Energy Research & Social Science

Article	Citations
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	349
Editorial Board	282
Editorial Board	194
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	189
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	185
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	180
Riding the wave of acceptance: Understanding factors in support for marine energy in the United States	172
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	149
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	147
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	140
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	136
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	129
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	128
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	121
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	109
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	108
An invisible threat? Exploring the physical and mental health risks of coal air pollution in the United States	107
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	106
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids	105
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	103
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	99
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review	98
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	97
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	96
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	94

Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	92
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	92
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing	92
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	91
Integrating social justice criteria into multiscale spatial modeling of energy burden: A case study of four states in the United States	90
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	87
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications	86
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	85
The widening gap between copper supply and demand will have an impact on economic development and energy futures	85
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	82
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	82
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom	81
A multi-dimensional framework for comparing zero-carbon energy sources in the energy transition	80
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi	80
Mind the acceptability gap: Integrating lifestyle diversity into energy sufficiency analysis of the Swiss residential building stock	79
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	77
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	76
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	75
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	75
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	75
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	74
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	73
Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability and change in transitions	73
American policy conflict in the hothouse: Exploring the politics of climate inaction and polycentric rebellion	72
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	72
Deepening regional power connectivity: Beyond the industry-centric perspective	72
Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions and hydrogen pathways in Norway	71
Navigating Russia's war and energy transition: Poland's coal challenge	71
Unjust or just unfortunate? Examining claims of procedural (in)justice in the pursuit of universal electricity access in Rwanda	71
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland	70
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa	69
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand	69
Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic	68
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–2013	67
Editorial Board	67
Community benefit agreements for solar energy: Examining values, preferences and perceived benefits in the United States using a discrete choice experiment	67
For the climate, my friends, or my region? An experimental field trial for prosumer engagement with peer-to-peer energy trading in Austria	67
How can policy balance the goals of transition acceleration and justice? Permitting reform, large-scale renewable energy, and host communities in the United States	67
Making the difficult easy: Reducing carbon footprint while preserving quality of life through effective behavior change	66
Editorial Board	66
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries	65
Falling short in 2030: Simulating battery-electric vehicle adoption behaviour in the Netherlands	65
Divergent consumer preferences and visions for cooking and heating technologies in the United Kingdom: Make our homes clean, safe, warm and smart!	64
What is nuclear cultural heritage? Developing an analytical framework	64
A forward looking perspective on the cement and concrete industry: Implications of growth and development in the Global South	63
Transitioning or tinkering at a net-zero economy? Introducing an assessment framework for industrial cluster decarbonisation in the United Kingdom	63
Shifting sustainable lifestyle practices and behaviour during times of pandemic disruptive change: Implications for on-going socio-technical transitions	62
Challenges of the current discourse on incumbent firms in sustainability transitions	62
Domestic electricity consumers and the interactive bill: design intervention for improved energy literacy and empowerment	62
How are Indigenous groups participating in large renewable energy project co-ownership? Mapping global progress	62

The impact of geopolitical risks on the dynamic capabilities of Big Oil	62
Making energy renovations equitable: A literature review of decision-making criteria for a just energy transition in residential buildings	62
Rarely pure and never simple: Exploring perceptions of truth and objectivity in energy modelling and scenarios	62
Cycles of adversity: Parental joblessness in childhood and energy poverty in adulthood	62
