harvesting lithium and sun in the Andes: Exploring energy justice and the new materialities of energy transitions	29
A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways	29
Walking on sunshine: Pairing electric vehicles with solar energy for sustainable informal public transport in Uganda	28
Grassroots retrofit: Community governance and residential energy transitions in the United Kingdom	28
Triggering occupant behaviour for energy sustainability: Exploring subjective and comfort-related drivers in Brazilian offices	28
“Hot-headed” students? Scientific literacy, perceptions and awareness of climate change in 15-year olds across 54 countries	28
Electricity access in Mozambique: A critical policy analysis of investment, service reliability and social sustainability	28
Friend-shoring and critical minerals: Exploring the role of the Minerals Security Partnership	28
Can solar desalination be small and beautiful? A critical review of existing technology under the appropriate technology paradigm	28
Don't send us your waste gases: Public attitudes toward international carbon dioxide transportation and storage in Europe	28
The political economy of coal phase-out: Exploring the actors, objectives, and contextual factors shaping policies in eight major coal countries	28
Digital technology and energy imaginaries of future home life: Comic-strip scenarios as a method to disrupt energy industry futures	28
Transactional colonialism in wind energy investments: Energy injustices against vulnerable people in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec	28
Patriarchy and (electric) power? A feminist political ecology of solar energy use in Mexico and the United States	28
Reviewing global peer-to-peer distributed renewable energy trading projects	28
Smart grids and institutional change: Emerging contestations between organisations over smart energy transitions	28
Co-creation as a social process for unlocking sustainable heating transitions in Europe	28
Investigating decentralized renewable energy systems under different governance approaches in Nepal and Indonesia: How does governance fail?	27
Emergent landscapes of renewable energy storage: Considering just transitions in the Western United States	27