Energy Research & Social Science

Article	Citations
Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas	269
The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach	240
Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions	219
When pandemics impact economies and climate change: Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on oil and electricity demand in China	214
An outlook on the global development of renewable and sustainable energy at the time of COVID-19	212
Analysis of the electricity demand trends amidst the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic	201
Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation	191
Of renewable energy, energy democracy, and sustainable development: A roadmap to accelerate the energy transition in developing countries	176
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options	174
Just transition: A conceptual review	168
Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies	166
The impact of different COVID-19 containment measures on electricity consumption in Europe	162
Analysis of mobility trends during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic: Exploring the impacts on global aviation and travel in selected cities	160
What opportunities could the COVID-19 outbreak offer for sustainability transitions research on electricity and mobility?	160
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research	152
The limits of energy sufficiency: A review of the evidence for rebound effects and negative spillovers from behavioural change	150
Heat pumps and our low-carbon future: A comprehensive review	149
Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future	141
The misallocation of climate research funding	135
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology	132
Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there	123
The new oil? The geopolitics and international governance of hydrogen	122
Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics	115
Coronavirus comes home? Energy use, home energy management, and the social-psychological factors of COVID-19	114
Sociotechnical matters: Reviewing and integrating science and technology studies with energy social science	112

The role of energy democracy and energy citizenship for participatory energy transitions: A comprehensive review	111
The Green New Deal in the United States: What it is and how to pay for it	108
Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review	98
A historical turning point? Early evidence on how the Russia-Ukraine war changes public support for clean energy policies	97
People in transitions: Energy citizenship, prosumerism and social movements in Europe	96
Emergency measures to protect energy consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic: A global review and critical analysis	96
Demand-side solutions for climate mitigation: Bottom-up drivers of household energy behavior change in the Netherlands and Spain	94
European energy politics after Ukraine: The road ahead	93
The interaction between humans and buildings for energy efficiency: A critical review	92
Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework	91
Russia's war on Ukraine, European energy policy responses & implications for sustainable transformations	91
COVID-19 energy sector responses in Africa: A review of preliminary government interventions	89
Decarbonizing the iron and steel industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	89
The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health	87
Do renewable energy communities deliver energy justice? Exploring insights from 71 European cases	86
What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions	85
Intersectionality and energy transitions: A review of gender, social equity and low-carbon energy	80
Just energy transitions to low carbon economies: A review of the concept and its effects on labour and income	80
Grand Narratives for sustainable mobility: A conceptual review	80
Is peer-to-peer electricity trading empowering users? Evidence on motivations and roles in a prosumer business model trial in Australia	77
Community energy meets smart grids: Reviewing goals, structure, and roles in Virtual Power Plants in Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands	77
Beyond the EVent horizon: Battery waste, recycling, and sustainability in the United Kingdom electric vehicle transition	75
Unpacking the right-populist threat to climate action: Poland's pro-governmental media on energy transition and climate change	75
Three sides to every story: Gender perspectives in energy transition pathways in Canada, Kenya and Spain	73
A just transition for whom? Politics, contestation, and social identity in the disruption of coal in the Powder River Basin	72
Toward feminist energy systems: Why adding women and solar panels is not enough✰	72
Just transitions: Histories and futures in a post-COVID world	71
Rethinking the future low-carbon city: Carbon neutrality, green design, and sustainability tensions in the making of Masdar City	71
The good, the bad and the ugly: An overview of the sustainability of blockchain technology	69
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems: Explaining the perpetuation of coal power in Japan	69
A meta-analysis of residential PV adoption: the important role of perceived benefits, intentions and antecedents in solar energy acceptance	69
