Energy Research & Social Science

Article	Citations
The social dimension of renewable energy storage in electricity markets: The role of partnerships	366
Editorial Board	332
Rethinking path dependence, technical innovation and social practices in a renewable energy future	329
Power dynamics, shifting roles, and learning: Exploring key actors in participation processes in the German energy transformation (Energiewende)	201
The how and what of bottom-up governance to change household energy consumption behaviour	184
Editorial Board	174
Oil, fish, and livelihoods: Narratives of hydrocarbon benefits and gendered relations in Ghana	170
Are Dutch homeowners willing to invest in sustainable heating systems? Comparing intentions and determinants in four scenarios	156
Labour implications of the net-zero transition and clean energy exports in Australia	146
Explaining energy transition: A systemic social mechanisms approach illustrated with the examples of Germany and Poland	138
Understanding structural, governance and regulatory incentives for improved utility performance: Learning from Umeme Ltd in Uganda	131
Supply sunspots and shadows: Business siting patterns and inequitable rooftop solar adoption in the United States	130
Editorial Board	110
Editorial Board	109
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	108
Enabling Indigenous-centred decision-making for a just energy transition? Lessons from community consultation and consent in the circumpolar Arctic	103
Weak states, fast transitions? Exploring the role of actors, governance capacity, and tensions in Indian energy politics	102
Frontlining energy justice: Visioning principles for energy transitions from community-based organizations in the United States	99
Context matters: Unpacking decision-making, external influences and spatial factors on clean cooking transitions in Nepal	92
Halfway up the ladder: Developer practices and perspectives on community engagement for utility-scale renewable energy in the United States	91
Reprint of: The privilege of learning and serendipity: My principles of publishing research for a new academic era	90
Editorial Board	90
Editorial Board	88
Interrelations between security and the zero‑carbon energy transition in the Finnish and Norwegian Arctic	86
How will I know about local energy projects? A conjoint-analysis of communication preferences in Germany	86

Corrigendum to “Large inequalities in climate mitigation scenarios are not supported by theories of distributive justice” [Energy Res. Soc. Sci. 118 (2024) 103813]	81
The intangible technological innovation system: The role and influence of voluntary and compliance carbon markets on carbon dioxide removal in the European Union	77
Editorial Board	76
Uncharted waters: Exploring coastal recreation impacts, coping behaviors, and attitudes towards offshore wind energy development in the United States	75
Why energy return on energy investment is not useful for policy	75
The forgotten half: Men’s influence over cookstove adoption decisions in Northern Kenya	75
Predicting attitudes towards fusion energy in Europe: Results of a cross-national public survey in Austria, Finland, Spain and the UK	72
The politics of low-carbon innovation: Implementing the European Union’s strategic energy technology plan	71
Villain or victim? Framing strategies and legitimation practices in the Russian perspective on the European Union’s Third Energy Package	71
Political strategies in energy transitions: Exploring power dynamics, repertories of interest groups and wind energy pathways in Brazil	71
How work patterns affect leisure activities and energy consumption: A time-use analysis for Finland and France	70
High-rise residential building makeovers: Improving renovation quality in the United Kingdom and Canada through systemic analysis	65
Understanding policy divergence after United Kingdom devolution: Strategic action fields in Scottish energy efficiency policy	63
Empowerment or employment? Uncovering the paradoxes of social entrepreneurship for women via Husk Power Systems in rural North India	62
The political economy of socio-technical transitions: A relational view of the state and bus system decarbonization in the United Kingdom	61
Renewable energy development on the Indigenous Estate: Free, prior and informed consent and best practice in agreement-making in Australia	60
Citizen perceptions of fracking-related earthquakes: Exploring the roles of institutional failures and resource loss in Oklahoma, United States	60
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	59
Communication breakdown: Energy efficiency recommendations to address the disconnect between building operators and occupants	59
Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia	59
I did my bit! The impact of electric vehicle adoption on compensatory beliefs and norms in Norway	59
Not paid to dance at the powwow: Power relations, community benefits, and wind energy in M’Chigeeng First Nation, Ontario, Canada	59
Getting emotional or cognitive on social media? Analyzing renewable energy technologies in Instagram posts	58
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	58
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	58
Beneath your feet and in your place: Multi-scalar imaginaries of energy, place, and local geothermal development	57