Pipelines and power: Psychological distress, political alienation, and the breakdown of environmental justice in government agencies' public participation processes	61
Towards accessibility or affordability? Multidimensional energy poverty across the South African urban–rural divide	60
Who uses power, who gets microgrids? Uncovering regional trends in energy consumption and microgrid deployment in California	60
Can intelligent Renewable Energy Communities deliver on equity for a just energy transition? A policy oriented demonstrator analysis	60
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality	59
Quiet power: How security interests shape offshore wind and marine spatial planning in Sweden	58
Does energy poverty impede job search success? Evidence from the unemployed in Australia	58
Cultural norms to support gender equity in energy development: Grounding the productive use agenda in Rwanda	57
Data art to enhance users' pro-environmental behavior	56
Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms	56
‘It's like going to the moon…’ exploring risk and stakeholder views of Iceland's Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT)	56
Making assumptions and boundary choices visible in energy transition planning: Critical systems heuristics for reflexive interdisciplinary decision structuring	55
Managing transition risk: Toward an interdisciplinary understanding of strategies in the oil industry	54
Winds of fortune? Understanding the geographic, sociodemographic, and temporal distribution of benefit mechanisms from land-based wind projects in the United States	54
When oil companies race to the bottom: Environmental enforcement in theory and corporate impunity in practice in the Peruvian Amazon	53
Between efficiency and democracy: Explaining support and resistance towards energy transition and prosumer solutions in Polish and Czech housing cooperatives	53
Modeling stakeholder interactions for post-disaster electric power restoration: A multi-agent and game-theoretic approach	53
A stakeholder-centred narrative exploration on carbon capture, utilisation and storage: A systems thinking and participatory approach	52
Neighbourhood batteries in Australia: Anticipating questions of value conflict and (in)justice	52
A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways	51
What came first, the pellet or boiler? Interacting leverage points within a sociotechnical system in the United States	51
Solar aporias: On precarity and praxis in interdisciplinary research on solar energy	51
Future at play: Applying Reflexive Public Reason in the case of Taiwanese energy transition	51
How do policies drive China's hydrogen energy industrialization? A comparative analysis of policy across central and regional governments (2016–2024)	51
Between decentralization and reintermediation: Blockchain platforms and the governance of ‘commons-led’ and ‘business-led’ energy transitions	51
Measuring success: Evaluating the business model of rural mini-grid ecosystems	50
Conceptualizing resilience: An energy services approach	50
Getting the signal – Do electricity users meet the preconditions for making informed decisions on demand response?	49
Understanding the social norms of cooling in Chinese offices: Predominance, professionalism, and peer respect	48
Norwegian–Polish carbon capture and storage network: Bilateral collaboration for European climate action	48
Critical minerals and the shaping of Central Asian economies through the ages	47
Designing effective demand response: A review of behavioral insights, consumer engagement, and operational strategies in energy systems	47
Towards an intersectional justice approach to carbon taxation: Energy poverty, vulnerable households, and revenue recycling in Ireland	47
Together we're smart! Flemish and Dutch energy communities' replication strategies in smart grid experiments	47
Hydrogen economies and energy futures: A new Australian dream?	46
The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia	46
From tension to transformation in Dutch heat transitions: Leveraging time, transparency, and relationships	46
Institutional entrepreneuring for energy poverty: The role of boundary work in developing a collaborative product-service system for household appliances	46
Exploring the spatial characteristics of energy injustice: A comparison of the power generation landscapes in Spain, Denmark, and South Korea	46
Land acquisition, renewable energy development, and livelihood transformation in rural Kenya: The case of the Kipeto wind energy project	45
The landlord - property manager - tenant trilemma: Exploring the decision-making processes in decarbonising the rental housing market	45
Systematic Historical Analogue Research for Decision-making (SHARD): Introducing a new methodology for using historical case studies to inform low-carbon transitions	45
Cursed forever? Exploring socio-economic effects of nuclear power plant closures across nine communities in the United States	45
Toward energy democracy: Municipal energy actions in local renewable energy projects	45
Navigating unchartered waters: Overcoming barriers to low-emission fuels in Swedish maritime cargo transport	45
Rushing for the gold of the energy transition: An empirical exploration of the relevance of landownership for the wind energy expansion in Germany	45
Lacking the confidence of one's convictions: Gender differences in energy tariff literacy	44
Adjust the thermostat and eat more plants? Comparing energy and climate knowledge amongst botanical garden members	44
Still muddling through: Local sustainability leaders and energy efficiency in rental units	44
Greenhouse gas neutrality: A qualitative analysis of perceived sustainability tensions in the German chemical industry	43
Do laundry when the sun shines: Factors that promote loadshifting in Dutch households with solar panels	43
Facilitating gendered and socially inclusive energy transitions in sub-Saharan Africa	43
Comparing sustainability transition labs across process, effects and impacts: Insights from Canada and Sweden	43
Palm trees, energy security and green hydrogen futures: Tourists' views on Mallorca's low carbon transition	43
Hedgehogs, foxes, blueprints, and skeletons: Untangling the murky complexity of theoretical and conceptual frameworks	42