Biofuels, environmental sustainability, and food security: A review of 51 countries	68
Financing renewable energy development: Insights from 55 countries	67
Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin	66
Energy justice from the bottom up: A capability approach to community acceptance of wind energy in Mexico	66
Guides or gatekeepers? Incumbent-oriented transition intermediaries in a low-carbon era	65
Expanding the scope and implications of energy research: A guide to key themes and concepts from the Social Sciences and Humanities	65
What prevents us from taking low-carbon actions? A comprehensive review of influencing factors affecting low-carbon behaviors	65
Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave: A meta-theoretical framework integrating responsible innovation, social practices, and energy justice	64
Towards impactful energy justice research: Transforming the power of academic engagement	64
The political economy of national climate policy: Architectures of constraint and a typology of countries	64
A crude future? COVID-19s challenges for oil demand, supply and prices	63
Reviewing the opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the digitalization of energy	62
Pulling up the carbon ladder? Decarbonization, dependence, and third-country risks from the European carbon border adjustment mechanism	62
Distributional disparities in residential rooftop solar potential and penetration in four cities in the United States	61
Canada's Green New Deal: Forging the socio-political foundations of climate resilient infrastructure?	61
SDGs in action: A novel framework for assessing energy projects against the sustainable development goals	61
Destined for decline? Examining nuclear energy from a technological innovation systems perspective	61
Why hate carbon taxes? Machine learning evidence on the roles of personal responsibility, trust, revenue recycling, and other factors across 23 European countries	60
When renewable energy, empowerment, and entrepreneurship connect: Measuring energy policy effectiveness in 230 countries	59

Rethinking community empowerment in the energy transformation: A critical review of the definitions, drivers and outcomes	59
Scale, history and justice in community wind energy: An empirical review	59
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives: A review	57
Extreme energy poverty in the urban peripheries of Romania and Israel: Policy, planning and infrastructure	57
Bitcoin’s energy consumption is underestimated: A market dynamics approach	57
Beyond instrumentalism: Broadening the understanding of social innovation in socio-technical energy systems	56
Governing the dark side of renewable energy: A typology of global displacements	55
Is green a Pan-African colour? Mapping African renewable energy policies and transitions in 34 countries	55
Being forced to skimp on energy needs: A new look at energy poverty in Greece	54
Invisible energy poverty? Analysing housing costs in Central and Eastern Europe	54
Energy poverty in developing countries: A review of the concept and its measurements	54
Model-based policymaking or policy-based modelling? How energy models and energy policy interact	54
Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy	53
Effective policies to overcome barriers in the development of smart cities	52
The energy futures we want: A research and policy agenda for energy transitions	52
White knights, or horsemen of the apocalypse? Prospects for Big Oil to align emissions with a 1.5 °C pathway	51
The COVID-19 crisis deepens the gulf between leaders and laggards in the global energy transition	51
Proximities of energy justice: contesting community energy and austerity in England	51
Faring well in offshore wind power siting? Trust, engagement and process fairness in the United States	50
Just electrification: Imagining the justice dimensions of energy access and addressing energy poverty	50
Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries	50
Climate-friendly but socially rejected energy-transition pathways: The integration of techno-economic and socio-technical approaches in the Nordic-Baltic region	50
Unlocking the value of digitalization for the European energy transition: A typology of innovative business models	50
Identifying double energy vulnerability: A systematic and narrative review of groups at-risk of energy and transport poverty in the global north	50
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains	49
Transferring awareness into action: A meta-analysis of the behavioral drivers of energy transitions in Germany, Austria, Finland, Morocco, Jordan and Iran	49
Actors, objectives, context: A framework of the political economy of energy and climate policy applied to India, Indonesia, and Vietnam	49
COVID-19 and the academy: It is time for going digital	48
The troubled path to ending darkness: Energy injustice encounters in Malawi’s off-grid solar market	48
When East meets West: Understanding residents’ home energy management system adoption intention and willingness to pay in Japan and the United States	48
Co-production in the wind energy sector: A systematic literature review of public engagement beyond invited stakeholder participation	48
The hidden costs of energy and mobility: A global meta-analysis and research synthesis of electricity and transport externalities	48
Making demand side response happen: A review of barriers in commercial and public organisations	47