Fintech RE in a global finance centre: Expert perceptions of the benefits of and challenges to digital financing of distributed and decentralised renewables in Hong Kong	57
Automated and absent: How people and households are accounted for in industry energy scenarios	56
Punctuated shifts or incremental change? A comparative analysis of U.S. state-level renewable energy mandates	56
David against Goliath? Challenges and opportunities for energy cooperatives in Southern Europe	56
Ready or not, here it comes: Assessing the gaps in community plans for renewable energy transitions within the United States	56
First and last and always: Politics of the ‘energy efficiency first’ principle in EU energy and climate policy	56
Priorities and relevance of bioenergy sustainability indicators: A participatory selection framework applied to community-based forestry in Mexico	55
Leveraging realities of saving energy at home: Contributions of co-design to behavioural interventions	55
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	54
Defusing a carbon bomb: Exploring the strategies of anti-fracking activists in Mexico	54
How to support the adoption of open-source energy system modelling software? Insights from interviews with users and developers	53
Acceptance dynamics of innovation diffusion: A heuristic framework for analysing actor reorientations in sustainability transitions	53
A just transition or just a transition? The understanding and relevance of fairness in planning for a decarbonised transport system	53
The clock is ticking: Understanding the ‘mixed feelings’ about fusion energy in Europe	52
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	52
Just transitions: Towards more just research	52
Solar masculinities from the south: Patriarchal and ethnoreligious authoritarianism through solar infrastructures in Turkey and India	51
Sharing a car with your next-door neighbor: Motivations and barriers to adoption of low-carbon mobility in Israel	51
Are subsidies market manipulation? The politics of electricity market hybridization in the United States	51
Fair enough? Unraveling justice perspectives on Germany's energy system transformation	50
Decarbonization and social justice: The case for artisanal and small-scale mining	50
Placing the intangible: Space, nuclear power and social sciences	50
The paradox of permission: Why governments allow foreign actors to promote solar energy projects in disputed cities	50
The politics of carbon management in Austria: Emerging fault lines on carbon capture, storage, utilization and removal	50

Taking the car out of the countryside: Understanding opposition to climate policy in rural Finland	50
Expanding European fossil-based plastic production in a time of socio-ecological crisis: A neo-Gramscian perspective	50
A framework for considering decarbonisation risks emerging from low-carbon hydrogen supply chains	50
Landlords' accounts of retrofit: A relational approach in the private rented sector in England	49
Flexibility justice: Exploring the relationship between electrical vehicle charging behaviors, demand flexibility and psychological factors	49
Is ‘eliminating’ remote diesel-generation just? Inuit energy, power, and resistance in off-grid communities of NunatuKavut	49
Co-creating a community visioning methodology for energy transitions: Principles, practices, and reflections	48
Institutional work after hype: The case of biogas in Germany	48
Grid expectations: How service design and business model innovation can support mini-grid development in Kenya	48
Policy stagnation or reevaluation? Exploring the regulatory dimensions of carbon capture, utilisation and storage in Finland and the Baltic countries	48
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	48
‘Although it's my home, it's not my house’ – Exploring impacts of retrofits with social housing residents	47
Energy subsidies versus cash transfers: the causal effect of misperceptions on public support for countermeasures during the energy crisis	47
“Rural exploitation” in solar energy development? A field survey experiment in South Korea on solar energy support in rural areas	46
All's fair in love and WAR: The conduct of wind acceptance research (WAR) in the United States and Canada	46
Capital endowments: Explaining energy citizenship using Bourdieu's forms of capital	46
Exploring the nexus of gender and energy transitions: A systematic literature review	46
The effects of institutional layering on electricity sector reform: Lessons from Norway's electricity sector	46
Bold ambition, blunted agency? Examining top management perspectives on a circular economy transition in Finland	45
Mapping risk and benefit perceptions of energy sources: Comparing public and expert mental models in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore	45
Racing to the last barrel: Linking oil and gas industry interests to climate inaction in Canada	45
More transitions, less risk: How renewable energy reduces risks from mining, trade and political dependence	45
Hydropower benefit-sharing and resettlement: A conceptual review	45
Technology to the rescue? Techno-scientific practices in the United Kingdom Net Zero Strategy and their role in locking in high energy decarbonisation pathways	44
An institutional framework for energy transitions: Lessons from the Nigerian electricity industry history	44
What is the role of energy communities in tackling energy poverty? Measures, barriers and potential in the Netherlands	44
