Energy Research & Social Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Energy Research & Social Science is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in334
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom289
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada273
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions187
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi185
Editorial Board182
Editorial Board173
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market169
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States148
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape140
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland134
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review132
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing127
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation126
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications119
Integrating social justice criteria into multiscale spatial modeling of energy burden: A case study of four states in the United States109
Riding the wave of acceptance: Understanding factors in support for marine energy in the United States107
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency104
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance103
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system101
Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia100
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria96
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation95
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids94
When beyond compliance is the expectation: the realities of environmental planning and permitting for renewable energy projects in the great plains of the United States94
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf90
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research90
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide89
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes88
Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability and change in transitions88
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy88
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam85
An invisible threat? Exploring the physical and mental health risks of coal air pollution in the United States84
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?83
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community82
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan81
The widening gap between copper supply and demand will have an impact on economic development and energy futures80
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia80
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland80
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways77
Can renewable energy communities enable a just energy transition? Exploring alignment between stakeholder motivations and needs and EU policy in Latvia, Norway, Portugal and Spain75
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future75
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector75
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities73
The temporal evolution of resistance strategies during low-carbon transitions: Revealing the industry playbook of US, German, and Japanese automakers in the unfolding electric vehicle transition (199072
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom72
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy71
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling71
Deepening regional power connectivity: Beyond the industry-centric perspective70
Unjust or just unfortunate? Examining claims of procedural (in)justice in the pursuit of universal electricity access in Rwanda70
American policy conflict in the hothouse: Exploring the politics of climate inaction and polycentric rebellion70
Norwegian–Polish carbon capture and storage network: Bilateral collaboration for European climate action70
How do policies drive China's hydrogen energy industrialization? A comparative analysis of policy across central and regional governments (2016–2024)70
Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions and hydrogen pathways in Norway69
Navigating Russia's war and energy transition: Poland's coal challenge69
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa68
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand68
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland68
Getting the signal – Do electricity users meet the preconditions for making informed decisions on demand response?67
Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic67
A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways66
Conceptualizing resilience: An energy services approach66
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–201365
How can policy balance the goals of transition acceleration and justice? Permitting reform, large-scale renewable energy, and host communities in the United States65
Designing effective demand response: A review of behavioral insights, consumer engagement, and operational strategies in energy systems64
Critical minerals and the shaping of Central Asian economies through the ages64
Community benefit agreements for solar energy: Examining values, preferences and perceived benefits in the United States using a discrete choice experiment64
The impact of geopolitical risks on the dynamic capabilities of Big Oil63
For the climate, my friends, or my region? An experimental field trial for prosumer engagement with peer-to-peer energy trading in Austria63
Editorial Board63
Making the difficult easy: Reducing carbon footprint while preserving quality of life through effective behavior change62
Editorial Board62
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries62
What is nuclear cultural heritage? Developing an analytical framework61
Cycles of adversity: Parental joblessness in childhood and energy poverty in adulthood61
Falling short in 2030: Simulating battery-electric vehicle adoption behaviour in the Netherlands61
Divergent consumer preferences and visions for cooking and heating technologies in the United Kingdom: Make our homes clean, safe, warm and smart!61
Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms61
Quiet power: How security interests shape offshore wind and marine spatial planning in Sweden60
