Energy Research & Social Science

Article	Citations
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	451
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	263
Riding the wave of acceptance: Understanding factors in support for marine energy in the United States	249
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	220
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	167
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review	154
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	152
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing	150
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	145
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	126
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	124
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	119
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	116
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids	113
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi	112
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	110
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	108
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	103
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	98
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	88
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	87
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	86
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	86
Rethinking collaborative action and citizen empowerment: Characterising a Whole-of-Society approach to the energy transition	83
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	81

Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia	81
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	80
Editorial Board	80
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	79
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	77
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications	76
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	75
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	75
Editorial Board	75
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	74
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	73
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	73
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	72
Turning a coal state to a green state: Identifying themes of support and opposition to decarbonize the energy system in the United States	71
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom	70
Power dynamics, shifting roles, and learning: Exploring key actors in participation processes in the German energy transformation (Energiewende)	70
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	69
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	69
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	68
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	66
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	66
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	66
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa	65
What is nuclear cultural heritage? Developing an analytical framework	65
Rarely pure and never simple: Exploring perceptions of truth and objectivity in energy modelling and scenarios	64
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries	64
Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms	64
Towards an intersectional justice approach to carbon taxation: Energy poverty, vulnerable households, and revenue recycling in Ireland	62
Modeling stakeholder interactions for post-disaster electric power restoration: A multi-agent and game-theoretic approach	62
Measuring success: Evaluating the business model of rural mini-grid ecosystems	62
A stakeholder-centred narrative exploration on carbon capture, utilisation and storage: A systems thinking and participatory approach	62
Making the difficult easy: Reducing carbon footprint while preserving quality of life through effective behavior change	62
How do policies drive China's hydrogen energy industrialization? A comparative analysis of policy across central and regional governments (2016–2024)	60
Unjust or just unfortunate? Examining claims of procedural (in)justice in the pursuit of universal electricity access in Rwanda	60
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland	59
Solar aporias: On precarity and praxis in interdisciplinary research on solar energy	59
Community benefit agreements for solar energy: Examining values, preferences and perceived benefits in the United States using a discrete choice experiment	59
Norwegian–Polish carbon capture and storage network: Bilateral collaboration for European climate action	58
Does energy poverty impede job search success? Evidence from the unemployed in Australia	58
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand	58
Making energy renovations equitable: A literature review of decision-making criteria for a just energy transition in residential buildings	58
Cycles of adversity: Parental joblessness in childhood and energy poverty in adulthood	58
Product traits, decision-makers, and household low-carbon technology adoptions: moving beyond single empirical studies	57
Shifting sustainable lifestyle practices and behaviour during times of pandemic disruptive change: Implications for on-going socio-technical transitions	57
How can policy balance the goals of transition acceleration and justice? Permitting reform, large-scale renewable energy, and host communities in the United States	57
The solar influencer next door: Predicting low income solar referrals and leads	57
Editorial Board	56
Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic	56
Editorial Board	56
Falling short in 2030: Simulating battery-electric vehicle adoption behaviour in the Netherlands	56

Conceptualizing resilience: An energy services approach	55
What came first, the pellet or boiler? Interacting leverage points within a sociotechnical system in the United States	55
Understanding the social norms of cooling in Chinese offices: Predominance, professionalism, and peer respect	55
American policy conflict in the hothouse: Exploring the politics of climate inaction and polycentric rebellion	55