Blending new and old in sustainability transitions: Technological alignment between fossil fuels and biofuels in Norwegian coastal shipping	47
Implications of poorly designed climate policy on energy poverty: Global reflections on the current surge in energy prices	47
Mitigating inequality with emissions? Exploring energy justice and financing transitions to low carbon energy in Indonesia	47
From consultation toward co-production in science and policy: A critical systematic review of participatory climate and energy initiatives	46
Green New Deal proposals: Comparing emerging transformational climate policies at multiple scales	45
Towards a bioenergy transition in Italy? Exploring regional stakeholder perspectives towards the Gela and Porto Marghera biorefineries	45
Double energy vulnerability: Spatial intersections of domestic and transport energy poverty in England	45
Decarbonizing the oil refining industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	45
Reframing policy for the energy efficiency challenge: Insights from housing retrofits in the United Kingdom	45
Oil, fisheries and coastal communities: A review of impacts on the environment, livelihoods, space and governance	45
To eat and not to heat? Energy poverty and income inequality in Italian regions	45
Addressing gender in energy studies	44
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	44
Reconciliation through renewable energy? A survey of Indigenous communities, involvement, and peoples in Canada	44
The innovation and industry dynamics of technology phase-out in sustainability transitions: Insights from diversifying petroleum technology suppliers in Norway	44
Are rapid and inclusive energy and climate transitions oxymorons? Towards principles of responsible acceleration	44
Clean cooking for all? A critical review of behavior, stakeholder engagement, and adoption for the global diffusion of improved cookstoves	43
How governments, universities, and companies contribute to renewable energy development? A municipal innovation policy perspective of the triple helix	43
Banking on coal? Drivers of demand for Chinese overseas investments in coal in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Vietnam	43
The political economy of air pollution: Local development, sustainability, and political incentives in China	42
Mixed feelings on wind energy: Affective imagery and local concern driving social acceptance in Switzerland	42
Energy justice discourses in citizen deliberations on systems flexibility in the United Kingdom: Vulnerability, compensation and empowerment	42
Localizing the energy transition: Town-level political and socio-economic drivers of clean energy in the United States	41
The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling	41
Conceptualising restorative justice in the energy Transition: Changing the perspectives of fossil fuels	41
Regime resistance and accommodation: Toward a neo-Gramscian perspective on energy transitions	41
Interplay between low-carbon energy transitions and national security: An analysis of policy integration and coherence in Estonia, Finland and Scotland	41
Caste, class and gender in determining access to energy: A critical review of LPG adoption in India	40
Desirable or debatable? Putting Africa's decentralised solar energy futures in context	40
Towards a theory of just transition: A neo-Gramscian understanding of how to shift development pathways to zero poverty and zero carbon	40
Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses	40
Is demand side response a woman's work? Domestic labour and electricity shifting in low income homes in the United Kingdom	40
Will consumers really pay for green electricity? Comparing stated and revealed preferences for residential programs in the United States	40
Can electric vehicle drivers be persuaded to eco-drive? A field study of feedback, gamification and financial rewards in Germany	40
Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe	40
Liquefied natural gas expansion plans in Germany: The risk of gas lock-in under energy transitions	39
Residential energy use and energy-saving of older adults: A case from Japan, the fastest-aging country	39
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	39
Hot stuff: Research and policy principles for heat decarbonisation through smart electrification	39
European island imaginaries: Examining the actors, innovations, and renewable energy transitions of 8 islands	39
A typology for unpacking the diversity of social innovation in energy transitions	39
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	39
The Jevons paradox unravelled: A multi-level typology of rebound effects and mechanisms	39
More alike than different: Profiles of high-income and low-income rooftop solar adopters in the United States	39
Indigenous environmental defenders and the legacy of Macli-ing Dulag: Anti-dam dissent, assassinations, and protests in the making of Philippine energyscape	38
Political ecologies of the post-mining landscape: Activism, resistance, and legal struggles over Kalimantan's coal mines	38
Enabling the transition to a fossil-free steel sector: The conditions for technology transfer for hydrogen-based steelmaking in Europe	38

What is the quality of participatory renewable energy planning in Europe? A comparative analysis of innovative practices in 25 projects	37
