Energy Research & Social Science

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	360
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Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	198
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	193
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	188
Riding the wave of acceptance: Understanding factors in support for marine energy in the United States	187
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	172
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	153
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	145
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	138
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids	133
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	132
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	126
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review	116
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	116
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	113
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing	113
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	106
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	105
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	104
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	102
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	99
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	97
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	96
Integrating social justice criteria into multiscale spatial modeling of energy burden: A case study of four states in the United States	95

An invisible threat? Exploring the physical and mental health risks of coal air pollution in the United States	93
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	92
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	91
When beyond compliance is the expectation: the realities of environmental planning and permitting for renewable energy projects in the great plains of the United States	91
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi	90
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	89
The widening gap between copper supply and demand will have an impact on economic development and energy futures	85
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	84
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	83
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	83
Heat behind the hearth: Dalit women's thermal labour, nutritional trade-offs, and energy injustice in Madhesh Province, Nepal	83
A multi-dimensional framework for comparing zero-carbon energy sources in the energy transition	81
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	81
Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability and change in transitions	81
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	78
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	76
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	76
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	76
Mind the acceptability gap: Integrating lifestyle diversity into energy sufficiency analysis of the Swiss residential building stock	75
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	74
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 (1990	73
Deepening regional power connectivity: Beyond the industry-centric perspective	73
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	73
American policy conflict in the hothouse: Exploring the politics of climate inaction and polycentric rebellion	72
Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions and hydrogen pathways in Norway	71
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland	71
Unjust or just unfortunate? Examining claims of procedural (in)justice in the pursuit of universal electricity access in Rwanda	71
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa	70
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand	70
Community benefit agreements for solar energy: Examining values, preferences and perceived benefits in the United States using a discrete choice experiment	69
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–2013	69
Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic	69
Editorial Board	67
For the climate, my friends, or my region? An experimental field trial for prosumer engagement with peer-to-peer energy trading in Austria	67
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Making the difficult easy: Reducing carbon footprint while preserving quality of life through effective behavior change	66
Falling short in 2030: Simulating battery-electric vehicle adoption behaviour in the Netherlands	65
Transitioning or tinkering at a net-zero economy? Introducing an assessment framework for industrial cluster decarbonisation in the United Kingdom	65
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries	65
Divergent consumer preferences and visions for cooking and heating technologies in the United Kingdom: Make our homes clean, safe, warm and smart!	65
Domestic electricity consumers and the interactive bill: design intervention for improved energy literacy and empowerment	64
Shifting sustainable lifestyle practices and behaviour during times of pandemic disruptive change: Implications for on-going socio-technical transitions	64
Cycles of adversity: Parental joblessness in childhood and energy poverty in adulthood	64
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality	64
Winds of fortune? Understanding the geographic, sociodemographic, and temporal distribution of benefit mechanisms from land-based wind projects in the United States	63
Managing transition risk: Toward an interdisciplinary understanding of strategies in the oil industry	63
Does energy poverty impede job search success? Evidence from the unemployed in Australia	63
A stakeholder-centred narrative exploration on carbon capture, utilisation and storage: A systems thinking and participatory approach	61
Modeling stakeholder interactions for post-disaster electric power restoration: A multi-agent and game-theoretic approach	61
When oil companies race to the bottom: Environmental enforcement in theory and corporate impunity in practice in the Peruvian Amazon	61

Who uses power, who gets microgrids? Uncovering regional trends in energy consumption and microgrid deployment in California	60
