Energy Research & Social Science

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	424
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Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	235
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	231
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	209
Strengthening the sustainability of rural electrification projects: Renewable energy, management models and energy transitions in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia	183
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	182
Empowerment or employment? Uncovering the paradoxes of social entrepreneurship for women via Husk Power Systems in rural North India	160
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	145
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	144
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	142
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	136
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	129
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	117
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications	117
The political economy of socio-technical transitions: A relational view of the state and bus system decarbonization in the United Kingdom	110
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom	108
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	107
Power dynamics, shifting roles, and learning: Exploring key actors in participation processes in the German energy transformation (Energiewende)	106
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	103
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	100
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing	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	91
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	87
Turning a coal state to a green state: Identifying themes of support and opposition to decarbonize the energy system in the United States	82

Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	81
Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia	79
Rethinking collaborative action and citizen empowerment: Characterising a Whole-of-Society approach to the energy transition	78
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	78
Does cash money solve energy poverty? Assessing the impact of household heating allowances in Spain	77
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	77
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	76
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	76
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	75
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	73
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	72
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	72
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review	72
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	71
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	71
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	70
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	69
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	68
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	68
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	66
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives: A review	66
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	66
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	65
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi	65
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids	64
Editorial Board	63
Editorial Board	63
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality	62
What came first, the pellet or boiler? Interacting leverage points within a sociotechnical system in the United States	62
A stakeholder-centred narrative exploration on carbon capture, utilisation and storage: A systems thinking and participatory approach	61
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries	61
What is nuclear cultural heritage? Developing an analytical framework	61
Cycles of adversity: Parental joblessness in childhood and energy poverty in adulthood	61
Deepening regional power connectivity: Beyond the industry-centric perspective	61
Between decentralization and reintermediation: Blockchain platforms and the governance of ‘commons-led’ and ‘business-led’ energy transitions	60
Divergent consumer preferences and visions for cooking and heating technologies in the United Kingdom: Make our homes clean, safe, warm and smart!	60
Challenges of the current discourse on incumbent firms in sustainability transitions	59
Pushing out or pulling in? The determinants of Chinese energy finance in developing countries	59
Community benefit agreements for solar energy: Examining values, preferences and perceived benefits in the United States using a discrete choice experiment	58
Rooftop solar for all: Closing the gap between the technically possible and the achievable	57
Solar aporias: On precarity and praxis in interdisciplinary research on solar energy	57
Measuring success: Evaluating the business model of rural mini-grid ecosystems	56
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland	56
How to make building renovation work for low-income renters: Preferences for distributional principles and procedural options in Austria	56
Making energy renovations equitable: A literature review of decision-making criteria for a just energy transition in residential buildings	55
Cultural norms to support gender equity in energy development: Grounding the productive use agenda in Rwanda	55
Understanding the social norms of cooling in Chinese offices: Predominance, professionalism, and peer respect	55
Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms	55
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–2013	54
Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions and hydrogen pathways in Norway	54

Together we're smart! Flemish and Dutch energy communities' replication strategies in smart grid experiments	54
Navigating Russia's war and energy transition: Poland's coal challenge	54
American policy conflict in the hothouse: Exploring the politics of climate inaction and polycentric rebellion	54
