Energy Research & Social Science

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The political economy of socio-technical transitions: A relational view of the state and bus system decarbonization in the United Kingdom	341
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	203
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	200
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	180
Turning a coal state to a green state: Identifying themes of support and opposition to decarbonize the energy system in the United States	174
The politics of low-carbon innovation: Implementing the European Union’s strategic energy technology plan	160
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	152
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	144
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	135
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	132
Empowerment or employment? Uncovering the paradoxes of social entrepreneurship for women via Husk Power Systems in rural North India	118
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	115
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	113
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	108
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	103
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	103
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	94
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	93
Power dynamics, shifting roles, and learning: Exploring key actors in participation processes in the German energy transformation (Energiewende)	92
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	91
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications	90
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	88
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	83

Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	82
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	80
Rethinking collaborative action and citizen empowerment: Characterising a Whole-of-Society approach to the energy transition	79
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	78
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	75
Uncharted waters: Exploring coastal recreation impacts, coping behaviors, and attitudes towards offshore wind energy development in the United States	75
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	74
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	73
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	72
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	67
Does cash money solve energy poverty? Assessing the impact of household heating allowances in Spain	64
Strengthening the sustainability of rural electrification projects: Renewable energy, management models and energy transitions in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia	63
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	63
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	63
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	63
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom	62
Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia	61
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	61
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	61
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	61
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	61
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives: A review	61
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Future at play: Applying Reflexive Public Reason in the case of Taiwanese energy transition	57
What came first, the pellet or boiler? Interacting leverage points within a sociotechnical system in the United States	57
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–2013	57
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality	57
Neighbourhood batteries in Australia: Anticipating questions of value conflict and (in)justice	56
Between decentralization and reintermediation: Blockchain platforms and the governance of ‘commons-led’ and ‘business-led’ energy transitions	56
Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions and hydrogen pathways in Norway	56
Energy plans in practice: The making of thermal energy storage in urban Denmark	56
A stakeholder-centred narrative exploration on carbon capture, utilisation and storage: A systems thinking and participatory approach	55
Rooftop solar for all: Closing the gap between the technically possible and the achievable	55
Towards accessibility or affordability? Multidimensional energy poverty across the South African urban–rural divide	55
Navigating Russia's war and energy transition: Poland's coal challenge	54
Cycles of adversity: Parental joblessness in childhood and energy poverty in adulthood	54
Making energy renovations equitable: A literature review of decision-making criteria for a just energy transition in residential buildings	54
Measuring success: Evaluating the business model of rural mini-grid ecosystems	53
Deepening regional power connectivity: Beyond the industry-centric perspective	53
Pushing out or pulling in? The determinants of Chinese energy finance in developing countries	53
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries	53
How to make building renovation work for low-income renters: Preferences for distributional principles and procedural options in Austria	52
Electricity access in Mozambique: A critical policy analysis of investment, service reliability and social sustainability	52
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa	52
Actors and agency in district heating: Engaging with middle actor perspectives through future workshops	52
Managing transition risk: Toward an interdisciplinary understanding of strategies in the oil industry	52
Together we're smart! Flemish and Dutch energy communities' replication strategies in smart grid experiments	51
Pipelines and power: Psychological distress, political alienation, and the breakdown of environmental justice in government agencies' public participation processes	51
Domestic electricity consumers and the interactive bill: design intervention for improved energy literacy and empowerment	51

Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic	50
The solar influencer next door: Predicting low income solar referrals and leads	50
Shifting sustainable lifestyle practices and behaviour during times of pandemic disruptive change: Implications for on-going socio-technical transitions	50
