Energy Research & Social Science

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	299
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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	173
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	158
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	150
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	144
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	138
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	128
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review	123
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing	121
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	116
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	116
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	115
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	111
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	106
Integrating social justice criteria into multiscale spatial modeling of energy burden: A case study of four states in the United States	103
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	101
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	99
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	98
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi	96
Heat behind the hearth: Dalit women's thermal labour, nutritional trade-offs, and energy injustice in Madhesh Province, Nepal	93
Mind the acceptability gap: Integrating lifestyle diversity into energy sufficiency analysis of the Swiss residential building stock	93
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	93
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	89

Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	87
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	86
A multi-dimensional framework for comparing zero-carbon energy sources in the energy transition	85
An invisible threat? Exploring the physical and mental health risks of coal air pollution in the United States	84
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	84
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	84
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	82
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	79
The widening gap between copper supply and demand will have an impact on economic development and energy futures	79
Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability and change in transitions	78
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	78
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids	77
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	76
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	76
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	76
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	74
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	74
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	73
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	71
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	70
Beyond four walls and a roof: Developing a holistic housing framework to explore energy precarity based on the lived experience of households in a small Canadian town	70
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	70
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	70
Deepening regional power connectivity: Beyond the industry-centric perspective	69
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand	67
Unjust or just unfortunate? Examining claims of procedural (in)justice in the pursuit of universal electricity access in Rwanda	67
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–2013	66
Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic	66
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa	66
Making the difficult easy: Reducing carbon footprint while preserving quality of life through effective behavior change	65
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Falling short in 2030: Simulating battery-electric vehicle adoption behaviour in the Netherlands	65
For the climate, my friends, or my region? An experimental field trial for prosumer engagement with peer-to-peer energy trading in Austria	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
Divergent consumer preferences and visions for cooking and heating technologies in the United Kingdom: Make our homes clean, safe, warm and smart!	64
Cycles of adversity: Parental joblessness in childhood and energy poverty in adulthood	64
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality	63
When oil companies race to the bottom: Environmental enforcement in theory and corporate impunity in practice in the Peruvian Amazon	63
Managing transition risk: Toward an interdisciplinary understanding of strategies in the oil industry	63
Between decentralization and reintermediation: Blockchain platforms and the governance of ‘commons-led’ and ‘business-led’ energy transitions	61
A stakeholder-centred narrative exploration on carbon capture, utilisation and storage: A systems thinking and participatory approach	61
Future at play: Applying Reflexive Public Reason in the case of Taiwanese energy transition	60
Who uses power, who gets microgrids? Uncovering regional trends in energy consumption and microgrid deployment in California	60
How are Indigenous groups participating in large renewable energy project co-ownership? Mapping global progress	59
Measuring success: Evaluating the business model of rural mini-grid ecosystems	58
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
Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms	56
Designing effective demand response: A review of behavioral insights, consumer engagement, and operational strategies in energy systems	56

Neighbourhood batteries in Australia: Anticipating questions of value conflict and (in)justice	56
Can intelligent Renewable Energy Communities deliver on equity for a just energy transition? A policy oriented demonstrator analysis	56
Understanding the social norms of cooling in Chinese offices: Predominance, professionalism, and peer respect	56
What is nuclear cultural heritage? Developing an analytical framework	55
Challenges of the current discourse on incumbent firms in sustainability transitions	54
Data art to enhance users' pro-environmental behavior	54