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality60
Towards an intersectional justice approach to carbon taxation: Energy poverty, vulnerable households, and revenue recycling in Ireland60
Does energy poverty impede job search success? Evidence from the unemployed in Australia60
Future at play: Applying Reflexive Public Reason in the case of Taiwanese energy transition59
Between decentralization and reintermediation: Blockchain platforms and the governance of ‘commons-led’ and ‘business-led’ energy transitions59
What came first, the pellet or boiler? Interacting leverage points within a sociotechnical system in the United States59
Managing transition risk: Toward an interdisciplinary understanding of strategies in the oil industry57
Between efficiency and democracy: Explaining support and resistance towards energy transition and prosumer solutions in Polish and Czech housing cooperatives57
Winds of fortune? Understanding the geographic, sociodemographic, and temporal distribution of benefit mechanisms from land-based wind projects in the United States57
Making energy renovations equitable: A literature review of decision-making criteria for a just energy transition in residential buildings55
Modeling stakeholder interactions for post-disaster electric power restoration: A multi-agent and game-theoretic approach54
When oil companies race to the bottom: Environmental enforcement in theory and corporate impunity in practice in the Peruvian Amazon54
Transitioning or tinkering at a net-zero economy? Introducing an assessment framework for industrial cluster decarbonisation in the United Kingdom53
Neighbourhood batteries in Australia: Anticipating questions of value conflict and (in)justice53
A stakeholder-centred narrative exploration on carbon capture, utilisation and storage: A systems thinking and participatory approach53
Understanding the social norms of cooling in Chinese offices: Predominance, professionalism, and peer respect53
Can intelligent Renewable Energy Communities deliver on equity for a just energy transition? A policy oriented demonstrator analysis52
Rarely pure and never simple: Exploring perceptions of truth and objectivity in energy modelling and scenarios52
Shifting sustainable lifestyle practices and behaviour during times of pandemic disruptive change: Implications for on-going socio-technical transitions52
Solar aporias: On precarity and praxis in interdisciplinary research on solar energy52
Who uses power, who gets microgrids? Uncovering regional trends in energy consumption and microgrid deployment in California52
How are Indigenous groups participating in large renewable energy project co-ownership? Mapping global progress52
Together we're smart! Flemish and Dutch energy communities' replication strategies in smart grid experiments51
Cultural norms to support gender equity in energy development: Grounding the productive use agenda in Rwanda51
Pipelines and power: Psychological distress, political alienation, and the breakdown of environmental justice in government agencies' public participation processes51
A forward looking perspective on the cement and concrete industry: Implications of growth and development in the Global South50
Domestic electricity consumers and the interactive bill: design intervention for improved energy literacy and empowerment50
Challenges of the current discourse on incumbent firms in sustainability transitions49
Towards accessibility or affordability? Multidimensional energy poverty across the South African urban–rural divide49
Measuring success: Evaluating the business model of rural mini-grid ecosystems48
Preferences and perceived barriers to pursuing energy sovereignty and renewable energy: A tribal nations perspective48
Institutional entrepreneuring for energy poverty: The role of boundary work in developing a collaborative product-service system for household appliances48
In the shadow of nuclear dependency: Competing pathways and the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in France47
What does Horizon 2020 contribute to? Analysing and visualising the community practices of Europe's largest research and innovation programme47
Sustainable design of multiscale CO2 electrolysis: A value sensitive design-based approach47
Is this drama called populism? A comparison of protagonists, allies, antagonists, and victims in the narratives of Polish and Hungarian energy experts46
Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: A place-based research agenda46
From tension to transformation in Dutch heat transitions: Leveraging time, transparency, and relationships46
From innovation to integration: institutional design challenges for emerging energy storage technologies in the Netherlands46
Watered down justice: Experiences of the offshore wind transition in Northeast coastal communities in the United States45
Comparing sustainability transition labs across process, effects and impacts: Insights from Canada and Sweden45
Strengthening the foundations of energy justice scholarship: What can philosophy contribute?45
Adjust the thermostat and eat more plants? Comparing energy and climate knowledge amongst botanical garden members45
Australian microgrids: Navigating complexity in the regional energy transition45
Public perceptions of heat decarbonisation in Great Britain: Awareness, values and the social circle effect45
Energy systems for Brazil's Amazon: Could renewable energy improve Indigenous livelihoods and save forest ecosystems?45
The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia44
Still muddling through: Local sustainability leaders and energy efficiency in rental units44
Lacking the confidence of one's convictions: Gender differences in energy tariff literacy44
Do laundry when the sun shines: Factors that promote loadshifting in Dutch households with solar panels44
Facilitating gendered and socially inclusive energy transitions in sub-Saharan Africa44
Palm trees, energy security and green hydrogen futures: Tourists' views on Mallorca's low carbon transition43
Overcoming barriers and seizing opportunities for smart meters in developing countries: Insights from a large-scale field study in India43
Models like heroes? Making Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) ready for deep decarbonization and a socio-economic transformation42