In the shadow of nuclear dependency: Competing pathways and the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in France	42
Diversify or die: Strategy options for oil majors in the sustainable energy transition	42
What does Horizon 2020 contribute to? Analysing and visualising the community practices of Europe's largest research and innovation programme	42
Theorising resistance in times of fossil fuels: Ecological grief, righteous anger and interaction rituals in Sweden's energy regime shift	42
Smooth sailing ahead? Policy options for China's new energy vehicle industry in the post-subsidy era	42
Australian microgrids: Navigating complexity in the regional energy transition	41
Transport poverty vulnerability index: Making use of standardised databases	41
Role of street-level policy entrepreneurs in sustainability transition: Evidence from India's transition to LED lighting	41
Framing a gender transformative post-coal future for just transition: A feminist manifesto	41
Electrifying company cars? The effects of incentives and tax benefits on electric vehicle sales in 31 European countries	41
Energy justice in post-Paris India: Unpacking consensus and conflict through storylines and discourse coalitions	41
Data donation: Using the gift relationship framework to address privacy and environmental issues of energy consumption data collection	41
Watered down justice: Experiences of the offshore wind transition in Northeast coastal communities in the United States	40
Epistemic justice impossible? Expert perceptions of the participatory monitoring of geo-energy projects in Poland	40
Participation and sensemaking in electric vehicle field trials: A study of fleet vehicle-to-grid in Australia	40
From innovation to integration: institutional design challenges for emerging energy storage technologies in the Netherlands	40
Public perceptions of heat decarbonisation in Great Britain: Awareness, values and the social circle effect	40
Uneven transitions and disparate mobility patterns for South Africa’s electric paratransit	40
Carbon emissions in metal manufacturing productivity: A global analysis of aluminium smelting	39
Intersectionality in good faith: Beyond normative claims and towards practical integration in energy justice research	39
Strengthening the foundations of energy justice scholarship: What can philosophy contribute?	39

Diagnosing and dismantling renewable lock-ins: Four decades of hydro-thermal path dependence in electricity systems	39
The role of electric vehicle-to-X in net zero energy systems: A comprehensive review	38
Is this drama called populism? A comparison of protagonists, allies, antagonists, and victims in the narratives of Polish and Hungarian energy experts	38
Energy systems for Brazil's Amazon: Could renewable energy improve Indigenous livelihoods and save forest ecosystems?	38
Green recovery or fossil lock-in? Assessing sustainability and energy transition pathways in major economies	38
Rethinking the position of natural gas in a low-carbon energy transition	38
Sustainable design of multiscale CO2 electrolysis: A value sensitive design-based approach	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
Beyond dark money: Information subsidies and complex networks of opposition to offshore wind on the U.S. East Coast	38
India's state-led electricity transition: A review of techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives	38
Models like heroes? Making Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) ready for deep decarbonization and a socio-economic transformation	38
Beyond public acceptance: Towards systemic societal responsiveness of net zero infrastructures	38
Strong plans, weak levers: Identifying institutional limits to reducing car dependence in Finland	37
Contentious pathways towards the energy transition in Barbados: A neo-Gramscian perspective	37
One service fits all? Insights on demand response dilemmas of differently equipped households in Germany	37
Irish Traveller communities and energy poverty: Methodological reflections on human-centred and community-based research	37
The double materiality of Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund: An irreconcilable case of aligning the ‘oil fund’ with Net Zero?	37
People, priorities, and path dependencies: Governance lessons for demand-side flexibility in Great Britain's decarbonising electricity system	36
Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: A place-based research agenda	36
Innovators, followers and laggards in home solar PV: Factors driving diffusion in Finland	36
Visual observation or oral communication? The effect of social learning on solar photovoltaic adoption intention in rural China	36
From pilot to reform: Institutional change through distributed solar experimentation in China	36
Preferences and perceived barriers to pursuing energy sovereignty and renewable energy: A tribal nations perspective	36
Governing beyond market and state: A grounded theory of public–commons partnerships in Spain's energy transition	36
Psychological and social factors driving citizen involvement in renewable energy communities: A systematic review	36
Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage	35
Overcoming barriers and seizing opportunities for smart meters in developing countries: Insights from a large-scale field study in India	35
Mainstreaming gender in energy design practice: Insights from companies operating in sub-Saharan Africa's energy sector	35
Getting stakeholders aboard for offshore wind decommissioning: A qualitative study on end-of-life challenges in Belgium	35
Acceptance in progress: Navigating the transition of nuclear power perception from a long-term study in China	35
Missing the mark: Avoiding community misengagement in large-scale solar development	34
Enablers or barriers: The multifaceted tales of power generation companies in China's energy transition	34
Stop burning garbage! Exploring an anti-waste-to-energy social movement and its effects on local politics in Spain	34
Designing bio-based value chains for social justice: The potential of Capability Sensitive Design	34
“Do you think that coal will finish?”: The (Im)possibilities of living with and without coal in a central Indian coalfield	34
Corrigendum to “making space for environmental justice in renewable energy planning” [energy research & social science volume 118 (2024) 103806]	34