What do energy modellers know? An ethnography of epistemic values and knowledge models	37
The energy injustice of hydropower: Development, resettlement, and social exclusion at the Hongjiang and Wanmipo hydropower stations in China	37
China's imaginary of ecological civilization: A resonance between the state-led discourse and sociocultural dynamics	37
Low-carbon lock-in? Exploring transformative innovation policy and offshore wind energy pathways in the Netherlands	36
Does natural gas fuel civil war? Rethinking energy security, international relations, and fossil-fuel conflict	36
From the geopolitics of oil and gas to the geopolitics of the energy transition: Is there a role for European supermajors?	36
Digitalisation, sustainable industrialisation and digital rebound – Asking the right questions for a strategic research agenda	36
Energy poverty in the COVID-19 era: Mapping global responses in light of momentum for the right to energy	36
What really drives the deployment of renewable energy? A global assessment of 118 countries	36
Rethinking the Multi-level Perspective for energy transitions: From regime life-cycle to explanatory typology of transition pathways	35
Which households are energy insecure? An empirical analysis of race, housing conditions, and energy burdens in the United States	35
Individuals, collectives, and energy transition: Analysing the motivators and barriers of European decarbonisation	35
State versus market in China's low-carbon energy transition: An institutional perspective	35
Political economy of just transition: Disparate impact of coal mine closure on state-owned and private coal workers in Inner Mongolia, China	35
Of jobs, skills, and values: Exploring rural household energy use and solar photovoltaics in poverty alleviation areas in China	35
The persistence of high energy burdens: A bibliometric analysis of vulnerability, poverty, and exclusion in the United States	35
Nudging and boosting for equity? Towards a behavioural economics of energy justice	35
Energy transition in Brazil: Is there a role for multilevel governance in a centralized energy regime?	34
Synthesizing value sensitive design, responsible research and innovation, and energy justice: A conceptual review	34
The global energy transition and place attachment in coal mining communities: Implications for heavily industrialized landscapes	34
Beyond the beach: Tradeoffs in tourism and recreation at the first offshore wind farm in the United States	34
Solar electricity cultures: Household adoption dynamics and energy policy in Switzerland	34
Racial inequity in household energy efficiency and carbon emissions in the United States: An emissions paradox	34
The dark side of energy poverty: Who is underconsuming in Spain and why?	33
Renewing the future: Excluded imaginaries in the global energy transition	33
The less you burn, the more we earn: The role of social and political trust on energy-saving behaviour in Europe	33
Women’s work is never done: Lifting the gendered burden of firewood collection and household energy use in Kenya	33
Empowering energy citizenship among the energy poor	33
Race and the politics of energy transitions	33
Climate change strategic narratives in the United Kingdom: Emergency, Extinction, Effectiveness	33
The (in)justices of smart local energy systems: A systematic review, integrated framework, and future research agenda	33
It’s all about community: On the interplay of social capital, social needs, and environmental concern in sustainable community action	33
Who wants to get involved? Determining citizen willingness to participate in German renewable energy cooperatives	33
Policy, politics and materiality across scales: A framework for understanding local government sustainable energy capacity applied in England	33
Energy citizenship in the Netherlands: The complexities of public engagement in a large-scale energy transition	33
Which plug-in electric vehicle policies are best? A multi-criteria evaluation framework applied to Canada	33
Keep it local and bird-friendly: Exploring the social acceptance of wind energy in Switzerland, Estonia, and Ukraine	33
Young, poor, and sick: The public health threat of energy poverty for children in Ireland	33
When controversies cascade: Analysing the dynamics of public engagement and conflict in the Netherlands and Switzerland through “controversy spillover”	33
What about citizens? A literature review of citizen engagement in sustainability transitions research	33
Lost (and found) in Transition: Expert stakeholder insights on low-carbon energy transitions in Spain	33
Better poison is the cure? Critically examining fossil fuel companies, climate change framing, and corporate sustainability reports	33
COVID-19 and energy access: An opportunity or a challenge for the African continent?	33
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)	33
The rise of solar home systems in sub-Saharan Africa: Examining gender, class, and sustainability	33
How will COVID-19 impact renewable energy in India? Exploring challenges, lessons and emerging opportunities	33
Why do low-income urban dwellers reject energy technologies? Exploring the socio-cultural acceptance of solar adoption in Mumbai and Cape Town	32
Who is marginalized in energy justice? Amplifying community leader perspectives of energy transitions in Ghana	32
Distorting the view of our climate future: The misuse and abuse of climate pathways and scenarios	32