Between decentralization and reintermediation: Blockchain platforms and the governance of ‘commons-led’ and ‘business-led’ energy transitions	54
For the climate, my friends, or my region? An experimental field trial for prosumer engagement with peer-to-peer energy trading in Austria	54
Challenges of the current discourse on incumbent firms in sustainability transitions	54
Transitioning or tinkering at a net-zero economy? Introducing an assessment framework for industrial cluster decarbonisation in the United Kingdom	54
Future at play: Applying Reflexive Public Reason in the case of Taiwanese energy transition	53
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–2013	53
Getting the signal – Do electricity users meet the preconditions for making informed decisions on demand response?	53
Domestic electricity consumers and the interactive bill: design intervention for improved energy literacy and empowerment	53
Towards accessibility or affordability? Multidimensional energy poverty across the South African urban–rural divide	52
A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways	52
Divergent consumer preferences and visions for cooking and heating technologies in the United Kingdom: Make our homes clean, safe, warm and smart!	52
Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions and hydrogen pathways in Norway	52
Neighbourhood batteries in Australia: Anticipating questions of value conflict and (in)justice	51
Cultural norms to support gender equity in energy development: Grounding the productive use agenda in Rwanda	51
Pushing out or pulling in? The determinants of Chinese energy finance in developing countries	51
Deepening regional power connectivity: Beyond the industry-centric perspective	51
Together we're smart! Flemish and Dutch energy communities' replication strategies in smart grid experiments	50
Managing transition risk: Toward an interdisciplinary understanding of strategies in the oil industry	50
How to make building renovation work for low-income renters: Preferences for distributional principles and procedural options in Austria	50
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	49
Institutional entrepreneuring for energy poverty: The role of boundary work in developing a collaborative product-service system for household appliances	48
Overcoming barriers and seizing opportunities for smart meters in developing countries: Insights from a large-scale field study in India	48
Greenhouse gas neutrality: A qualitative analysis of perceived sustainability tensions in the German chemical industry	48
Pipelines and power: Psychological distress, political alienation, and the breakdown of environmental justice in government agencies' public participation processes	48
The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia	48
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality	48
The role of electric vehicle-to-X in net zero energy systems: A comprehensive review	47
Transport poverty vulnerability index: Making use of standardised databases	47
Carbon emissions in metal manufacturing productivity: A global analysis of aluminium smelting	47
Data donation: Using the gift relationship framework to address privacy and environmental issues of energy consumption data collection	47
Models like heroes? Making Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) ready for deep decarbonization and a socio-economic transformation	47
Public perceptions of heat decarbonisation in Great Britain: Awareness, values and the social circle effect	47
Intersectionality in good faith: Beyond normative claims and towards practical integration in energy justice research	46
Sustainable design of multiscale CO2 electrolysis: A value sensitive design-based approach	46
Electrifying company cars? The effects of incentives and tax benefits on electric vehicle sales in 31 European countries	46
Toward energy democracy: Municipal energy actions in local renewable energy projects	46
From innovation to integration: institutional design challenges for emerging energy storage technologies in the Netherlands	46
Role of street-level policy entrepreneurs in sustainability transition: Evidence from India's transition to LED lighting	46
Rushing for the gold of the energy transition: An empirical exploration of the relevance of landownership for the wind energy expansion in Germany	45
Navigating unchartered waters: Overcoming barriers to low-emission fuels in Swedish maritime cargo transport	45
Watered down justice: Experiences of the offshore wind transition in Northeast coastal communities in the United States	45
Do laundry when the sun shines: Factors that promote loadshifting in Dutch households with solar panels	45
Strengthening the foundations of energy justice scholarship: What can philosophy contribute?	45
Land acquisition, renewable energy development, and livelihood transformation in rural Kenya: The case of the Kipeto wind energy project	45
Beyond public acceptance: Towards systemic societal responsiveness of net zero infrastructures	44
Lacking the confidence of one's convictions: Gender differences in energy tariff literacy	44
One service fits all? Insights on demand response dilemmas of differently equipped households in Germany	44
Adjust the thermostat and eat more plants? Comparing energy and climate knowledge amongst botanical garden members	44
Psychological and social factors driving citizen involvement in renewable energy communities: A systematic review	44
Green recovery or fossil lock-in? Assessing sustainability and energy transition pathways in major economies	43
Facilitating gendered and socially inclusive energy transitions in sub-Saharan Africa	42
Beyond dark money: Information subsidies and complex networks of opposition to offshore wind on the U.S. East Coast	42
Australian microgrids: Navigating complexity in the regional energy transition	42
Palm trees, energy security and green hydrogen futures: Tourists' views on Mallorca's low carbon transition	41
Energy systems for Brazil's Amazon: Could renewable energy improve Indigenous livelihoods and save forest ecosystems?	41