“Electricity is result of my good deeds”: An analysis of the benefit of rural electrification from the women's perspective in rural Nepal	44
Stacked energyscapes: Conceptualizing fossil fuel and renewable energy entanglements in low-carbon transitions	44
Community vulnerability is the key determinant of diverse energy burdens in the United States	44
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	43
Five grand challenges of offshore wind financing in the United States	43
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	43
How can local energy communities promote sustainable development in European cities?	43
Competing claims on land in the solar age: Valorising capital or Country in Australia?	43
Valuing the value: An affordances perspective on new models in the electricity market	43
Analysing perspectives on capital, mutual, and general interest: A comparative study of energy cooperatives in Belgium and in Italy	43
Clean energy for all? Mapping inequity potential in the clean energy transition in the United States	43
How to increase cookstove adoption? Exploring cost-effective dissemination techniques in Central Mozambique	43
Spatial distributive justice has many faces: The case of siting renewable energy infrastructures	42
Tackling the challenge of interdisciplinary energy research: A research toolkit	42
Cloud-based energy management systems: Terminologies, concepts and definitions	42
Let it Flow, Our Energy or Bright Future: Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy transition in Poland	41
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	41
Newspaper discourses shore up an unviable energy technology: Algae biofuels in the United States	41
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications	41
Energy communities, distributed generation, renewable sources: Close relatives or potential friends?	41
Are the impacts of wind energy reversible? Critically reviewing the research literature, the governance challenges and presenting an agenda for social science	41
Is cheap gasoline killing us? Fuel subsidies and under-taxation as a driver of obesity and public health problems worldwide	41
Energy taxes recycling as an instrument for the mitigation of the expenditure on energy products of vulnerable households in the European Union	41
Does local ownership matter? A comparative analysis of fourteen wind energy projects in the Netherlands	40
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	40
Leveraging geospatial data to evaluate women's employment opportunities in the renewable energy sector	40
The politics of renewable energy transition in Ghana: Issues, obstacles and prospects	40
Scaling up solar cooking studies: A modeling framework for planning sustainable transition of the bakery sector	40
Greening Polish transportation? Untangling the nexus between electric mobility and a carbon-based regime	39
Vigilant conservation: How energy insecure households navigate cumulative and administrative burdens	39
Gendered sociotechnical imaginaries: Understanding the role of masculinities in Portugal's pursuit of multi-scalar solar energy transitions	39
Emergent opportunities and barriers on the feasibility of microgrids: Qualitative findings from an Australian funding program	38
Planning energy interventions in buildings and tackling fuel poverty: Can two birds be fed with one scone?	38
“We have a lot to say about loadshedding”: Exploring citizen engagements and perceptions on power cuts in South Africa	38
I could but I don't: What does it take to adopt pro-environmental behaviors in the United States?	38
Cut-off and forgotten?: Livelihood disruption, social impacts and food insecurity arising from the East African Crude Oil Pipeline	38
The great equalizer: Inequality in tribal energy access and policies to address it	38
Exploring the re-emergence of industrial policy: Perceptions regarding low-carbon energy transitions in Germany, the United Kingdom and Denmark	38
Seeking common ground? Heterogeneous support for carbon pricing and climate policies across audience segments	38
Incumbency and sustainability transitions: A systematic review and typology of strategies	37
Filling in the gaps from the bottom up: Energy justice guidelines for European Union energy poverty policy	37
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	37
Measuring the invisible: A framework for quantifying energy justice in urban communities in the United States	37
When past meets present: A mixed-methods study of heating practices in Sweden during the energy crisis	37
Participation as a pathway to procedural justice: A review of energy initiatives across eight European countries	37
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	37
Energy audits and eco-feedback: Exploring the barriers and facilitators of agricultural energy efficiency improvements on Australian farms	36
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	36
Misalignment or exclusion? Investigating climate and energy philanthropy funding of diversity	35
Inequity in public sector energy efficiency? Explaining disparities in program budgets in California, United States	35
Existing tools, user needs and required model adjustments for energy demand modelling of a carbon-neutral Europe	34
The spatial dimension of coal phase-out: Exploring economic transformation and city pathways in Poland	34