New clean energy communities in polycentric settings: Four avenues for future research	32
Energy transitions in a time of intersecting precarities: From reductive environmentalism to antiracist praxis	32
Farmers vs. lakers: Agriculture, amenity, and community in predicting opposition to United States wind energy development	32
Exploring the re-emergence of industrial policy: Perceptions regarding low-carbon energy transitions in Germany, the United Kingdom and Denmark	32
Changing climate for populists? Examining the influence of radical-right political parties on low-carbon energy transitions in Western Europe	32
A hybrid perspective on energy transition pathways: Is hydrogen the key for Norway?	32
Acceptance through inclusion? Political and economic participation and the acceptance of local renewable energy projects in Switzerland	31
Household energy resilience: Shifting perspectives to reveal opportunities for renewable energy futures in affluent contexts	31
Public opinion on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons: The attitudinal nexus in the United States	31
Taking it outside: Exploring social opposition to 21 early-stage experiments in radical climate interventions	31
When energy justice encounters authoritarian environmentalism: The case of clean heating energy transitions in rural China	31
Sharing the burden: Shifts in family time use, agency and gender dynamics after introduction of new cookstoves in rural Kenya	31
Of impacts, agents, and functions: An interdisciplinary meta-review of smart home energy management systems research	31
A critical review of energy democracy: A failure to deliver justice?	31
Energy profiles among urban elite households in Mozambique: Explaining the persistence of charcoal in urban areas	30
Mainstreaming gender to achieve security of energy services in poor urban environments	30
Growing community energy initiatives from the bottom up: Simulating the role of behavioural attitudes and leadership in the Netherlands	30
Act locally, transition globally: Grassroots resilience, local politics, and five municipalities in the United States with 100% renewable electricity	30
Green hope or red herring? Examining consumer perceptions of peer-to-peer energy trading in the United Kingdom	30
A pollution paradox? The political economy of environmental inspection and air pollution in China	30
Car sharing and transformations in households travel patterns: Insights from emerging proto-practices in Norway	30
What drives the solar energy transition? The effect of policies, incentives and behavior in a cross-country comparison	30
World wars and the age of oil: Exploring directionality in deep energy transitions	30
Pluralizing energy justice: Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives	30
Assessing co-creation in strategic planning for urban energy transitions	30
Transforming innovation for decarbonisation? Insights from combining complex systems and social practice perspectives	30
Can authoritarian regimes achieve just energy transition? Evidence from China’s solar photovoltaic poverty alleviation initiative	29
Alternative energy imaginaries: Implications for energy research, policy integration and the transformation of energy systems	29
Beyond states: Harnessing sub-national actors for the deep decarbonisation of cities, regions, and businesses	29
Moving beyond opportunity narratives in COVID-19 green recoveries: A comparative analysis of public investment plans in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom	29
Twin transitions of decarbonisation and digitalisation: A historical perspective on energy and information in European economies	29
Policy uncertainty and renewable energy: Exploring the implications for global energy transitions, energy security, and environmental risk management	29
Why does the European Union produce biofuels? Examining consistency and plausibility in prevailing narratives with quantitative storytelling	29
From cheap ethane to a plastic planet: Regulating an industrial global production network	29
What shapes Norwegian wind power policy? Analysing the constructing forces of policymaking and emerging questions of energy justice	29
Burdened by renewable energy? A multi-scalar analysis of distributional justice and wind energy in the United States	29
The ineffectiveness of efficiency: The paradoxical effects of state policy on energy consumption in the United States	29
A review of business models for access to affordable and clean energy in Africa: Do they deliver social, economic, and environmental value?	29
When I was your age: Generational effects on long-run residential energy consumption in Italy	29
Innovative but unjust? Analysing the opportunities and justice issues within positive energy districts in Europe	28
Making policy mixes more robust: An integrative and interdisciplinary approach for clean energy transitions	28
The critical role of trust in experiencing and coping with energy poverty: Evidence from across Europe	28
Beyond cost: Exploring fuel choices and the socio-cultural dynamics of liquefied petroleum gas stove adoption in Peru	28
What is ‘local’ about Smart Local Energy Systems? Emerging stakeholder geographies of decentralised energy in the United Kingdom	28
Making shipping more carbon-friendly? Exploring ship energy efficiency management plans in legislation and practice	28