Product traits, decision-makers, and household low-carbon technology adoptions: moving beyond single empirical studies	53
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand	53
Neighbourhood batteries in Australia: Anticipating questions of value conflict and (in)justice	53
The solar influencer next door: Predicting low income solar referrals and leads	53
Actors and agency in district heating: Engaging with middle actor perspectives through future workshops	53
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa	53
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	52
Managing transition risk: Toward an interdisciplinary understanding of strategies in the oil industry	52
Energy plans in practice: The making of thermal energy storage in urban Denmark	52
Pipelines and power: Psychological distress, political alienation, and the breakdown of environmental justice in government agencies' public participation processes	51
Conceptualizing resilience: An energy services approach	51
Future at play: Applying Reflexive Public Reason in the case of Taiwanese energy transition	51
Domestic electricity consumers and the interactive bill: design intervention for improved energy literacy and empowerment	51
Getting the signal – Do electricity users meet the preconditions for making informed decisions on demand response?	51
Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic	51
Towards an intersectional justice approach to carbon taxation: Energy poverty, vulnerable households, and revenue recycling in Ireland	50
Towards accessibility or affordability? Multidimensional energy poverty across the South African urban–rural divide	50
Shifting sustainable lifestyle practices and behaviour during times of pandemic disruptive change: Implications for on-going socio-technical transitions	50
Transitioning or tinkering at a net-zero economy? Introducing an assessment framework for industrial cluster decarbonisation in the United Kingdom	50
Norwegian–Polish carbon capture and storage network: Bilateral collaboration for European climate action	49
For the climate, my friends, or my region? An experimental field trial for prosumer engagement with peer-to-peer energy trading in Austria	49
A forward looking perspective on the cement and concrete industry: Implications of growth and development in the Global South	49
Unjust or just unfortunate? Examining claims of procedural (in)justice in the pursuit of universal electricity access in Rwanda	48
Falling short in 2030: Simulating battery-electric vehicle adoption behaviour in the Netherlands	48
Making the difficult easy: Reducing carbon footprint while preserving quality of life through effective behavior change	47
A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways	47
Modeling stakeholder interactions for post-disaster electric power restoration: A multi-agent and game-theoretic approach	47
How do policies drive China's hydrogen energy industrialization? A comparative analysis of policy across central and regional governments (2016–2024)	47
Rarely pure and never simple: Exploring perceptions of truth and objectivity in energy modelling and scenarios	47
The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia	46
Corrigendum to “Vested interests: Examining the political obstacles to power sector reform in twenty Indian states” [Energy Res. Soc. Sci. 70 (2020) 101766]	46
Uneven transitions and disparate mobility patterns for South Africa’s electric paratransit	46
Greenhouse gas neutrality: A qualitative analysis of perceived sustainability tensions in the German chemical industry	45
Overcoming barriers and seizing opportunities for smart meters in developing countries: Insights from a large-scale field study in India	45
Role of street-level policy entrepreneurs in sustainability transition: Evidence from India's transition to LED lighting	45
Intersectionality in good faith: Beyond normative claims and towards practical integration in energy justice research	45
The role of electric vehicle-to-X in net zero energy systems: A comprehensive review	45
Land acquisition, renewable energy development, and livelihood transformation in rural Kenya: The case of the Kipeto wind energy project	44
Public perceptions of heat decarbonisation in Great Britain: Awareness, values and the social circle effect	44
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Models like heroes? Making Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) ready for deep decarbonization and a socio-economic transformation	44
Institutional entrepreneuring for energy poverty: The role of boundary work in developing a collaborative product-service system for household appliances	44
What does Horizon 2020 contribute to? Analysing and visualising the community practices of Europe's largest research and innovation programme	44
Energy justice in post-Paris India: Unpacking consensus and conflict through storylines and discourse coalitions	44
Comparing sustainability transition labs across process, effects and impacts: Insights from Canada and Sweden	43
Toward energy democracy: Municipal energy actions in local renewable energy projects	43
Systematic Historical Analogue Research for Decision-making (SHARD): Introducing a new methodology for using historical case studies to inform low-carbon transitions	43
One service fits all? Insights on demand response dilemmas of differently equipped households in Germany	43
In the shadow of nuclear dependency: Competing pathways and the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in France	43
Hedgehogs, foxes, blueprints, and skeletons: Untangling the murky complexity of theoretical and conceptual frameworks	43
Do laundry when the sun shines: Factors that promote loadshifting in Dutch households with solar panels	43
Participation and sensemaking in electric vehicle field trials: A study of fleet vehicle-to-grid in Australia	42
Sustainable design of multiscale CO2 electrolysis: A value sensitive design-based approach	42
Smooth sailing ahead? Policy options for China's new energy vehicle industry in the post-subsidy era	42
For security or sustainability? Investigating the global nexus of nuclear power, democracies, and civil society	42
