Energy Research & Social Science

Article	Citations
The social dimension of renewable energy storage in electricity markets: The role of partnerships	335
“Electricity is result of my good deeds”: An analysis of the benefit of rural electrification from the women's perspective in rural Nepal	297
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	278
Editorial Board	272
Rethinking path dependence, technical innovation and social practices in a renewable energy future	187
Power dynamics, shifting roles, and learning: Exploring key actors in participation processes in the German energy transformation (Energiewende)	162
The how and what of bottom-up governance to change household energy consumption behaviour	159
“Don't cook or iron with it”: Heterogeneities and coping strategies for accessing and using electricity in the informal settlements of Kampala, Uganda	150
Editorial Board	134
Oil, fish, and livelihoods: Narratives of hydrocarbon benefits and gendered relations in Ghana	130
Are Dutch homeowners willing to invest in sustainable heating systems? Comparing intentions and determinants in four scenarios	129
Labour implications of the net-zero transition and clean energy exports in Australia	120
Explaining energy transition: A systemic social mechanisms approach illustrated with the examples of Germany and Poland	115
Understanding structural, governance and regulatory incentives for improved utility performance: Learning from Umeme Ltd in Uganda	99
Supply sunspots and shadows: Business siting patterns and inequitable rooftop solar adoption in the United States	98
Editorial Board	96
Editorial Board	96
Weak states, fast transitions? Exploring the role of actors, governance capacity, and tensions in Indian energy politics	92
Frontlining energy justice: Visioning principles for energy transitions from community-based organizations in the United States	89
Hard-to-reach energy users: An ex-post cross-country assessment of behavioural-oriented interventions	89
Quantifying the value of energy security: How Russia's invasion of Ukraine exploded Europe's fossil fuel costs	85
Who put the hammer in the toolbox? Explaining the emergence of renewable energy auctions as a globally dominant policy instrument	81
Doing business model innovation for sustainability transitions — Bringing in strategic foresight and human centred design	81
Editorial Board	79
Editorial Board	79

Reprint of: The privilege of learning and serendipity: My principles of publishing research for a new academic era	79
How will I know about local energy projects? A conjoint-analysis of communication preferences in Germany	76
Interrelations between security and the zero‑carbon energy transition in the Finnish and Norwegian Arctic	76
The intangible technological innovation system: The role and influence of voluntary and compliance carbon markets on carbon dioxide removal in the European Union	72
Corrigendum to “Large inequalities in climate mitigation scenarios are not supported by theories of distributive justice” [Energy Res. Soc. Sci. 118 (2024) 103813]	70
Exploring beyond-compliance behaviors of Australian building practitioners: A cluster analysis	69
Unpacking authoritarian governance in electricity policy: Understanding progress, inconsistency and stagnation in Tanzania	67
Newspaper discourses shore up an unviable energy technology: Algae biofuels in the United States	66
Editorial Board	64
Optimising shared renewable energy systems: An institutional approach	63
Cut-off and forgotten?: Livelihood disruption, social impacts and food insecurity arising from the East African Crude Oil Pipeline	62
For the love of sun and wind? Proximity to renewable energy facilities and support for renewable power across time and space in the United States	62
Tackling the challenge of interdisciplinary energy research: A research toolkit	61
Rethinking energy transitions in Southern cities: Urban and infrastructural heterogeneity in Dar es Salaam	59
Why do low-income urban dwellers reject energy technologies? Exploring the socio-cultural acceptance of solar adoption in Mumbai and Cape Town	59
From consultation toward co-production in science and policy: A critical systematic review of participatory climate and energy initiatives	59
Is political steering gone with the wind? Administrative power and wind energy licensing practices in Norway	58
The forgotten half: Men’s influence over cookstove adoption decisions in Northern Kenya	57
Uncharted waters: Exploring coastal recreation impacts, coping behaviors, and attitudes towards offshore wind energy development in the United States	56
Why energy return on energy investment is not useful for policy	56
Co-creation as a social process for unlocking sustainable heating transitions in Europe	56
Blending new and old in sustainability transitions: Technological alignment between fossil fuels and biofuels in Norwegian coastal shipping	56
Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave: A meta-theoretical framework integrating responsible innovation, social practices, and energy justice	56
Promoting support for carbon capture and storage with social norms: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in China	56
The politics of low-carbon innovation: Implementing the European Union’s strategic energy technology plan	55