Understanding the social norms of cooling in Chinese offices: Predominance, professionalism, and peer respect	50
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand	49
Product traits, decision-makers, and household low-carbon technology adoptions: moving beyond single empirical studies	49
Cultural norms to support gender equity in energy development: Grounding the productive use agenda in Rwanda	49
Challenges of the current discourse on incumbent firms in sustainability transitions	49
Transitioning or tinkering at a net-zero economy? Introducing an assessment framework for industrial cluster decarbonisation in the United Kingdom	48
Solar aporias: On precarity and praxis in interdisciplinary research on solar energy	48
Divergent consumer preferences and visions for cooking and heating technologies in the United Kingdom: Make our homes clean, safe, warm and smart!	48
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	47
A forward looking perspective on the cement and concrete industry: Implications of growth and development in the Global South	47
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland	46
American policy conflict in the hothouse: Exploring the politics of climate inaction and polycentric rebellion	46
Soaring sustainably: Promoting the uptake of sustainable aviation fuels during and post-pandemic	46
Conceptualizing resilience: An energy services approach	46
Community benefit agreements for solar energy: Examining values, preferences and perceived benefits in the United States using a discrete choice experiment	45
Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms	45
Getting the signal – Do electricity users meet the preconditions for making informed decisions on demand response?	45
Moderating spillover: Focusing on personal sustainable behavior rarely hinders and can boost climate policy support	45
Falling short in 2030: Simulating battery-electric vehicle adoption behaviour in the Netherlands	45
Why firewood? Exploring the co-benefits, socio-ecological interactions and indigenous knowledge surrounding cooking practice in rural Nepal	45
A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways	45
For the climate, my friends, or my region? An experimental field trial for prosumer engagement with peer-to-peer energy trading in Austria	45
Framing a gender transformative post-coal future for just transition: A feminist manifesto	45
Can active follow-ups and carrots make eco-driving stick? Findings from a controlled experiment among truck drivers in Norway	44
In the shadow of nuclear dependency: Competing pathways and the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in France	44
Theorising resistance in times of fossil fuels: Ecological grief, righteous anger and interaction rituals in Sweden's energy regime shift	44
Navigating unchartered waters: Overcoming barriers to low-emission fuels in Swedish maritime cargo transport	44
Role of street-level policy entrepreneurs in sustainability transition: Evidence from India's transition to LED lighting	44
Corrigendum to “Vested interests: Examining the political obstacles to power sector reform in twenty Indian states” [Energy Res. Soc. Sci. 70 (2020) 101766]	44
Uneven transitions and disparate mobility patterns for South Africa’s electric paratransit	44
Energy justice in post-Paris India: Unpacking consensus and conflict through storylines and discourse coalitions	44
Land acquisition, renewable energy development, and livelihood transformation in rural Kenya: The case of the Kipeto wind energy project	44
The role of electric vehicle-to-X in net zero energy systems: A comprehensive review	43
Greenhouse gas neutrality: A qualitative analysis of perceived sustainability tensions in the German chemical industry	43
Rethinking the position of natural gas in a low-carbon energy transition	43
Exploring the spatial characteristics of energy injustice: A comparison of the power generation landscapes in Spain, Denmark, and South Korea	42
India's state-led electricity transition: A review of techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives	42
Reviewing the opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the digitalization of energy	42
Transport poverty vulnerability index: Making use of standardised databases	42
Participation and sensemaking in electric vehicle field trials: A study of fleet vehicle-to-grid in Australia	42
Systematic Historical Analogue Research for Decision-making (SHARD): Introducing a new methodology for using historical case studies to inform low-carbon transitions	41
What influences public acceptability of sustainable energy policies? The crucial role of funding and who benefits	41
Strengthening the foundations of energy justice scholarship: What can philosophy contribute?	41
Visual observation or oral communication? The effect of social learning on solar photovoltaic adoption intention in rural China	41
One service fits all? Insights on demand response dilemmas of differently equipped households in Germany	41
Innovators, followers and laggards in home solar PV: Factors driving diffusion in Finland	41
Diversify or die: Strategy options for oil majors in the sustainable energy transition	41
Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management	41
How to make energy efficiency labels more effective: Insights from discrete choice experiments in Ghana and the Philippines	40
Beyond dark money: Information subsidies and complex networks of opposition to offshore wind on the U.S. East Coast	40
Overcoming barriers and seizing opportunities for smart meters in developing countries: Insights from a large-scale field study in India	40
Rushing for the gold of the energy transition: An empirical exploration of the relevance of landownership for the wind energy expansion in Germany	40
Australian microgrids: Navigating complexity in the regional energy transition	40
Institutional entrepreneuring for energy poverty: The role of boundary work in developing a collaborative product-service system for household appliances	39
Intersectionality in good faith: Beyond normative claims and towards practical integration in energy justice research	39
Institutions to the rescue: Untangling industrial fragmentation, institutional misalignment, and political constraints in the Russian gas pipeline industry	38
Hedgehogs, foxes, blueprints, and skeletons: Untangling the murky complexity of theoretical and conceptual frameworks	38