Psychological and social factors driving citizen involvement in renewable energy communities: A systematic review	42
Hydrogen economies and energy futures: A new Australian dream?	42
Cursed forever? Exploring socio-economic effects of nuclear power plant closures across nine communities in the United States	41
What influences public acceptability of sustainable energy policies? The crucial role of funding and who benefits	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
Innovators, followers and laggards in home solar PV: Factors driving diffusion in Finland	41
Epistemic justice impossible? Expert perceptions of the participatory monitoring of geo-energy projects in Poland	41
Diversify or die: Strategy options for oil majors in the sustainable energy transition	41
Energy systems for Brazil's Amazon: Could renewable energy improve Indigenous livelihoods and save forest ecosystems?	41
Transport poverty vulnerability index: Making use of standardised databases	40
Getting stakeholders aboard for offshore wind decommissioning: A qualitative study on end-of-life challenges in Belgium	40
India's state-led electricity transition: A review of techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives	40
Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management	40
Framing a gender transformative post-coal future for just transition: A feminist manifesto	39
Institutions to the rescue: Untangling industrial fragmentation, institutional misalignment, and political constraints in the Russian gas pipeline industry	39
From innovation to integration: institutional design challenges for emerging energy storage technologies in the Netherlands	39
Beyond dark money: Information subsidies and complex networks of opposition to offshore wind on the U.S. East Coast	38
Navigating unchartered waters: Overcoming barriers to low-emission fuels in Swedish maritime cargo transport	38
Australian microgrids: Navigating complexity in the regional energy transition	38
Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: A place-based research agenda	38
Theorising resistance in times of fossil fuels: Ecological grief, righteous anger and interaction rituals in Sweden's energy regime shift	38
Visual observation or oral communication? The effect of social learning on solar photovoltaic adoption intention in rural China	38

How to make energy efficiency labels more effective: Insights from discrete choice experiments in Ghana and the Philippines	38
Engaged minority or quiet majority? Social intentions and actions related to offshore wind energy development in the United States	37
Palm trees, energy security and green hydrogen futures: Tourists' views on Mallorca's low carbon transition	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
Strengthening the foundations of energy justice scholarship: What can philosophy contribute?	37
Electrifying company cars? The effects of incentives and tax benefits on electric vehicle sales in 31 European countries	37
Data donation: Using the gift relationship framework to address privacy and environmental issues of energy consumption data collection	37
Green recovery or fossil lock-in? Assessing sustainability and energy transition pathways in major economies	36
Beyond public acceptance: Towards systemic societal responsiveness of net zero infrastructures	36
Rushing for the gold of the energy transition: An empirical exploration of the relevance of landownership for the wind energy expansion in Germany	36
Facilitating gendered and socially inclusive energy transitions in sub-Saharan Africa	36
Adjust the thermostat and eat more plants? Comparing energy and climate knowledge amongst botanical garden members	36
Rethinking the position of natural gas in a low-carbon energy transition	36
Lacking the confidence of one's convictions: Gender differences in energy tariff literacy	36
Reviewing the opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the digitalization of energy	36
Watered down justice: Experiences of the offshore wind transition in Northeast coastal communities in the United States	36
Shifting patterns of expectations management in innovation policy: A comparative analysis of solar energy policy in the United States, Japan and Germany	35
Enablers or barriers: The multifaceted tales of power generation companies in China's energy transition	35
Designing bio-based value chains for social justice: The potential of Capability Sensitive Design	35
Opinion poles: Polarised views on energy developments in Canada's oil province	35
The links and entanglements of energy vulnerability: Unpacking the consequences of the energy crisis in Denmark	35
Opportunity, ideal or distraction? Exploring stakeholder perceptions of tackling energy poverty and vulnerability among older Australians	35
Disruptions and energy demand: How Finnish households responded to the energy crisis of 2022	35
Gendered impacts of oil price shocks: analyzing women's labor force participation in petrostates	34
Corrigendum to “making space for environmental justice in renewable energy planning” [energy research & social science volume 118 (2024) 103806]	34
Taboos, toilets and biogas: Socio-technical pathways to acceptance of a sustainable household technology	34
The smart meets the conventional: Media storylines and societal frames on the energy action of housing cooperatives	34
The 2022 energy and inflationary crises: Data, experiences and opinions of Spanish energy vulnerable households	34
Firewood, four wheelers, and chest freezers: The importance of modern energy to Alaska Native subsistence in Yedatene Na’	34
Towards fair, just and equitable energy ecosystems through smart monitoring of household-scale biogas plants in Kenya	33
Civic activism and petition politics in energy transitions: Discursive tactics, networking, and media mobilization in an anti-nuclear movement in China	33
Mainstreaming gender in energy design practice: Insights from companies operating in sub-Saharan Africa's energy sector	33
Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands	33
Triggering resistance: Contesting the injustices of solar park development in India	33