‘It's like going to the moon…’ exploring risk and stakeholder views of Iceland's Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT)	54
How can policy balance the goals of transition acceleration and justice? Permitting reform, large-scale renewable energy, and host communities in the United States	54
Navigating Russia's war and energy transition: Poland's coal challenge	54
Between efficiency and democracy: Explaining support and resistance towards energy transition and prosumer solutions in Polish and Czech housing cooperatives	52
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland	52
Community benefit agreements for solar energy: Examining values, preferences and perceived benefits in the United States using a discrete choice experiment	51
Norwegian–Polish carbon capture and storage network: Bilateral collaboration for European climate action	51
Winds of fortune? Understanding the geographic, sociodemographic, and temporal distribution of benefit mechanisms from land-based wind projects in the United States	51
Does energy poverty impede job search success? Evidence from the unemployed in Australia	50
Making energy renovations equitable: A literature review of decision-making criteria for a just energy transition in residential buildings	50
Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions and hydrogen pathways in Norway	50
Solar aporias: On precarity and praxis in interdisciplinary research on solar energy	50
Getting the signal – Do electricity users meet the preconditions for making informed decisions on demand response?	49
Rarely pure and never simple: Exploring perceptions of truth and objectivity in energy modelling and scenarios	49
Modeling stakeholder interactions for post-disaster electric power restoration: A multi-agent and game-theoretic approach	49
Imagining agrivoltaics: Farmer expectations for co-locating solar energy and agricultural production in Western New York	48
The impact of geopolitical risks on the dynamic capabilities of Big Oil	48
Transitioning or tinkering at a net-zero economy? Introducing an assessment framework for industrial cluster decarbonisation in the United Kingdom	47
Quiet power: How security interests shape offshore wind and marine spatial planning in Sweden	47
Making assumptions and boundary choices visible in energy transition planning: Critical systems heuristics for reflexive interdisciplinary decision structuring	47
A forward looking perspective on the cement and concrete industry: Implications of growth and development in the Global South	46
Pipelines and power: Psychological distress, political alienation, and the breakdown of environmental justice in government agencies' public participation processes	46
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries	46
Conceptualizing resilience: An energy services approach	45
The COVID-19 legacy: Indoor air quality, thermal comfort and energy use in english classrooms	45
How do policies drive China's hydrogen energy industrialization? A comparative analysis of policy across central and regional governments (2016–2024)	45
Towards accessibility or affordability? Multidimensional energy poverty across the South African urban–rural divide	45
One service fits all? Insights on demand response dilemmas of differently equipped households in Germany	44
Do laundry when the sun shines: Factors that promote loadshifting in Dutch households with solar panels	44
Institutional entrepreneuring for energy poverty: The role of boundary work in developing a collaborative product-service system for household appliances	44
Participation and sensemaking in electric vehicle field trials: A study of fleet vehicle-to-grid in Australia	44
Strong plans, weak levers: Identifying institutional limits to reducing car dependence in Finland	43
Systematic Historical Analogue Research for Decision-making (SHARD): Introducing a new methodology for using historical case studies to inform low-carbon transitions	43
Palm trees, energy security and green hydrogen futures: Tourists' views on Mallorca's low carbon transition	43
Hydrogen economies and energy futures: A new Australian dream?	43
Green recovery or fossil lock-in? Assessing sustainability and energy transition pathways in major economies	43
The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia	42
Lacking the confidence of one's convictions: Gender differences in energy tariff literacy	42
Land acquisition, renewable energy development, and livelihood transformation in rural Kenya: The case of the Kipeto wind energy project	42
Adjust the thermostat and eat more plants? Comparing energy and climate knowledge amongst botanical garden members	42
Greenhouse gas neutrality: A qualitative analysis of perceived sustainability tensions in the German chemical industry	41
Theorising resistance in times of fossil fuels: Ecological grief, righteous anger and interaction rituals in Sweden's energy regime shift	41
Facilitating gendered and socially inclusive energy transitions in sub-Saharan Africa	41
Still muddling through: Local sustainability leaders and energy efficiency in rental units	41
Hedgehogs, foxes, blueprints, and skeletons: Untangling the murky complexity of theoretical and conceptual frameworks	41
Diagnosing and dismantling renewable lock-ins: Four decades of hydro-thermal path dependence in electricity systems	40
People, priorities, and path dependencies: Governance lessons for demand-side flexibility in Great Britain's decarbonising electricity system	40
Data donation: Using the gift relationship framework to address privacy and environmental issues of energy consumption data collection	40
From innovation to integration: institutional design challenges for emerging energy storage technologies in the Netherlands	40
Carbon emissions in metal manufacturing productivity: A global analysis of aluminium smelting	40
Watered down justice: Experiences of the offshore wind transition in Northeast coastal communities in the United States	40
What does Horizon 2020 contribute to? Analysing and visualising the community practices of Europe's largest research and innovation programme	40
Role of street-level policy entrepreneurs in sustainability transition: Evidence from India's transition to LED lighting	40