Political power, economic trade-offs, and game theory in Indonesian gasoline subsidy reform	34
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	34

“Tool for a just transition? Community choice aggregation and energy justice in New Hampshire and beyond”	34
Disconnected, yet in the spotlight: Emergency research on extreme energy poverty in the Cañada Real informal settlement, Spain	34
Rethinking energy transitions in Southern cities: Urban and infrastructural heterogeneity in Dar es Salaam	34
Hybridizing qualitative coding with natural language processing and deep learning to assess public comments: A case study of the clean power plan	34
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	34
Lithium dreams, local struggles: Navigating the geopolitics and socio-ecological costs of a low-carbon future	34
Energy-efficiency policies targeting consumers may not save energy in the long run: A rebound effect that cannot be ignored	34
Does the sun shine for all? Revealing socio-spatial inequalities in the transition to solar energy in The Hague, The Netherlands	34
Do local parties only mind their own business? Explaining the deployment of large-scale solar energy projects in Germany	34
Rethinking energy studies: Equity, energy and Ivan Illich (1926–2002)	34
Permanent incompleteness: Slow electricity roll-out, infrastructure practices and strategy formation in Monrovia, Liberia	34
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	34
Gendered energy consumption goes beyond sex: Applying a multi-dimensional gender framework to Swiss survey data	34
Identifying rebound effects and formulating more sustainable energy efficiency policy: A global review and framework	34
Energy democracy: Reclaiming a unique agenda in energy transitions research	34
From vulnerability to resilience: Empowering stakeholder-driven just transitions in island tourism economies	33
Living with energy poverty: Uncovering older people’s fuel choices in urban China	33
Exploring beyond-compliance behaviors of Australian building practitioners: A cluster analysis	33
Working time, inequality and carbon emissions in the United States: A multi-dividend approach to climate change mitigation	33
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	33
From warming bodies to heating spaces: Using feminist energy justice and oral histories to unpack home heating transitions in Europe, 1945-present	33
Cooling with the sun: Empowering off-grid communities in developing countries with solar-powered cold storage systems	33
Moral hazard or not? The effects of learning about carbon dioxide removal on perceptions of climate mitigation in the United States	32
On the reduced supply chain risks and mining involved in the transition from coal to wind	32
Investigating decentralized renewable energy systems under different governance approaches in Nepal and Indonesia: How does governance fail?	32
Enabling the transition to a fossil-free steel sector: The conditions for technology transfer for hydrogen-based steelmaking in Europe	32
Solar energy at the peri-urban frontier: An energy justice study of urban peripheries from Burkina Faso and South Africa	32
Inequality and the future of electric mobility in 36 U.S. Cities: An innovative methodology and comparative assessment	32
Unpacking authoritarian governance in electricity policy: Understanding progress, inconsistency and stagnation in Tanzania	32
Pedagogy of agency and action, powers of 10, and fractal entanglement: Radical means for rapid societal transformation toward survivability and justice	32
Cementing development and (un)steeling decarbonization: The political economy of infrastructure drive in Duterte's Philippines	32
Explaining and promoting participation in demand response programs: The role of rational and moral motivations among German energy consumers	32
The political economy of fossil fuel production in the Post-Paris Era: Critically evaluating Nationally Determined Contributions	32
Corrigendum to “Pluralizing energy justice: Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives” [Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 97, March 2023, 102996]	31
Corrigendum to “Doing things differently: Bridging community concerns and energy system modelling with a transdisciplinary approach in rural Ireland” [Energy Res. Soc. Sci. 89 (2022) 102658]	31
Transformative disruptiveness or transition? Revealing digitalization and deep decarbonization pathways in the Italian smart electricity meter roll-out	31
Rooftop solar, electric vehicle, and heat pump adoption in rural areas in the United States	31
Prospects for American cobalt: Reactions to mine proposals in Minnesota and Idaho	31
An ecosystem of tactics: Bridging the radical and moderate flanks in a pipeline resistance movement	31
Renewables but unjust? Critical restoration geography as a framework for addressing global renewable energy injustice	31
Turning a coal state to a green state: Identifying themes of support and opposition to decarbonize the energy system in the United States	31
Flexible experimentation as a remedy for uncertainties - Reflexive Public Reason behind the energy transition in the People's Republic of China	31
Misalignments of theory and practice: Exploring Swedish energy utilities' understandings of energy justice, flexibility capital, and just energy transitions	31
Citizen science and its potential for aiding low carbon energy transitions	31