Uneven transitions and disparate mobility patterns for South Africa’s electric paratransit	41
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	40
Hydrogen economies and energy futures: A new Australian dream?	40
Hedgehogs, foxes, blueprints, and skeletons: Untangling the murky complexity of theoretical and conceptual frameworks	40
Corrigendum to “Vested interests: Examining the political obstacles to power sector reform in twenty Indian states” [Energy Res. Soc. Sci. 70 (2020) 101766]	40
Cursed forever? Exploring socio-economic effects of nuclear power plant closures across nine communities in the United States	40
Energy justice in post-Paris India: Unpacking consensus and conflict through storylines and discourse coalitions	40
Editorial Board	40
Framing a gender transformative post-coal future for just transition: A feminist manifesto	40
What does Horizon 2020 contribute to? Analysing and visualising the community practices of Europe's largest research and innovation programme	40
Diversify or die: Strategy options for oil majors in the sustainable energy transition	40
India's state-led electricity transition: A review of techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives	39
Epistemic justice impossible? Expert perceptions of the participatory monitoring of geo-energy projects in Poland	39
Participation and sensemaking in electric vehicle field trials: A study of fleet vehicle-to-grid in Australia	39
Smooth sailing ahead? Policy options for China's new energy vehicle industry in the post-subsidy era	39
Innovators, followers and laggards in home solar PV: Factors driving diffusion in Finland	39
For security or sustainability? Investigating the global nexus of nuclear power, democracies, and civil society	38
Exploring the spatial characteristics of energy injustice: A comparison of the power generation landscapes in Spain, Denmark, and South Korea	38
Reviewing the opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the digitalization of energy	38

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	38
Engaged minority or quiet majority? Social intentions and actions related to offshore wind energy development in the United States	37
Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: A place-based research agenda	37
How to make energy efficiency labels more effective: Insights from discrete choice experiments in Ghana and the Philippines	37
Rethinking the position of natural gas in a low-carbon energy transition	37
Comparing sustainability transition labs across process, effects and impacts: Insights from Canada and Sweden	37
Visual observation or oral communication? The effect of social learning on solar photovoltaic adoption intention in rural China	37
In the shadow of nuclear dependency: Competing pathways and the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in France	36
Theorising resistance in times of fossil fuels: Ecological grief, righteous anger and interaction rituals in Sweden's energy regime shift	36
Enablers or barriers: The multifaceted tales of power generation companies in China's energy transition	36
Getting stakeholders aboard for offshore wind decommissioning: A qualitative study on end-of-life challenges in Belgium	36
Firewood, four wheelers, and chest freezers: The importance of modern energy to Alaska Native subsistence in Yedatene Na’	36
Opinion poles: Polarised views on energy developments in Canada's oil province	36
Preferences and perceived barriers to pursuing energy sovereignty and renewable energy: A tribal nations perspective	36
Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage	36
Corrigendum to “making space for environmental justice in renewable energy planning” [energy research & social science volume 118 (2024) 103806]	36
Gendered impacts of oil price shocks: analyzing women's labor force participation in petrostates	35
The market will save the day: White house narratives on liquefied natural gas exports to the European Union	35
What does Agrivoltaics mean? A study on social representations shared by experts and the press in Italy	35
The links and entanglements of energy vulnerability: Unpacking the consequences of the energy crisis in Denmark	35
Exploring district heating and cooling cultures, a systematic literature review	35
“Do you think that coal will finish?”: The (Im)possibilities of living with and without coal in a central Indian coalfield	35
Potentials and challenges of artificial intelligence-supported greenwashing detection in the energy sector	35
Embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power	34
Extending the prebound effect: the gap between healthy and actual energy consumption among low-income households in the global south	34
Disruptions and energy demand: How Finnish households responded to the energy crisis of 2022	34
Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure	34
Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition	34
Missing the mark: Avoiding community misengagement in large-scale solar development	34
Unveiling the power of social norms interventions: Investigating energy savings behavior in an Italian energy cooperative	34
AI-driven energy futures: Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries in the tech industry	34
The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement	34
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains	34
Harnessing the sun for agriculture: Pathways to the successful expansion of Agrivoltaic systems in East Africa	34
Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies	34
The 2022 energy and inflationary crises: Data, experiences and opinions of Spanish energy vulnerable households	34
Concentrated solar power plants: A critical review of regional dynamics and operational parameters	34
Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands	34
Acceptance in progress: Navigating the transition of nuclear power perception from a long-term study in China	33
The smart meets the conventional: Media storylines and societal frames on the energy action of housing cooperatives	33