Gendered impacts of oil price shocks: analyzing women's labor force participation in petrostates	34
The smart meets the conventional: Media storylines and societal frames on the energy action of housing cooperatives	34
“Act local, Impact global”: Mapping the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in Greece and advancing social engagement planning processes	34
Shockingly cold and electricity-dependent in a rich context: Energy poor households in Norway	33
The links and entanglements of energy vulnerability: Unpacking the consequences of the energy crisis in Denmark	33
Much broader than health: Surveying the diverse co-benefits of energy demand reduction in Europe	33
When wind power is rejected: Sámi self-determination and restorative energy justice in Arctic Norway	33
The experience of darkness: Introducing energy uncertainty	33
The efficiency divide: Housing constraints on energy-saving practices in Darwin, Australia	33
Civic activism and petition politics in energy transitions: Discursive tactics, networking, and media mobilization in an anti-nuclear movement in China	33
Exploring district heating and cooling cultures, a systematic literature review	33
The just transition fund – Did the European Union learn from Europe's past transition experiences?	33
What is energy literacy? Responding to vulnerability in Philadelphia's energy ecologies	33
Imagining a hydrogen economy: From grand technological utopia to enabler of the energy transition in three waves since the 1970s	33
Harnessing the sun for agriculture: Pathways to the successful expansion of Agrivoltaic systems in East Africa	32
Firewood, four wheelers, and chest freezers: The importance of modern energy to Alaska Native subsistence in Yedatene Na’	32
The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement	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	32
Affluence, Spatial Spillovers, and Inequality in Household Energy Transitions: Exploring the Determinants of Sustainable Technology Adoption in Ireland	32
From theory to practice: Supporting industrial decarbonization and energy cooperation in Austria	32
AI-driven energy futures: Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries in the tech industry	32
Integrate and embrace or isolate and hide? Using Q-method to understand how to incorporate large-scale solar in rural Nova Scotia, Canada	32
Extending the prebound effect: the gap between healthy and actual energy consumption among low-income households in the global south	32
Opinion poles: Polarised views on energy developments in Canada's oil province	32
Climate action or distraction? Exploring investor initiatives and implications for unextractable fossil fuels	32
Conceptualising social value in net zero governance: The case of Bristol City Leap	32
Energy transitions on European islands: Exploring technical scenarios, markets and policy proposals in Denmark, Portugal and the United Kingdom	32
What does Agrivoltaics mean? A study on social representations shared by experts and the press in Italy	31
Just energy imaginaries? Examining realities of solar development on Pennsylvania's farmland	31
Potentials and challenges of artificial intelligence-supported greenwashing detection in the energy sector	31
Unveiling the power of social norms interventions: Investigating energy savings behavior in an Italian energy cooperative	31
Why are charging stations associated with electric vehicle adoption? Untangling effects in three United States metropolitan areas	31
Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands	31
The 2022 energy and inflationary crises: Data, experiences and opinions of Spanish energy vulnerable households	31
Opportunity, ideal or distraction? Exploring stakeholder perceptions of tackling energy poverty and vulnerability among older Australians	31
The market will save the day: White house narratives on liquefied natural gas exports to the European Union	31
Household and non-household factors influencing multidimensional energy poverty in Bangladesh: Demographics, urbanization and regional differentiation via a multilevel modeling approach	31
Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies	31
Extra terra nullius: Off-worlding the externalities of AI, Bitcoin mining and cloud computing with Orbital Data Centres	31
Embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power	31
Diverging paths, converging goals: Framing crisis to kairos in Bill Gates's and Greta Thunberg's climate discourse	30
Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays	30
Why energy models should integrate social and environmental factors: Assessing user needs, omission impacts, and real-word accuracy in the European Union	30
“Become a Gas Leak Detective!” Evaluating a multigenerational citizen science program for connecting distribution pipelines to energy justice	30
Between sunlight and sales: Market access constraints and conceptualizing the renewables pull effect	30
Out of place, scale and time? Navigating injustices across mission arenas of the German Energiewende	30
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains	30
Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition	30
Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure	30
Actions speak louder than words: Attitudes, behaviour, and partisan identity in a polarised environmental domain	30
Distributing less, redistributing more: Safe and just low-energy futures in the United Kingdom	30
Public risk perceptions of shale gas development: A comprehensive review	30
Disruptions and energy demand: How Finnish households responded to the energy crisis of 2022	30
Why is it still too warm or cold in my house? Examining the relationships between energy efficient capital and household energy insecurity	30
Solar threads and social knots: Gender and energy transitions in the weaving community of Varanasi, India	30
Racing against the clock: Modeling the global transition to renewable energy technologies	30
“Fixing” the nuclear waste problem? The new political economy of spent fuel management in the United States	29
A History of Energy and Societal Scenarios for a World in Transition: Fifty Years of Personal Experience with Shell and Other Organisations	29