From pilot to reform: Institutional change through distributed solar experimentation in China	40
Epistemic justice impossible? Expert perceptions of the participatory monitoring of geo-energy projects in Poland	40
Energy justice in post-Paris India: Unpacking consensus and conflict through storylines and discourse coalitions	40
Is this drama called populism? A comparison of protagonists, allies, antagonists, and victims in the narratives of Polish and Hungarian energy experts	39
Energy systems for Brazil's Amazon: Could renewable energy improve Indigenous livelihoods and save forest ecosystems?	39
From tension to transformation in Dutch heat transitions: Leveraging time, transparency, and relationships	39
Getting stakeholders aboard for offshore wind decommissioning: A qualitative study on end-of-life challenges in Belgium	39
Between panels and pastures: Socio-economic impacts of large-scale solar development on land use and rural livelihoods	38
Sustainable design of multiscale CO2 electrolysis: A value sensitive design-based approach	38
Rethinking the position of natural gas in a low-carbon energy transition	38
A comparative socio-technical multi-level perspective analysis of eCooking barriers in six informal settlements in Bangladesh and Zambia	38
The landlord - property manager - tenant trilemma: Exploring the decision-making processes in decarbonising the rental housing market	38
Overcoming barriers and seizing opportunities for smart meters in developing countries: Insights from a large-scale field study in India	37
Exploring the spatial characteristics of energy injustice: A comparison of the power generation landscapes in Spain, Denmark, and South Korea	37
Preferences and perceived barriers to pursuing energy sovereignty and renewable energy: A tribal nations perspective	37
Rushing for the gold of the energy transition: An empirical exploration of the relevance of landownership for the wind energy expansion in Germany	37
Navigating unchartered waters: Overcoming barriers to low-emission fuels in Swedish maritime cargo transport	37
Framing a gender transformative post-coal future for just transition: A feminist manifesto	37
Australian microgrids: Navigating complexity in the regional energy transition	36
Contentious pathways towards the energy transition in Barbados: A neo-Gramscian perspective	36
The double materiality of Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund: An irreconcilable case of aligning the ‘oil fund’ with Net Zero?	36

Governing beyond market and state: A grounded theory of public–commons partnerships in Spain's energy transition	36
Beyond dark money: Information subsidies and complex networks of opposition to offshore wind on the U.S. East Coast	36
Irish Traveller communities and energy poverty: Methodological reflections on human-centred and community-based research	36
India's state-led electricity transition: A review of techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives	35
Cursed forever? Exploring socio-economic effects of nuclear power plant closures across nine communities in the United States	35
In the shadow of nuclear dependency: Competing pathways and the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in France	35
Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: A place-based research agenda	35
Beyond public acceptance: Towards systemic societal responsiveness of net zero infrastructures	35
Diversify or die: Strategy options for oil majors in the sustainable energy transition	35
Visual observation or oral communication? The effect of social learning on solar photovoltaic adoption intention in rural China	35
Smooth sailing ahead? Policy options for China's new energy vehicle industry in the post-subsidy era	35
Transport poverty vulnerability index: Making use of standardised databases	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
Psychological and social factors driving citizen involvement in renewable energy communities: A systematic review	35
Strengthening the foundations of energy justice scholarship: What can philosophy contribute?	35
Models like heroes? Making Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) ready for deep decarbonization and a socio-economic transformation	35
From path dependence to path creation: How China's incumbent power generators navigate the energy transition?	34
Mainstreaming gender in energy design practice: Insights from companies operating in sub-Saharan Africa's energy sector	34
Innovators, followers and laggards in home solar PV: Factors driving diffusion in Finland	34
The role of electric vehicle-to-X in net zero energy systems: A comprehensive review	34
Toward energy democracy: Municipal energy actions in local renewable energy projects	34
Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage	34
“Act local, Impact global”: Mapping the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in Greece and advancing social engagement planning processes	34
Electrifying company cars? The effects of incentives and tax benefits on electric vehicle sales in 31 European countries	34
Public perceptions of heat decarbonisation in Great Britain: Awareness, values and the social circle effect	34
From promise to practice: What makes community benefits agreements enforceable?	34
Acceptance in progress: Navigating the transition of nuclear power perception from a long-term study in China	34
Corrigendum to “making space for environmental justice in renewable energy planning” [energy research & social science volume 118 (2024) 103806]	34
Intersectionality in good faith: Beyond normative claims and towards practical integration in energy justice research	34
Uneven transitions and disparate mobility patterns for South Africa’s electric paratransit	34
Affluence, Spatial Spillovers, and Inequality in Household Energy Transitions: Exploring the Determinants of Sustainable Technology Adoption in Ireland	33
The smart meets the conventional: Media storylines and societal frames on the energy action of housing cooperatives	33
When wind power is rejected: Sámi self-determination and restorative energy justice in Arctic Norway	33
Civic activism and petition politics in energy transitions: Discursive tactics, networking, and media mobilization in an anti-nuclear movement in China	33