Predicting attitudes towards fusion energy in Europe: Results of a cross-national public survey in Austria, Finland, Spain and the UK	55
Political strategies in energy transitions: Exploring power dynamics, repertories of interest groups and wind energy pathways in Brazil	54
Villain or victim? Framing strategies and legitimation practices in the Russian perspective on the European Union’s Third Energy Package	53
How work patterns affect leisure activities and energy consumption: A time-use analysis for Finland and France	53
High-rise residential building makeovers: Improving renovation quality in the United Kingdom and Canada through systemic analysis	52
Innovative but unjust? Analysing the opportunities and justice issues within positive energy districts in Europe	51
Effective tool or useless list? Projects of Common Interest in the sector of natural gas in Southeastern Europe	51
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives: A review	51
Advocating a just transition in Appalachia: Civil society and industrial change in a carbon-intensive region	51
Understanding policy divergence after United Kingdom devolution: Strategic action fields in Scottish energy efficiency policy	50
Framing the Energy East pipeline debate in Canada: Public opinion is sensitive to public safety and economic considerations	50
Technology or behaviour? Balanced disruption in the race to net zero emissions	49
When renewable energy, empowerment, and entrepreneurship connect: Measuring energy policy effectiveness in 230 countries	49
Are the impacts of wind energy reversible? Critically reviewing the research literature, the governance challenges and presenting an agenda for social science	48
Empowerment or employment? Uncovering the paradoxes of social entrepreneurship for women via Husk Power Systems in rural North India	47
The great equalizer: Inequality in tribal energy access and policies to address it	47
Rethinking collaborative action and citizen empowerment: Characterising a Whole-of-Society approach to the energy transition	46
Energy audits and eco-feedback: Exploring the barriers and facilitators of agricultural energy efficiency improvements on Australian farms	46
The political economy of socio-technical transitions: A relational view of the state and bus system decarbonization in the United Kingdom	46
Public agency and responsibility in energy governance: A Q study on diverse imagined publics in the Dutch heat transition	46
New clean energy communities in polycentric settings: Four avenues for future research	45
Cultural imaginaries or incommensurable ontologies? Relationality and sovereignty as worldviews in socio-technological system transitions	45
Rooftop solar in the United States: Exploring trust, utility perceptions, and adoption among California homeowners	45
Playing by the rules? How community actors use experts and evidence to oppose coal seam gas activity in Australia	45
Renewable energy development on the Indigenous Estate: Free, prior and informed consent and best practice in agreement-making in Australia	45

Citizen perceptions of fracking-related earthquakes: Exploring the roles of institutional failures and resource loss in Oklahoma, United States	45
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	44
Not paid to dance at the powwow: Power relations, community benefits, and wind energy in M’Chigeeng First Nation, Ontario, Canada	44
Out of the margins, into the light: Exploring energy poverty and household coping strategies in Austria, North Macedonia, France, and Spain	44
How can local energy communities promote sustainable development in European cities?	44
Identifying double energy vulnerability: A systematic and narrative review of groups at-risk of energy and transport poverty in the global north	44
The socio-political context of energy storage transition: Insights from a media analysis of Chinese newspapers	43
Cloud-based energy management systems: Terminologies, concepts and definitions	43
More transitions, less risk: How renewable energy reduces risks from mining, trade and political dependence	43
Bold ambition, blunted agency? Examining top management perspectives on a circular economy transition in Finland	43
Can renewable energy communities enable a just energy transition? Exploring alignment between stakeholder motivations and needs and EU policy in Latvia, Norway, Portugal and Spain	43
Unravelling the ‘collective’ in sociotechnical imaginaries: A literature review	42
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	42
Flexible experimentation as a remedy for uncertainties - Reflexive Public Reason behind the energy transition in the People's Republic of China	42
Priorities and relevance of bioenergy sustainability indicators: A participatory selection framework applied to community-based forestry in Mexico	41
Prospects for American cobalt: Reactions to mine proposals in Minnesota and Idaho	41
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	41
Acceptance dynamics of innovation diffusion: A heuristic framework for analysing actor reorientations in sustainability transitions	41
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	41
Multi-system interactions in hydrogen-based sector coupling projects: System entanglers as key actors	41
Defusing a carbon bomb: Exploring the strategies of anti-fracking activists in Mexico	41
Coupling green hydrogen production to community benefits: A pathway to social acceptance?	40