Greenhouse gas neutrality: A qualitative analysis of perceived sustainability tensions in the German chemical industry42
Green recovery or fossil lock-in? Assessing sustainability and energy transition pathways in major economies42
Beyond dark money: Information subsidies and complex networks of opposition to offshore wind on the U.S. East Coast42
Transport poverty vulnerability index: Making use of standardised databases42
What influences public acceptability of sustainable energy policies? The crucial role of funding and who benefits42
Getting stakeholders aboard for offshore wind decommissioning: A qualitative study on end-of-life challenges in Belgium42
Hydrogen economies and energy futures: A new Australian dream?42
Electrifying company cars? The effects of incentives and tax benefits on electric vehicle sales in 31 European countries41
Exploring the spatial characteristics of energy injustice: A comparison of the power generation landscapes in Spain, Denmark, and South Korea41
One service fits all? Insights on demand response dilemmas of differently equipped households in Germany41
Theorising resistance in times of fossil fuels: Ecological grief, righteous anger and interaction rituals in Sweden's energy regime shift41
The role of electric vehicle-to-X in net zero energy systems: A comprehensive review41
Participation and sensemaking in electric vehicle field trials: A study of fleet vehicle-to-grid in Australia41
Psychological and social factors driving citizen involvement in renewable energy communities: A systematic review40
Contentious pathways towards the energy transition in Barbados: A neo-Gramscian perspective40
Governing beyond market and state: A grounded theory of public–commons partnerships in Spain's energy transition40
Rushing for the gold of the energy transition: An empirical exploration of the relevance of landownership for the wind energy expansion in Germany40
Systematic Historical Analogue Research for Decision-making (SHARD): Introducing a new methodology for using historical case studies to inform low-carbon transitions40
Toward energy democracy: Municipal energy actions in local renewable energy projects40
Diagnosing and dismantling renewable lock-ins: Four decades of hydro-thermal path dependence in electricity systems40
Uneven transitions and disparate mobility patterns for South Africa’s electric paratransit39
The landlord - property manager - tenant trilemma: Exploring the decision-making processes in decarbonising the rental housing market39
Epistemic justice impossible? Expert perceptions of the participatory monitoring of geo-energy projects in Poland39
Data donation: Using the gift relationship framework to address privacy and environmental issues of energy consumption data collection39
Innovators, followers and laggards in home solar PV: Factors driving diffusion in Finland39
Role of street-level policy entrepreneurs in sustainability transition: Evidence from India's transition to LED lighting38
Out of sight, out of mind? The importance of local context and trust in understanding the social acceptance of biogas projects: A global scale review38
Energy justice in post-Paris India: Unpacking consensus and conflict through storylines and discourse coalitions38
From pilot to reform: Institutional change through distributed solar experimentation in China38
India's state-led electricity transition: A review of techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives38
Rethinking the position of natural gas in a low-carbon energy transition38
Visual observation or oral communication? The effect of social learning on solar photovoltaic adoption intention in rural China38
Carbon emissions in metal manufacturing productivity: A global analysis of aluminium smelting38
People, priorities, and path dependencies: Governance lessons for demand-side flexibility in Great Britain's decarbonising electricity system37
Intersectionality in good faith: Beyond normative claims and towards practical integration in energy justice research37
Beyond public acceptance: Towards systemic societal responsiveness of net zero infrastructures37
Framing a gender transformative post-coal future for just transition: A feminist manifesto37
Cursed forever? Exploring socio-economic effects of nuclear power plant closures across nine communities in the United States37
Navigating unchartered waters: Overcoming barriers to low-emission fuels in Swedish maritime cargo transport37
Smooth sailing ahead? Policy options for China's new energy vehicle industry in the post-subsidy era37
Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition36
The market will save the day: White house narratives on liquefied natural gas exports to the European Union36
Land acquisition, renewable energy development, and livelihood transformation in rural Kenya: The case of the Kipeto wind energy project36
Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage36
Hedgehogs, foxes, blueprints, and skeletons: Untangling the murky complexity of theoretical and conceptual frameworks36
Firewood, four wheelers, and chest freezers: The importance of modern energy to Alaska Native subsistence in Yedatene Na’36
Diversify or die: Strategy options for oil majors in the sustainable energy transition36
When energy justice is contested: A systematic review of a decade of research on Sweden's conflicted energy landscape35
Integrate and embrace or isolate and hide? Using Q-method to understand how to incorporate large-scale solar in rural Nova Scotia, Canada35
Stop burning garbage! Exploring an anti-waste-to-energy social movement and its effects on local politics in Spain35
Acceptance in progress: Navigating the transition of nuclear power perception from a long-term study in China35
“Act local, Impact global”: Mapping the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in Greece and advancing social engagement planning processes35
Opinion poles: Polarised views on energy developments in Canada's oil province35
Mainstreaming gender in energy design practice: Insights from companies operating in sub-Saharan Africa's energy sector35
Corrigendum to “making space for environmental justice in renewable energy planning” [energy research & social science volume 118 (2024) 103806]35
Opportunity, ideal or distraction? Exploring stakeholder perceptions of tackling energy poverty and vulnerability among older Australians34