The links and entanglements of energy vulnerability: Unpacking the consequences of the energy crisis in Denmark	33
Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies	33
Exploring district heating and cooling cultures, a systematic literature review	33
The experience of darkness: Introducing energy uncertainty	33
“Do you think that coal will finish?”: The (Im)possibilities of living with and without coal in a central Indian coalfield	33
The market will save the day: White house narratives on liquefied natural gas exports to the European Union	33
Shockingly cold and electricity-dependent in a rich context: Energy poor households in Norway	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 efficiency divide: Housing constraints on energy-saving practices in Darwin, Australia	32
Gendered impacts of oil price shocks: analyzing women's labor force participation in petrostates	32
Potentials and challenges of artificial intelligence-supported greenwashing detection in the energy sector	32
Why energy models should integrate social and environmental factors: Assessing user needs, omission impacts, and real-word accuracy in the European Union	32
Extra terra nullius: Off-worlding the externalities of AI, Bitcoin mining and cloud computing with Orbital Data Centres	32
Opinion poles: Polarised views on energy developments in Canada's oil province	32
From theory to practice: Supporting industrial decarbonization and energy cooperation in Austria	32
Stop burning garbage! Exploring an anti-waste-to-energy social movement and its effects on local politics in Spain	32
Enablers or barriers: The multifaceted tales of power generation companies in China's energy transition	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
Just energy imaginaries? Examining realities of solar development on Pennsylvania's farmland	32
Towards fair, just and equitable energy ecosystems through smart monitoring of household-scale biogas plants in Kenya	32
When energy justice is contested: A systematic review of a decade of research on Sweden's conflicted energy landscape	31
Imagining a hydrogen economy: From grand technological utopia to enabler of the energy transition in three waves since the 1970s	31
Missing the mark: Avoiding community misengagement in large-scale solar development	31
What is energy literacy? Responding to vulnerability in Philadelphia's energy ecologies	31
Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands	31
Energy transitions on European islands: Exploring technical scenarios, markets and policy proposals in Denmark, Portugal and the United Kingdom	31
Household and non-household factors influencing multidimensional energy poverty in Bangladesh: Demographics, urbanization and regional differentiation via a multilevel modeling approach	31
What does Agrivoltaics mean? A study on social representations shared by experts and the press in Italy	31
Much broader than health: Surveying the diverse co-benefits of energy demand reduction in Europe	31
Unveiling the power of social norms interventions: Investigating energy savings behavior in an Italian energy cooperative	31
Disruptions and energy demand: How Finnish households responded to the energy crisis of 2022	31
The 2022 energy and inflationary crises: Data, experiences and opinions of Spanish energy vulnerable households	30
Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure	30
Climate action or distraction? Exploring investor initiatives and implications for unextractable fossil fuels	30
Designing bio-based value chains for social justice: The potential of Capability Sensitive Design	30
Embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power	30
Conceptualising social value in net zero governance: The case of Bristol City Leap	30
Opportunity, ideal or distraction? Exploring stakeholder perceptions of tackling energy poverty and vulnerability among older Australians	30
The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement	30
Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays	30
Harnessing the sun for agriculture: Pathways to the successful expansion of Agrivoltaic systems in East Africa	30
Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition	30
The just transition fund – Did the European Union learn from Europe's past transition experiences?	30
Out of place, scale and time? Navigating injustices across mission arenas of the German Energiewende	29
Youth engagement in community renewable energy in northern and Indigenous communities: Lessons from Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and Frog Lake First Nation, Canada	29
Distributing less, redistributing more: Safe and just low-energy futures in the United Kingdom	29
Explaining climate change policy inertia: Policymaker perspectives on building energy efficiency in the United Kingdom	29
The “Atoms Family”: Using United States export licenses to analyze the geopolitical dynamics of nuclear fuel supplies	29
Why is it still too warm or cold in my house? Examining the relationships between energy efficient capital and household energy insecurity	29
Solar threads and social knots: Gender and energy transitions in the weaving community of Varanasi, India	29
Who should lead nuclear fusion research? Cross-national evidence on public–private governance preferences in Europe	29
Trading cozy old homes for chilly new ones: How experiences and beliefs guide housing modernization in Northern Pakistan	29
Identifying the deep drivers of system change: A rule-based approach to socio-technical system mapping	29
“Become a Gas Leak Detective!” Evaluating a multigenerational citizen science program for connecting distribution pipelines to energy justice	29
Actions speak louder than words: Attitudes, behaviour, and partisan identity in a polarised environmental domain	29
Racing against the clock: Modeling the global transition to renewable energy technologies	29
Small hydropower, large obstacle? Exploring land use conflict, Indigenous opposition and acceptance in the Norwegian Arctic	29
Missing voices in the nuclear renaissance: Energy justice and techno-optimist framing in Netflix's Inside Bill's Brain	29
AI-driven energy futures: Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries in the tech industry	29
The energy commons: A systematic review, paradoxes, and ways forward	28