Stop burning garbage! Exploring an anti-waste-to-energy social movement and its effects on local politics in Spain	33
Why energy models should integrate social and environmental factors: Assessing user needs, omission impacts, and real-word accuracy in the European Union	33
Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage	33
Shockingly cold and electricity-dependent in a rich context: Energy poor households in Norway	33
Climate action or distraction? Exploring investor initiatives and implications for unextractable fossil fuels	33
From theory to practice: Supporting industrial decarbonization and energy cooperation in Austria	32
Just energy imaginaries? Examining realities of solar development on Pennsylvania's farmland	32
Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition	32
Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies	32
Energy transitions on European islands: Exploring technical scenarios, markets and policy proposals in Denmark, Portugal and the United Kingdom	32
Harnessing the sun for agriculture: Pathways to the successful expansion of Agrivoltaic systems in East Africa	32
Unveiling the power of social norms interventions: Investigating energy savings behavior in an Italian energy cooperative	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
Thinking, doing, organising: Prefiguring just and sustainable energy systems via collective prosumer ecosystems in Europe	32
Energy governance as a commons: Engineering alternative socio-technical configurations	31
Imagining a hydrogen economy: From grand technological utopia to enabler of the energy transition in three waves since the 1970s	31
‘If the gas runs out, we are not going to sleep hungry’: Exploring household energy choices in India’s critically polluted coal belt	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
What does Agrivoltaics mean? A study on social representations shared by experts and the press in Italy	31
When energy justice is contested: A systematic review of a decade of research on Sweden's conflicted energy landscape	31
Embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power	31
Public risk perceptions of shale gas development: A comprehensive review	31
Potentials and challenges of artificial intelligence-supported greenwashing detection in the energy sector	31
Dancing with complexity: Making sense of decarbonisation, decentralisation, digitalisation and democratisation	30
When the lights go out: Californians’ experience with wildfire-related public safety power shutoffs increases intention to adopt solar and storage	30
“Do you think that coal will finish?”: The (Im)possibilities of living with and without coal in a central Indian coalfield	30
Why are charging stations associated with electric vehicle adoption? Untangling effects in three United States metropolitan areas	30
The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement	30
Concentrated solar power plants: A critical review of regional dynamics and operational parameters	30
The just transition fund – Did the European Union learn from Europe's past transition experiences?	30
The market will save the day: White house narratives on liquefied natural gas exports to the European Union	30
Acceptance in progress: Navigating the transition of nuclear power perception from a long-term study in China	30
Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure	30
What is energy literacy? Responding to vulnerability in Philadelphia's energy ecologies	30
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains	30
“Become a Gas Leak Detective!” Evaluating a multigenerational citizen science program for connecting distribution pipelines to energy justice	30
A marriage of convenience or necessity? Research and policy implications for electrifying upstream petroleum production systems with renewables	30
Diverging paths, converging goals: Framing crisis to kairos in Bill Gates's and Greta Thunberg's climate discourse	29
Fleeting energy protections: State and utility level policy responses to energy poverty in the United States during COVID-19	29
Overcoming political stalemates: The German stakeholder commission on phasing out coal	29
Filming the atom: Systematically exploring images of nuclear energy and their messages in popular movies	29
Are religious individuals against renewables? Exploring religious beliefs and support for government investment in energy transitions in the United States	29
Enabling a just energy transition through solidarity in research	29
Enabling equitable energy access for Mozambique? Heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Maputo's growing urban periphery	29
Evidence-based climate impact: A financial product framework	29
Beyond the social license to operate: Whole system approaches for a socially responsible mining industry	29
What is the value of peer-to-peer energy trading? A discrete choice experiment with residential electricity users in Colombia	29
Measuring organizational resilience: Tracing disruptive events facing unconventional oil and gas enterprise performance in the Americas	29
Innovation and legacy in energy knowledge infrastructures	28
Rethinking the dynamics of innovation, science, and technology: The curious case of Stirling engines and Stirling refrigerators	28
Making energy justice work for women in rural sub-Saharan Africa: A quantitative diagnostic from Benin, Senegal, and Togo	28
Social perspectives of carbon capture, transportation, utilization, and storage in Switzerland	28
Technological innovation enables low cost climate change mitigation	28
Trading cozy old homes for chilly new ones: How experiences and beliefs guide housing modernization in Northern Pakistan	28
Re-configuring practices in times of energy crisis – A case study of Swedish households	28
Climate obstruction at work: Right-wing populism and the German heating law	28
Plugging in with neighbours: Defining the social dimension of electric vehicle charging in the Netherlands	28
Small hydropower, large obstacle? Exploring land use conflict, Indigenous opposition and acceptance in the Norwegian Arctic	27
Why is it still too warm or cold in my house? Examining the relationships between energy efficient capital and household energy insecurity	27