The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement34
The smart meets the conventional: Media storylines and societal frames on the energy action of housing cooperatives34
Energy transitions on European islands: Exploring technical scenarios, markets and policy proposals in Denmark, Portugal and the United Kingdom34
Enablers or barriers: The multifaceted tales of power generation companies in China's energy transition34
“Do you think that coal will finish?”: The (Im)possibilities of living with and without coal in a central Indian coalfield34
The 2022 energy and inflationary crises: Data, experiences and opinions of Spanish energy vulnerable households33
Towards fair, just and equitable energy ecosystems through smart monitoring of household-scale biogas plants in Kenya33
Gendered impacts of oil price shocks: analyzing women's labor force participation in petrostates33
Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies33
Climate action or distraction? Exploring investor initiatives and implications for unextractable fossil fuels33
Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure33
Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays33
From theory to practice: Supporting industrial decarbonization and energy cooperation in Austria33
AI-driven energy futures: Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries in the tech industry33
Harnessing the sun for agriculture: Pathways to the successful expansion of Agrivoltaic systems in East Africa33
Missing the mark: Avoiding community misengagement in large-scale solar development33
Imagining a hydrogen economy: From grand technological utopia to enabler of the energy transition in three waves since the 1970s32
Exploring district heating and cooling cultures, a systematic literature review32
The experience of darkness: Introducing energy uncertainty32
Disruptions and energy demand: How Finnish households responded to the energy crisis of 202232
Designing bio-based value chains for social justice: The potential of Capability Sensitive Design32
Why are charging stations associated with electric vehicle adoption? Untangling effects in three United States metropolitan areas32
Shockingly cold and electricity-dependent in a rich context: Energy poor households in Norway32
The efficiency divide: Housing constraints on energy-saving practices in Darwin, Australia32
Affluence, Spatial Spillovers, and Inequality in Household Energy Transitions: Exploring the Determinants of Sustainable Technology Adoption in Ireland32
When wind power is rejected: Sámi self-determination and restorative energy justice in Arctic Norway32
Civic activism and petition politics in energy transitions: Discursive tactics, networking, and media mobilization in an anti-nuclear movement in China32
The links and entanglements of energy vulnerability: Unpacking the consequences of the energy crisis in Denmark32
Much broader than health: Surveying the diverse co-benefits of energy demand reduction in Europe31
Embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power31
Potentials and challenges of artificial intelligence-supported greenwashing detection in the energy sector31
Extending the prebound effect: the gap between healthy and actual energy consumption among low-income households in the global south31
Just energy imaginaries? Examining realities of solar development on Pennsylvania's farmland31
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains31
What is energy literacy? Responding to vulnerability in Philadelphia's energy ecologies31
Unveiling the power of social norms interventions: Investigating energy savings behavior in an Italian energy cooperative31
Household and non-household factors influencing multidimensional energy poverty in Bangladesh: Demographics, urbanization and regional differentiation via a multilevel modeling approach31
What does Agrivoltaics mean? A study on social representations shared by experts and the press in Italy31
The just transition fund – Did the European Union learn from Europe's past transition experiences?31
Conceptualising social value in net zero governance: The case of Bristol City Leap31
Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands31
“Become a Gas Leak Detective!” Evaluating a multigenerational citizen science program for connecting distribution pipelines to energy justice30
Between sunlight and sales: Market access constraints and conceptualizing the renewables pull effect30
Who should lead nuclear fusion research? Cross-national evidence on public–private governance preferences in Europe30
Making energy justice work for women in rural sub-Saharan Africa: A quantitative diagnostic from Benin, Senegal, and Togo30
Public risk perceptions of shale gas development: A comprehensive review30
Out of place, scale and time? Navigating injustices across mission arenas of the German Energiewende30
Why is it still too warm or cold in my house? Examining the relationships between energy efficient capital and household energy insecurity30
Technology, people, and place in microgrids: Addressing perceptions and engagement challenges for a rural Australian town30
Small hydropower, large obstacle? Exploring land use conflict, Indigenous opposition and acceptance in the Norwegian Arctic30
Why energy models should integrate social and environmental factors: Assessing user needs, omission impacts, and real-word accuracy in the European Union30
Solar threads and social knots: Gender and energy transitions in the weaving community of Varanasi, India30
Enabling a just energy transition through solidarity in research30
Actions speak louder than words: Attitudes, behaviour, and partisan identity in a polarised environmental domain30
Uncertainties and anticipated disturbances as drivers of tenant relocation in Swedish housing renovation29
Explaining climate change policy inertia: Policymaker perspectives on building energy efficiency in the United Kingdom29
What is the value of peer-to-peer energy trading? A discrete choice experiment with residential electricity users in Colombia29
Technological innovation enables low cost climate change mitigation29
Modelling governance for a successful electricity sector decarbonisation29
Advancing theories on the scalar complexities of Green Sacrifice Zones29
Evidence-based climate impact: A financial product framework29
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