Engaged minority or quiet majority? Social intentions and actions related to offshore wind energy development in the United States	38
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Public perceptions of heat decarbonisation in Great Britain: Awareness, values and the social circle effect	38
Do laundry when the sun shines: Factors that promote loadshifting in Dutch households with solar panels	37
Comparing sustainability transition labs across process, effects and impacts: Insights from Canada and Sweden	37
Watered down justice: Experiences of the offshore wind transition in Northeast coastal communities in the United States	37
For security or sustainability? Investigating the global nexus of nuclear power, democracies, and civil society	37
Electrifying company cars? The effects of incentives and tax benefits on electric vehicle sales in 31 European countries	37
Getting stakeholders aboard for offshore wind decommissioning: A qualitative study on end-of-life challenges in Belgium	37
Toward energy democracy: Municipal energy actions in local renewable energy projects	37
Hydrogen economies and energy futures: A new Australian dream?	36
What does Horizon 2020 contribute to? Analysing and visualising the community practices of Europe's largest research and innovation programme	36
Data donation: Using the gift relationship framework to address privacy and environmental issues of energy consumption data collection	36
Towards a psychology of solar energy: Analyzing the effects of the Big Five personality traits on household solar energy adoption in Germany	36
Palm trees, energy security and green hydrogen futures: Tourists' views on Mallorca's low carbon transition	36
Smooth sailing ahead? Policy options for China's new energy vehicle industry in the post-subsidy era	35
Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: A place-based research agenda	35
Preferences and perceived barriers to pursuing energy sovereignty and renewable energy: A tribal nations perspective	35
The smart meets the conventional: Media storylines and societal frames on the energy action of housing cooperatives	35
Cursed forever? Exploring socio-economic effects of nuclear power plant closures across nine communities in the United States	35

Epistemic justice impossible? Expert perceptions of the participatory monitoring of geo-energy projects in Poland	35
Out of sight, out of mind? The importance of local context and trust in understanding the social acceptance of biogas projects: A global scale review	35
Models like heroes? Making Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) ready for deep decarbonization and a socio-economic transformation	35
Sustainable design of multiscale CO2 electrolysis: A value sensitive design-based approach	35
Energy systems for Brazil's Amazon: Could renewable energy improve Indigenous livelihoods and save forest ecosystems?	35
Civic activism and petition politics in energy transitions: Discursive tactics, networking, and media mobilization in an anti-nuclear movement in China	34
‘If the gas runs out, we are not going to sleep hungry’: Exploring household energy choices in India’s critically polluted coal belt	34
Shifting patterns of expectations management in innovation policy: A comparative analysis of solar energy policy in the United States, Japan and Germany	34
Concentrated solar power plants: A critical review of regional dynamics and operational parameters	34
Stop burning garbage! Exploring an anti-waste-to-energy social movement and its effects on local politics in Spain	34
Thinking, doing, organising: Prefiguring just and sustainable energy systems via collective prosumer ecosystems in Europe	34
The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement	34
A marriage of convenience or necessity? Research and policy implications for electrifying upstream petroleum production systems with renewables	34
Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies	34
The links and entanglements of energy vulnerability: Unpacking the consequences of the energy crisis in Denmark	34
The just transition fund – Did the European Union learn from Europe's past transition experiences?	34
Enablers or barriers: The multifaceted tales of power generation companies in China's energy transition	34
Acceptance in progress: Navigating the transition of nuclear power perception from a long-term study in China	34
Public risk perceptions of shale gas development: A comprehensive review	34
Corrigendum to “making space for environmental justice in renewable energy planning” [energy research & social science volume 118 (2024) 103806]	34
Mainstreaming gender in energy design practice: Insights from companies operating in sub-Saharan Africa's energy sector	34
Climate action or distraction? Exploring investor initiatives and implications for unextractable fossil fuels	33
What does Agrivoltaics mean? A study on social representations shared by experts and the press in Italy	33
Much broader than health: Surveying the diverse co-benefits of energy demand reduction in Europe	33
What is energy literacy? Responding to vulnerability in Philadelphia's energy ecologies	33
Moving beyond opportunity narratives in COVID-19 green recoveries: A comparative analysis of public investment plans in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom	33
From theory to practice: Supporting industrial decarbonization and energy cooperation in Austria	33
What shapes Norwegian wind power policy? Analysing the constructing forces of policymaking and emerging questions of energy justice	33
Energy governance as a commons: Engineering alternative socio-technical configurations	32
Taboos, toilets and biogas: Socio-technical pathways to acceptance of a sustainable household technology	32
Energy transitions on European islands: Exploring technical scenarios, markets and policy proposals in Denmark, Portugal and the United Kingdom	32
Why energy models should integrate social and environmental factors: Assessing user needs, omission impacts, and real-word accuracy in the European Union	32
Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition	32
When energy justice is contested: A systematic review of a decade of research on Sweden's conflicted energy landscape	32
Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage	32
Potentials and challenges of artificial intelligence-supported greenwashing detection in the energy sector	32