Future at play: Applying Reflexive Public Reason in the case of Taiwanese energy transition	60
Between decentralization and reintermediation: Blockchain platforms and the governance of ‘commons-led’ and ‘business-led’ energy transitions	60
How are Indigenous groups participating in large renewable energy project co-ownership? Mapping global progress	59
The impact of geopolitical risks on the dynamic capabilities of Big Oil	58
Measuring success: Evaluating the business model of rural mini-grid ecosystems	57
Critical minerals and the shaping of Central Asian economies through the ages	57
Towards an intersectional justice approach to carbon taxation: Energy poverty, vulnerable households, and revenue recycling in Ireland	57
Designing effective demand response: A review of behavioral insights, consumer engagement, and operational strategies in energy systems	55
Getting the signal – Do electricity users meet the preconditions for making informed decisions on demand response?	55
Understanding the social norms of cooling in Chinese offices: Predominance, professionalism, and peer respect	54
Neighbourhood batteries in Australia: Anticipating questions of value conflict and (in)justice	54
Conceptualizing resilience: An energy services approach	54
How do policies drive China's hydrogen energy industrialization? A comparative analysis of policy across central and regional governments (2016–2024)	54
Can intelligent Renewable Energy Communities deliver on equity for a just energy transition? A policy oriented demonstrator analysis	53
Towards accessibility or affordability? Multidimensional energy poverty across the South African urban–rural divide	53
Rarely pure and never simple: Exploring perceptions of truth and objectivity in energy modelling and scenarios	53
Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms	53
What is nuclear cultural heritage? Developing an analytical framework	52
‘It's like going to the moon…’ exploring risk and stakeholder views of Iceland's Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT)	51
How can policy balance the goals of transition acceleration and justice? Permitting reform, large-scale renewable energy, and host communities in the United States	51
Data art to enhance users' pro-environmental behavior	51
Navigating Russia's war and energy transition: Poland's coal challenge	50
A forward looking perspective on the cement and concrete industry: Implications of growth and development in the Global South	50
Norwegian–Polish carbon capture and storage network: Bilateral collaboration for European climate action	49
Challenges of the current discourse on incumbent firms in sustainability transitions	49
Solar aporias: On precarity and praxis in interdisciplinary research on solar energy	49
Between efficiency and democracy: Explaining support and resistance towards energy transition and prosumer solutions in Polish and Czech housing cooperatives	49
Cultural norms to support gender equity in energy development: Grounding the productive use agenda in Rwanda	48
Making energy renovations equitable: A literature review of decision-making criteria for a just energy transition in residential buildings	48
Pipelines and power: Psychological distress, political alienation, and the breakdown of environmental justice in government agencies' public participation processes	48
Making assumptions and boundary choices visible in energy transition planning: Critical systems heuristics for reflexive interdisciplinary decision structuring	48
Quiet power: How security interests shape offshore wind and marine spatial planning in Sweden	48
Imagining agrivoltaics: Farmer expectations for co-locating solar energy and agricultural production in Western New York	48
The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia	47
Institutional entrepreneuring for energy poverty: The role of boundary work in developing a collaborative product-service system for household appliances	47
Together we're smart! Flemish and Dutch energy communities' replication strategies in smart grid experiments	47
Still muddling through: Local sustainability leaders and energy efficiency in rental units	46
Hydrogen economies and energy futures: A new Australian dream?	46
Lacking the confidence of one's convictions: Gender differences in energy tariff literacy	46
Comparing sustainability transition labs across process, effects and impacts: Insights from Canada and Sweden	46
Adjust the thermostat and eat more plants? Comparing energy and climate knowledge amongst botanical garden members	46
Do laundry when the sun shines: Factors that promote loadshifting in Dutch households with solar panels	45
Palm trees, energy security and green hydrogen futures: Tourists' views on Mallorca's low carbon transition	45
Theorising resistance in times of fossil fuels: Ecological grief, righteous anger and interaction rituals in Sweden's energy regime shift	44
Hedgehogs, foxes, blueprints, and skeletons: Untangling the murky complexity of theoretical and conceptual frameworks	44
Greenhouse gas neutrality: A qualitative analysis of perceived sustainability tensions in the German chemical industry	44
Smooth sailing ahead? Policy options for China's new energy vehicle industry in the post-subsidy era	44
Facilitating gendered and socially inclusive energy transitions in sub-Saharan Africa	44
Data donation: Using the gift relationship framework to address privacy and environmental issues of energy consumption data collection	43
What does Horizon 2020 contribute to? Analysing and visualising the community practices of Europe's largest research and innovation programme	43
Transport poverty vulnerability index: Making use of standardised databases	43
Role of street-level policy entrepreneurs in sustainability transition: Evidence from India's transition to LED lighting	43
In the shadow of nuclear dependency: Competing pathways and the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in France	43
Watered down justice: Experiences of the offshore wind transition in Northeast coastal communities in the United States	42
Epistemic justice impossible? Expert perceptions of the participatory monitoring of geo-energy projects in Poland	42
From innovation to integration: institutional design challenges for emerging energy storage technologies in the Netherlands	42