“The ketchup effect”: Challenges in reconciling growth and justice in Northern Sweden's green transition	40
The clock is ticking: Understanding the ‘mixed feelings’ about fusion energy in Europe	40
How to support the adoption of open-source energy system modelling software? Insights from interviews with users and developers	40
Beyond energy justice: Ethics of care as a new approach in the energy system	40
Good fences make good neighbors: Stakeholder perspectives on the local benefits and burdens of large-scale solar energy development in the United States	40
Building climate resilience through energy access? An empirical study on grid connectivity in the Indian Sundarbans	40
A just transition or just a transition? The understanding and relevance of fairness in planning for a decarbonised transport system	40
Financially-constrained solar development: A comparative analysis of urban fabrics and scalar expression in Portugal and Rajasthan	40
Are subsidies market manipulation? The politics of electricity market hybridization in the United States	39
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	39
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	39
Sharing a car with your next-door neighbor: Motivations and barriers to adoption of low-carbon mobility in Israel	39
Just transitions: Towards more just research	39
Solar masculinities from the south: Patriarchal and ethnoreligious authoritarianism through solar infrastructures in Turkey and India	39
Gendered sociotechnical imaginaries: Understanding the role of masculinities in Portugal's pursuit of multi-scalar solar energy transitions	39
Understanding the drivers of electricity access and willingness to pay for reliable electricity in African refugee settlements: Evidence from Zambia, Malawi, and Uganda	38
Examining the inaction in energy renovation decisions: The role of transaction costs in single-family households in Sweden	38
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	38
Misalignments of theory and practice: Exploring Swedish energy utilities' understandings of energy justice, flexibility capital, and just energy transitions	38
Comfort or cash? Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on energy insecurity and energy limiting behavior in households	38
Placing the intangible: Space, nuclear power and social sciences	38
Why and how can agent-based modelling be applied to community energy systems? A systematic and critical review	38
(Dis)comfortably numb in energy transitions: Gauging residential hard-to-reach energy users in the European Union	38
A framework for considering decarbonisation risks emerging from low-carbon hydrogen supply chains	38
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	36
A historical turning point? Early evidence on how the Russia-Ukraine war changes public support for clean energy policies	36
Communication breakdown: Energy efficiency recommendations to address the disconnect between building operators and occupants	36
Planning energy interventions in buildings and tackling fuel poverty: Can two birds be fed with one scone?	36
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	36
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	36
The emerging world of humanitarian energy: A conceptual research review	36
Off-grid solar expansion and economic development in the global South: A critical review and research agenda	36
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	35
The relational dimensions of renovation: Implications for retrofit policy	35
Winning coalitions for just transitions: Insights from the environmental justice movement	35
Rethinking energy studies: Equity, energy and Ivan Illich (1926–2002)	35
Beneath your feet and in your place: Multi-scalar imaginaries of energy, place, and local geothermal development	35
Analysing intersections of justice with energy transitions in India - A systematic literature review	34
Caring for energy, energy to care: Exploring the energy-care nexus through examples from Sweden and India	34
An institutional framework for energy transitions: Lessons from the Nigerian electricity industry history	34
Fintech RE in a global finance centre: Expert perceptions of the benefits of and challenges to digital financing of distributed and decentralised renewables in Hong Kong	34
Does polycentrism deliver? A case study of energy community governance in Europe	34
Energy communities as demand-side innovators? Assessing the potential of European cases to reduce demand and foster flexibility	34
When cooking meets confucianism: Exploring the role of traditional culture in cooking energy poverty	34
Hybridizing qualitative coding with natural language processing and deep learning to assess public comments: A case study of the clean power plan	33
First and last and always: Politics of the ‘energy efficiency first’ principle in EU energy and climate policy	33
Ready or not, here it comes: Assessing the gaps in community plans for renewable energy transitions within the United States	33
Automated and absent: How people and households are accounted for in industry energy scenarios	33
David against Goliath? Challenges and opportunities for energy cooperatives in Southern Europe	33
How to increase cookstove adoption? Exploring cost-effective dissemination techniques in Central Mozambique	33