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	31
Energy justice in heat metering: Findings from a Danish experiment of metering and distribution in residential apartment buildings	31
Beyond energy justice: Ethics of care as a new approach in the energy system	31
Emerging spatial clusters of energy poverty vulnerability in rural Finland—Byproducts of accumulated regional development	30
Towards growth-driven environmentalism: The green energy transition and local state in China	30
Agrivoltaic systems offer symbiotic benefits across the water-energy-food-environment nexus in West Africa: A systematic review	30
Embracing omplexity: Microgrids and community ngagement in Australia	30
An interdisciplinary model for behaviour in residential buildings: Bridging social sciences and engineering approaches	30
The emerging world of humanitarian energy: A conceptual research review	30
Coupling green hydrogen production to community benefits: A pathway to social acceptance?	30
To reform or not reform? Competing energy transition perspectives on Indonesia's monopoly electricity supplier Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN)	30
Participation in Energy Transitions: A Comparison of Policy Styles	30
Energy communities as demand-side innovators? Assessing the potential of European cases to reduce demand and foster flexibility	30
Technology or behaviour? Balanced disruption in the race to net zero emissions	29
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	29
Framing the Energy East pipeline debate in Canada: Public opinion is sensitive to public safety and economic considerations	29
Analysing intersections of justice with energy transitions in India - A systematic literature review	29
Public agency and responsibility in energy governance: A Q study on diverse imagined publics in the Dutch heat transition	29
Rethinking collaborative action and citizen empowerment: Characterising a Whole-of-Society approach to the energy transition	29
Rethinking the concept of prosuming: A critical and integrative perspective	29
Rooftop solar in the United States: Exploring trust, utility perceptions, and adoption among California homeowners	29
Does cash money solve energy poverty? Assessing the impact of household heating allowances in Spain	29
Caring for energy, energy to care: Exploring the energy-care nexus through examples from Sweden and India	29
A typology for unpacking the diversity of social innovation in energy transitions	29
Household willingness to pay for improving electricity services in Sumba Island, Indonesia: A choice experiment under a multi-tier framework	29
The relational dimensions of renovation: Implications for retrofit policy	29
The formative phase of German carbon dioxide removal policy: Positioning between precaution, pragmatism and innovation	29
When cooking meets confucianism: Exploring the role of traditional culture in cooking energy poverty	29
Co-creation as a social process for unlocking sustainable heating transitions in Europe	28
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	28
A systematic review of the lived experiences of the energy vulnerable: Where are the research gaps?	28
Building climate resilience through energy access? An empirical study on grid connectivity in the Indian Sundarbans	28
(Dis)comfortably numb in energy transitions: Gauging residential hard-to-reach energy users in the European Union	28
Energy poverty in Sweden: Using flexibility capital to describe household vulnerability to rising energy prices	28
Examining the inaction in energy renovation decisions: The role of transaction costs in single-family households in Sweden	28
China's nuclear exports: Understanding the dynamics between domestic governance reforms and international market competition	28
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	28
Digital technology and energy imaginaries of future home life: Comic-strip scenarios as a method to disrupt energy industry futures	28
Doing business model innovation for sustainability transitions — Bringing in strategic foresight and human centred design	28
Understanding the drivers of electricity access and willingness to pay for reliable electricity in African refugee settlements: Evidence from Zambia, Malawi, and Uganda	28
“The ketchup effect”: Challenges in reconciling growth and justice in Northern Sweden's green transition	28
Financially-constrained solar development: A comparative analysis of urban fabrics and scalar expression in Portugal and Rajasthan	28
Hard-to-reach energy users: An ex-post cross-country assessment of behavioural-oriented interventions	28
Playing by the rules? How community actors use experts and evidence to oppose coal seam gas activity in Australia	27
Multi-system interactions in hydrogen-based sector coupling projects: System entanglers as key actors	27
India's solar soft power	27
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	27
Promoting support for carbon capture and storage with social norms: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in China	27
How will COVID-19 impact renewable energy in India? Exploring challenges, lessons and emerging opportunities	27
Advocating a just transition in Appalachia: Civil society and industrial change in a carbon-intensive region	27
Cultural imaginaries or incommensurable ontologies? Relationality and sovereignty as worldviews in socio-technological system transitions	27