Stop burning garbage! Exploring an anti-waste-to-energy social movement and its effects on local politics in Spain	32
Energy transitions on European islands: Exploring technical scenarios, markets and policy proposals in Denmark, Portugal and the United Kingdom	32
Civic activism and petition politics in energy transitions: Discursive tactics, networking, and media mobilization in an anti-nuclear movement in China	32
The just transition fund – Did the European Union learn from Europe's past transition experiences?	32
From theory to practice: Supporting industrial decarbonization and energy cooperation in Austria	32
Why energy models should integrate social and environmental factors: Assessing user needs, omission impacts, and real-word accuracy in the European Union	32
Opportunity, ideal or distraction? Exploring stakeholder perceptions of tackling energy poverty and vulnerability among older Australians	32
Mainstreaming gender in energy design practice: Insights from companies operating in sub-Saharan Africa's energy sector	32
Household and non-household factors influencing multidimensional energy poverty in Bangladesh: Demographics, urbanization and regional differentiation via a multilevel modeling approach	32
Much broader than health: Surveying the diverse co-benefits of energy demand reduction in Europe	32
Climate action or distraction? Exploring investor initiatives and implications for unextractable fossil fuels	31
Energy governance as a commons: Engineering alternative socio-technical configurations	31
What is energy literacy? Responding to vulnerability in Philadelphia's energy ecologies	31
When energy justice is contested: A systematic review of a decade of research on Sweden's conflicted energy landscape	31
Public risk perceptions of shale gas development: A comprehensive review	31
Moving beyond opportunity narratives in COVID-19 green recoveries: A comparative analysis of public investment plans in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom	31
Why are charging stations associated with electric vehicle adoption? Untangling effects in three United States metropolitan areas	31
Shockingly cold and electricity-dependent in a rich context: Energy poor households in Norway	31
Towards fair, just and equitable energy ecosystems through smart monitoring of household-scale biogas plants in Kenya	31
Taboos, toilets and biogas: Socio-technical pathways to acceptance of a sustainable household technology	31
Thinking, doing, organising: Prefiguring just and sustainable energy systems via collective prosumer ecosystems in Europe	31
Imagining a hydrogen economy: From grand technological utopia to enabler of the energy transition in three waves since the 1970s	30
‘Crafts are great, but not for me’: Reconnecting to the skilled trades crucial for building a low-carbon implementation workforce in academised societies	30
The eternal promise of carbon capture, utilisation and storage: Is there a business case?	30
A political economy analysis of the electricity sector in Côte d'Ivoire	30
Designing bio-based value chains for social justice: The potential of Capability Sensitive Design	30
Social perspectives of carbon capture, transportation, utilization, and storage in Switzerland	30
Just energy imaginaries? Examining realities of solar development on Pennsylvania's farmland	30
Between sunlight and sales: Market access constraints and conceptualizing the renewables pull effect	30
Triggering resistance: Contesting the injustices of solar park development in India	30
Climate obstruction at work: Right-wing populism and the German heating law	30
Re-configuring practices in times of energy crisis – A case study of Swedish households	30
Making energy justice work for women in rural sub-Saharan Africa: A quantitative diagnostic from Benin, Senegal, and Togo	30
Academic travel from above and below: Institutions, ideas, and interests shaping contemporary practices	29
Does the public want green hydrogen in industry? Local and national acceptance of methanol and steel transitions in Germany	29
The energy commons: A systematic review, paradoxes, and ways forward	29
Diverging paths, converging goals: Framing crisis to kairos in Bill Gates's and Greta Thunberg's climate discourse	29
Technology, people, and place in microgrids: Addressing perceptions and engagement challenges for a rural Australian town	29
Advancing theories on the scalar complexities of Green Sacrifice Zones	29
Trading cozy old homes for chilly new ones: How experiences and beliefs guide housing modernization in Northern Pakistan	29
Plugging in with neighbours: Defining the social dimension of electric vehicle charging in the Netherlands	29
Benchmarking and tailoring electric vehicle policies to stimulate adoption	29
The ontological dimension of energy security in Guatemala: Towards energy systems from below and with the Earth	29
Wasted expertise: Why retrofit should include residents	28
Why is it still too warm or cold in my house? Examining the relationships between energy efficient capital and household energy insecurity	28
Modelling governance for a successful electricity sector decarbonisation	28
Evidence-based climate impact: A financial product framework	28
Explaining climate change policy inertia: Policymaker perspectives on building energy efficiency in the United Kingdom	28
Overcoming political stalemates: The German stakeholder commission on phasing out coal	28
Reimagining net metering: A polycentric model for equitable solar adoption in the United States	28
“Become a Gas Leak Detective!” Evaluating a multigenerational citizen science program for connecting distribution pipelines to energy justice	28
How can energy prosumerism align with sufficiency and justice principles? A typology for policymakers, researchers and practitioners	28
Best of times, worst of times: record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequality	28
Sustainability is not a thing: It's hard work! Recognizing the middlemen of operations and maintenance for feminist energy systems in India's Sundarbans	28
From grey to green and from west to east: The geography and innovation trajectories of hydrogen fuel technologies	28