The formative phase of German carbon dioxide removal policy: Positioning between precaution, pragmatism and innovation	33
Household willingness to pay for improving electricity services in Sumba Island, Indonesia: A choice experiment under a multi-tier framework	32
Citizens call for sufficiency and regulation — A comparison of European citizen assemblies and National Energy and Climate Plans	32
Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia	32
Energy justice in heat metering: Findings from a Danish experiment of metering and distribution in residential apartment buildings	32
Punctuated shifts or incremental change? A comparative analysis of U.S. state-level renewable energy mandates	32
Digital technology and energy imaginaries of future home life: Comic-strip scenarios as a method to disrupt energy industry futures	32
Leveraging realities of saving energy at home: Contributions of co-design to behavioural interventions	32

The Russian coal industry in an uncertain world: Finally pivoting to Asia?	32
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom	31
Context matters: Unpacking decision-making, external influences and spatial factors on clean cooking transitions in Nepal	31
Decarbonization and social justice: The case for artisanal and small-scale mining	31
The politics of carbon management in Austria: Emerging fault lines on carbon capture, storage, utilization and removal	31
I did my bit! The impact of electric vehicle adoption on compensatory beliefs and norms in Norway	31
From tweets to insights: A social media analysis of the emotion discourse of sustainable energy in the United States	31
Expanding European fossil-based plastic production in a time of socio-ecological crisis: A neo-Gramscian perspective	31
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	31
Getting emotional or cognitive on social media? Analyzing renewable energy technologies in Instagram posts	31
Halfway up the ladder: Developer practices and perspectives on community engagement for utility-scale renewable energy in the United States	31
The paradox of permission: Why governments allow foreign actors to promote solar energy projects in disputed cities	31
To reform or not reform? Competing energy transition perspectives on Indonesia's monopoly electricity supplier Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN)	30
What is the role of energy communities in tackling energy poverty? Measures, barriers and potential in the Netherlands	30
Landlords' accounts of retrofit: A relational approach in the private rented sector in England	30
Co-creating a community visioning methodology for energy transitions: Principles, practices, and reflections	30
Policy stagnation or reevaluation? Exploring the regulatory dimensions of carbon capture, utilisation and storage in Finland and the Baltic countries	30
An interdisciplinary model for behaviour in residential buildings: Bridging social sciences and engineering approaches	30
Fair enough? Unraveling justice perspectives on Germany's energy system transformation	30
Is ‘eliminating’ remote diesel-generation just? Inuit energy, power, and resistance in off-grid communities of NunatuKavut	30
Grid expectations: How service design and business model innovation can support mini-grid development in Kenya	30
Flexibility justice: Exploring the relationship between electrical vehicle charging behaviors, demand flexibility and psychological factors	30
Taking the car out of the countryside: Understanding opposition to climate policy in rural Finland	30
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	30
‘Although it's my home, it's not my house’ – Exploring impacts of retrofits with social housing residents	29
A systematic review of household energy transition in low and middle income countries	29
Mapping risk and benefit perceptions of energy sources: Comparing public and expert mental models in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore	29
Institutional work after hype: The case of biogas in Germany	29
The effects of institutional layering on electricity sector reform: Lessons from Norway's electricity sector	29
Exploring the nexus of gender and energy transitions: A systematic literature review	29
“Rural exploitation” in solar energy development? A field survey experiment in South Korea on solar energy support in rural areas	29
Energy subsidies versus cash transfers: the causal effect of misperceptions on public support for countermeasures during the energy crisis	29
Capital endowments: Explaining energy citizenship using Bourdieu's forms of capital	29
All's fair in love and WAR: The conduct of wind acceptance research (WAR) in the United States and Canada	29
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	28
India's solar soft power	28
Living with energy poverty: Uncovering older people’s fuel choices in urban China	28
Racing to the last barrel: Linking oil and gas industry interests to climate inaction in Canada	28
Analysing perspectives on capital, mutual, and general interest: A comparative study of energy cooperatives in Belgium and in Italy	28
Competing claims on land in the solar age: Valorising capital or Country in Australia?	28
Hydropower benefit-sharing and resettlement: A conceptual review	28
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	28
Clean energy for all? Mapping inequity potential in the clean energy transition in the United States	28