The 2022 energy and inflationary crises: Data, experiences and opinions of Spanish energy vulnerable households	32
Harnessing the sun for agriculture: Pathways to the successful expansion of Agrivoltaic systems in East Africa	32
Why are charging stations associated with electric vehicle adoption? Untangling effects in three United States metropolitan areas	32
Dancing with complexity: Making sense of decarbonisation, decentralisation, digitalisation and democratisation	32
Disruptions and energy demand: How Finnish households responded to the energy crisis of 2022	32
Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure	31
Just energy imaginaries? Examining realities of solar development on Pennsylvania's farmland	31
When the lights go out: Californians’ experience with wildfire-related public safety power shutoffs increases intention to adopt solar and storage	31
Shockingly cold and electricity-dependent in a rich context: Energy poor households in Norway	31
Triggering resistance: Contesting the injustices of solar park development in India	31
Unveiling the power of social norms interventions: Investigating energy savings behavior in an Italian energy cooperative	31
Socially constructed or physiologically informed? Placing humans at the core of understanding cooling needs	31
Why is it still too warm or cold in my house? Examining the relationships between energy efficient capital and household energy insecurity	31
Designing bio-based value chains for social justice: The potential of Capability Sensitive Design	31
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains	31
Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands	31
Household and non-household factors influencing multidimensional energy poverty in Bangladesh: Demographics, urbanization and regional differentiation via a multilevel modeling approach	31
Embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power	31
Opportunity, ideal or distraction? Exploring stakeholder perceptions of tackling energy poverty and vulnerability among older Australians	31
Towards fair, just and equitable energy ecosystems through smart monitoring of household-scale biogas plants in Kenya	31
“Become a Gas Leak Detective!” Evaluating a multigenerational citizen science program for connecting distribution pipelines to energy justice	30
The ontological dimension of energy security in Guatemala: Towards energy systems from below and with the Earth	30
What is the value of peer-to-peer energy trading? A discrete choice experiment with residential electricity users in Colombia	30
Filming the atom: Systematically exploring images of nuclear energy and their messages in popular movies	30
Enabling a just energy transition through solidarity in research	30
Faster or slower decarbonization? Policymaker and stakeholder expectations on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global energy transition	30
Evidence-based climate impact: A financial product framework	30
Rebalancing climate finance: Analysing multilateral development banks' allocation practices	30
Trading cozy old homes for chilly new ones: How experiences and beliefs guide housing modernization in Northern Pakistan	29
Diverging paths, converging goals: Framing crisis to kairos in Bill Gates's and Greta Thunberg's climate discourse	29
A political economy analysis of the electricity sector in Côte d'Ivoire	29
Pumping up adoption: The role of policy awareness in explaining willingness to adopt heat pumps in Canada	29
Reimagining net metering: A polycentric model for equitable solar adoption in the United States	29
Making energy justice work for women in rural sub-Saharan Africa: A quantitative diagnostic from Benin, Senegal, and Togo	29
The micropolitical life of energy projects: A collaborative exploration of injustice and resistance to small hydropower projects in the Wallmapu, Southern Chile	29
Plugging in with neighbours: Defining the social dimension of electric vehicle charging in the Netherlands	29
Actions speak louder than words: Attitudes, behaviour, and partisan identity in a polarised environmental domain	29
Are religious individuals against renewables? Exploring religious beliefs and support for government investment in energy transitions in the United States	29
Sustainability is not a thing: It's hard work! Recognizing the middlemen of operations and maintenance for feminist energy systems in India's Sundarbans	29
Social perspectives of carbon capture, transportation, utilization, and storage in Switzerland	29
Rethinking the dynamics of innovation, science, and technology: The curious case of Stirling engines and Stirling refrigerators	29
Modelling governance for a successful electricity sector decarbonisation	29
A History of Energy and Societal Scenarios for a World in Transition: Fifty Years of Personal Experience with Shell and Other Organisations	29
How can energy prosumerism align with sufficiency and justice principles? A typology for policymakers, researchers and practitioners	28
Integrating sociotechnical and spatial imaginaries in researching energy futures	28
Climate obstruction at work: Right-wing populism and the German heating law	28
Understanding climate activism: Who participates in climate marches such as “Fridays for Future” and what can we learn from it?	28
Overcoming political stalemates: The German stakeholder commission on phasing out coal	28
Academic travel from above and below: Institutions, ideas, and interests shaping contemporary practices	28
“Fixing” the nuclear waste problem? The new political economy of spent fuel management in the United States	28
Technological innovation enables low cost climate change mitigation	27
Does the public want green hydrogen in industry? Local and national acceptance of methanol and steel transitions in Germany	27
Enabling equitable energy access for Mozambique? Heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Maputo's growing urban periphery	27
Beyond the social license to operate: Whole system approaches for a socially responsible mining industry	27
Green growth for whom, how and why? The REPowerEU Plan and the inconsistencies of European Union energy policy	27
Just transition: A conceptual review	27
Solar energy development on farmland: Three prevalent perspectives of conflict, synergy and compromise in the United States	27
Innovation and legacy in energy knowledge infrastructures	27
From grey to green and from west to east: The geography and innovation trajectories of hydrogen fuel technologies	27