Energy justice in post-Paris India: Unpacking consensus and conflict through storylines and discourse coalitions	42
Uneven transitions and disparate mobility patterns for South Africa’s electric paratransit	42
Public perceptions of heat decarbonisation in Great Britain: Awareness, values and the social circle effect	41
Diagnosing and dismantling renewable lock-ins: Four decades of hydro-thermal path dependence in electricity systems	41
Innovators, followers and laggards in home solar PV: Factors driving diffusion in Finland	41
Cursed forever? Exploring socio-economic effects of nuclear power plant closures across nine communities in the United States	41
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	41
Carbon emissions in metal manufacturing productivity: A global analysis of aluminium smelting	41
Sustainable design of multiscale CO2 electrolysis: A value sensitive design-based approach	40
Intersectionality in good faith: Beyond normative claims and towards practical integration in energy justice research	40
People, priorities, and path dependencies: Governance lessons for demand-side flexibility in Great Britain's decarbonising electricity system	40
Is this drama called populism? A comparison of protagonists, allies, antagonists, and victims in the narratives of Polish and Hungarian energy experts	40
Energy systems for Brazil's Amazon: Could renewable energy improve Indigenous livelihoods and save forest ecosystems?	40
One service fits all? Insights on demand response dilemmas of differently equipped households in Germany	40
From pilot to reform: Institutional change through distributed solar experimentation in China	40
From tension to transformation in Dutch heat transitions: Leveraging time, transparency, and relationships	40
Beyond public acceptance: Towards systemic societal responsiveness of net zero infrastructures	40
Participation and sensemaking in electric vehicle field trials: A study of fleet vehicle-to-grid in Australia	40
Preferences and perceived barriers to pursuing energy sovereignty and renewable energy: A tribal nations perspective	39
Framing a gender transformative post-coal future for just transition: A feminist manifesto	39
Getting stakeholders aboard for offshore wind decommissioning: A qualitative study on end-of-life challenges in Belgium	39
Models like heroes? Making Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) ready for deep decarbonization and a socio-economic transformation	39
Governing beyond market and state: A grounded theory of public–commons partnerships in Spain's energy transition	38

Irish Traveller communities and energy poverty: Methodological reflections on human-centred and community-based research	38
Exploring the spatial characteristics of energy injustice: A comparison of the power generation landscapes in Spain, Denmark, and South Korea	38
Contentious pathways towards the energy transition in Barbados: A neo-Gramscian perspective	38
Rushing for the gold of the energy transition: An empirical exploration of the relevance of landownership for the wind energy expansion in Germany	38
The double materiality of Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund: An irreconcilable case of aligning the ‘oil fund’ with Net Zero?	38
Visual observation or oral communication? The effect of social learning on solar photovoltaic adoption intention in rural China	37
Rethinking the position of natural gas in a low-carbon energy transition	37
Land acquisition, renewable energy development, and livelihood transformation in rural Kenya: The case of the Kipeto wind energy project	37
Strengthening the foundations of energy justice scholarship: What can philosophy contribute?	37
Systematic Historical Analogue Research for Decision-making (SHARD): Introducing a new methodology for using historical case studies to inform low-carbon transitions	37
Psychological and social factors driving citizen involvement in renewable energy communities: A systematic review	37
Between panels and pastures: Socio-economic impacts of large-scale solar development on land use and rural livelihoods	36
Beyond dark money: Information subsidies and complex networks of opposition to offshore wind on the U.S. East Coast	36
Electrifying company cars? The effects of incentives and tax benefits on electric vehicle sales in 31 European countries	36
The landlord - property manager - tenant trilemma: Exploring the decision-making processes in decarbonising the rental housing market	36
Toward energy democracy: Municipal energy actions in local renewable energy projects	36
A comparative socio-technical multi-level perspective analysis of eCooking barriers in six informal settlements in Bangladesh and Zambia	36
India's state-led electricity transition: A review of techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives	35
Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: A place-based research agenda	35
The role of electric vehicle-to-X in net zero energy systems: A comprehensive review	35
Diversify or die: Strategy options for oil majors in the sustainable energy transition	35
Navigating unchartered waters: Overcoming barriers to low-emission fuels in Swedish maritime cargo transport	35
Strong plans, weak levers: Identifying institutional limits to reducing car dependence in Finland	35
Australian microgrids: Navigating complexity in the regional energy transition	35
Overcoming barriers and seizing opportunities for smart meters in developing countries: Insights from a large-scale field study in India	35
Green recovery or fossil lock-in? Assessing sustainability and energy transition pathways in major economies	35
When energy justice is contested: A systematic review of a decade of research on Sweden's conflicted energy landscape	34
Conceptualising social value in net zero governance: The case of Bristol City Leap	34
“Act local, Impact global”: Mapping the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in Greece and advancing social engagement planning processes	34
Opportunity, ideal or distraction? Exploring stakeholder perceptions of tackling energy poverty and vulnerability among older Australians	34
The links and entanglements of energy vulnerability: Unpacking the consequences of the energy crisis in Denmark	34
Energy transitions on European islands: Exploring technical scenarios, markets and policy proposals in Denmark, Portugal and the United Kingdom	34
Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage	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
The market will save the day: White house narratives on liquefied natural gas exports to the European Union	34
Affluence, Spatial Spillovers, and Inequality in Household Energy Transitions: Exploring the Determinants of Sustainable Technology Adoption in Ireland	34
Acceptance in progress: Navigating the transition of nuclear power perception from a long-term study in China	34
Why energy models should integrate social and environmental factors: Assessing user needs, omission impacts, and real-word accuracy in the European Union	34
The smart meets the conventional: Media storylines and societal frames on the energy action of housing cooperatives	33
Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands	33
What does Agrivoltaics mean? A study on social representations shared by experts and the press in Italy	33
AI-driven energy futures: Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries in the tech industry	33
“Do you think that coal will finish?”: The (Im)possibilities of living with and without coal in a central Indian coalfield	33
Integrate and embrace or isolate and hide? Using Q-method to understand how to incorporate large-scale solar in rural Nova Scotia, Canada	33
The 2022 energy and inflationary crises: Data, experiences and opinions of Spanish energy vulnerable households	33
Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies	33
Missing the mark: Avoiding community misengagement in large-scale solar development	33
Climate action or distraction? Exploring investor initiatives and implications for unextractable fossil fuels	33
The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement	33
Imagining a hydrogen economy: From grand technological utopia to enabler of the energy transition in three waves since the 1970s	32
Shockingly cold and electricity-dependent in a rich context: Energy poor households in Norway	32
The efficiency divide: Housing constraints on energy-saving practices in Darwin, Australia	32
Opinion poles: Polarised views on energy developments in Canada's oil province	32
Extra terra nullius: Off-worlding the externalities of AI, Bitcoin mining and cloud computing with Orbital Data Centres	32
What is energy literacy? Responding to vulnerability in Philadelphia's energy ecologies	32
When wind power is rejected: Sámi self-determination and restorative energy justice in Arctic Norway	32
Civic activism and petition politics in energy transitions: Discursive tactics, networking, and media mobilization in an anti-nuclear movement in China	32
Extending the prebound effect: the gap between healthy and actual energy consumption among low-income households in the global south	32
Firewood, four wheelers, and chest freezers: The importance of modern energy to Alaska Native subsistence in Yedatene Na’	32
Much broader than health: Surveying the diverse co-benefits of energy demand reduction in Europe	32
Designing bio-based value chains for social justice: The potential of Capability Sensitive Design	32
Exploring district heating and cooling cultures, a systematic literature review	32
The experience of darkness: Introducing energy uncertainty	32
Harnessing the sun for agriculture: Pathways to the successful expansion of Agrivoltaic systems in East Africa	32
Gendered impacts of oil price shocks: analyzing women's labor force participation in petrostates	32
Public risk perceptions of shale gas development: A comprehensive review	31
Enablers or barriers: The multifaceted tales of power generation companies in China's energy transition	31
Towards fair, just and equitable energy ecosystems through smart monitoring of household-scale biogas plants in Kenya	31
Unveiling the power of social norms interventions: Investigating energy savings behavior in an Italian energy cooperative	31
Why are charging stations associated with electric vehicle adoption? Untangling effects in three United States metropolitan areas	31
The just transition fund – Did the European Union learn from Europe's past transition experiences?	31
Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure	31
Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays	31
Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition	31
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains	31
Stop burning garbage! Exploring an anti-waste-to-energy social movement and its effects on local politics in Spain	31
From theory to practice: Supporting industrial decarbonization and energy cooperation in Austria	31
Potentials and challenges of artificial intelligence-supported greenwashing detection in the energy sector	31
Just energy imaginaries? Examining realities of solar development on Pennsylvania's farmland	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
Solar threads and social knots: Gender and energy transitions in the weaving community of Varanasi, India	30
Youth engagement in community renewable energy in northern and Indigenous communities: Lessons from Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and Frog Lake First Nation, Canada	30
Overcoming political stalemates: The German stakeholder commission on phasing out coal	30
Small hydropower, large obstacle? Exploring land use conflict, Indigenous opposition and acceptance in the Norwegian Arctic	30
“Become a Gas Leak Detective!” Evaluating a multigenerational citizen science program for connecting distribution pipelines to energy justice	30
Between sunlight and sales: Market access constraints and conceptualizing the renewables pull effect	30
Racing against the clock: Modeling the global transition to renewable energy technologies	30
Distributing less, redistributing more: Safe and just low-energy futures in the United Kingdom	30
Benchmarking and tailoring electric vehicle policies to stimulate adoption	30
Out of place, scale and time? Navigating injustices across mission arenas of the German Energiewende	30
Actions speak louder than words: Attitudes, behaviour, and partisan identity in a polarised environmental domain	30
Who should lead nuclear fusion research? Cross-national evidence on public–private governance preferences in Europe	30
Trading cozy old homes for chilly new ones: How experiences and beliefs guide housing modernization in Northern Pakistan	30