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	27
‘Bigger than Brexit’: Exploring right-wing populism and net-zero policies in the United Kingdom	27
Participation in Energy Transitions: A Comparison of Policy Styles	27
Five grand challenges of offshore wind financing in the United States	27
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	27
Valuing the value: An affordances perspective on new models in the electricity market	27
Thinking of the children: Energy poverty and acute respiratory infections among young children in South Asia	27
Working time, inequality and carbon emissions in the United States: A multi-dividend approach to climate change mitigation	27
Assessing county-level vulnerability to the energy transition in the United States using machine learning	27
Emerging spatial clusters of energy poverty vulnerability in rural Finland—Byproducts of accumulated regional development	27
Beyond science and policy: Typologizing and harnessing social movements for transformational social change	27
Energy democracy: Reclaiming a unique agenda in energy transitions research	26
Whose low-carbon future? Community perceptions and expectations on the renewable energy transition in a post-industrial city	26
Energy communities, distributed generation, renewable sources: Close relatives or potential friends?	26
China's nuclear exports: Understanding the dynamics between domestic governance reforms and international market competition	26
Greening Polish transportation? Untangling the nexus between electric mobility and a carbon-based regime	26
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	26
Embracing omplexity: Microgrids and community ngagement in Australia	26
Spatial distributive justice has many faces: The case of siting renewable energy infrastructures	26
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	26
Vigilant conservation: How energy insecure households navigate cumulative and administrative burdens	26
Energy taxes recycling as an instrument for the mitigation of the expenditure on energy products of vulnerable households in the European Union	26
Scaling up solar cooking studies: A modeling framework for planning sustainable transition of the bakery sector	26
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	26
Technology to the rescue? Techno-scientific practices in the United Kingdom Net Zero Strategy and their role in locking in high energy decarbonisation pathways	26
Rethinking the concept of prosuming: A critical and integrative perspective	26
I could but I don't: What does it take to adopt pro-environmental behaviors in the United States?	25
Inequity in public sector energy efficiency? Explaining disparities in program budgets in California, United States	25
When safety is relative: Ecological modernisation theory and the nuclear safety regulatory regimes of France, the United Kingdom and United States	25
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	25
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options	25
A systematic review of the lived experiences of the energy vulnerable: Where are the research gaps?	25
“Tool for a just transition? Community choice aggregation and energy justice in New Hampshire and beyond”	25
Political power, economic trade-offs, and game theory in Indonesian gasoline subsidy reform	25
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	25
Exploring the re-emergence of industrial policy: Perceptions regarding low-carbon energy transitions in Germany, the United Kingdom and Denmark	25
Misalignment or exclusion? Investigating climate and energy philanthropy funding of diversity	25
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	25
Permanent incompleteness: Slow electricity roll-out, infrastructure practices and strategy formation in Monrovia, Liberia	24
Conceptualizations of smart grids –anomalous and contradictory expert paradigms in transitions of the electricity system	24
A typology for unpacking the diversity of social innovation in energy transitions	24
Identifying rebound effects and formulating more sustainable energy efficiency policy: A global review and framework	24
Rooftop solar, electric vehicle, and heat pump adoption in rural areas in the United States	24
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	24
Emergent opportunities and barriers on the feasibility of microgrids: Qualitative findings from an Australian funding program	24
Energy-efficiency policies targeting consumers may not save energy in the long run: A rebound effect that cannot be ignored	24
The spatial dimension of coal phase-out: Exploring economic transformation and city pathways in Poland	24
Existing tools, user needs and required model adjustments for energy demand modelling of a carbon-neutral Europe	24
Transformative disruptiveness or transition? Revealing digitalization and deep decarbonization pathways in the Italian smart electricity meter roll-out	24
Strengthening the sustainability of rural electrification projects: Renewable energy, management models and energy transitions in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia	24
Stacked energyscapes: Conceptualizing fossil fuel and renewable energy entanglements in low-carbon transitions	24
Does the sun shine for all? Revealing socio-spatial inequalities in the transition to solar energy in The Hague, The Netherlands	24