Energy Research & Social Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Energy Research & Social Science is 17. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in229
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector222
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam204
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape180
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan178
Empowerment or employment? Uncovering the paradoxes of social entrepreneurship for women via Husk Power Systems in rural North India157
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation142
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria142
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?141
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research130
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland124
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy116
Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia114
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada106
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes104
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom103
Strengthening the sustainability of rural electrification projects: Renewable energy, management models and energy transitions in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia101
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation98
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system98
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency96
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland89
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market87
Power dynamics, shifting roles, and learning: Exploring key actors in participation processes in the German energy transformation (Energiewende)86
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance82
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing78
When beyond compliance is the expectation: the realities of environmental planning and permitting for renewable energy projects in the great plains of the United States77
Turning a coal state to a green state: Identifying themes of support and opposition to decarbonize the energy system in the United States77
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community77
Rethinking collaborative action and citizen empowerment: Characterising a Whole-of-Society approach to the energy transition77
The political economy of socio-technical transitions: A relational view of the state and bus system decarbonization in the United Kingdom74
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways74
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom72
Can renewable energy communities enable a just energy transition? Exploring alignment between stakeholder motivations and needs and EU policy in Latvia, Norway, Portugal and Spain71
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications71
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives: A review71
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden70
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review69
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy69
Does cash money solve energy poverty? Assessing the impact of household heating allowances in Spain68
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide68
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States68
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities67
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions66
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf66
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future66
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia63
Editorial Board63
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality62
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What came first, the pellet or boiler? Interacting leverage points within a sociotechnical system in the United States61
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries60
Cycles of adversity: Parental joblessness in childhood and energy poverty in adulthood60
What is nuclear cultural heritage? Developing an analytical framework59
A stakeholder-centred narrative exploration on carbon capture, utilisation and storage: A systems thinking and participatory approach59
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland59
Divergent consumer preferences and visions for cooking and heating technologies in the United Kingdom: Make our homes clean, safe, warm and smart!59
Deepening regional power connectivity: Beyond the industry-centric perspective59
Pushing out or pulling in? The determinants of Chinese energy finance in developing countries58
Falling short in 2030: Simulating battery-electric vehicle adoption behaviour in the Netherlands58
Making energy renovations equitable: A literature review of decision-making criteria for a just energy transition in residential buildings58
Between decentralization and reintermediation: Blockchain platforms and the governance of ‘commons-led’ and ‘business-led’ energy transitions57
Moderating spillover: Focusing on personal sustainable behavior rarely hinders and can boost climate policy support57
Navigating Russia's war and energy transition: Poland's coal challenge57
Domestic electricity consumers and the interactive bill: design intervention for improved energy literacy and empowerment56
Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions and hydrogen pathways in Norway55
Understanding the social norms of cooling in Chinese offices: Predominance, professionalism, and peer respect55
Actors and agency in district heating: Engaging with middle actor perspectives through future workshops55
Neighbourhood batteries in Australia: Anticipating questions of value conflict and (in)justice54
The solar influencer next door: Predicting low income solar referrals and leads54
Product traits, decision-makers, and household low-carbon technology adoptions: moving beyond single empirical studies54
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand54
Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic53
Energy plans in practice: The making of thermal energy storage in urban Denmark53
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling53
Norwegian–Polish carbon capture and storage network: Bilateral collaboration for European climate action53
Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms53
Measuring success: Evaluating the business model of rural mini-grid ecosystems52
Cultural norms to support gender equity in energy development: Grounding the productive use agenda in Rwanda52
Challenges of the current discourse on incumbent firms in sustainability transitions52
Electricity access in Mozambique: A critical policy analysis of investment, service reliability and social sustainability52
Community benefit agreements for solar energy: Examining values, preferences and perceived benefits in the United States using a discrete choice experiment51
American policy conflict in the hothouse: Exploring the politics of climate inaction and polycentric rebellion51
For the climate, my friends, or my region? An experimental field trial for prosumer engagement with peer-to-peer energy trading in Austria50
Rooftop solar for all: Closing the gap between the technically possible and the achievable50
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa50
Managing transition risk: Toward an interdisciplinary understanding of strategies in the oil industry50
Conceptualizing resilience: An energy services approach50
How to make building renovation work for low-income renters: Preferences for distributional principles and procedural options in Austria50
Solar aporias: On precarity and praxis in interdisciplinary research on solar energy49
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–201349
Shifting sustainable lifestyle practices and behaviour during times of pandemic disruptive change: Implications for on-going socio-technical transitions49
Towards accessibility or affordability? Multidimensional energy poverty across the South African urban–rural divide49
Transitioning or tinkering at a net-zero economy? Introducing an assessment framework for industrial cluster decarbonisation in the United Kingdom49
Getting the signal – Do electricity users meet the preconditions for making informed decisions on demand response?48
Towards an intersectional justice approach to carbon taxation: Energy poverty, vulnerable households, and revenue recycling in Ireland48
Together we're smart! Flemish and Dutch energy communities' replication strategies in smart grid experiments48
Future at play: Applying Reflexive Public Reason in the case of Taiwanese energy transition48
A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways48
A forward looking perspective on the cement and concrete industry: Implications of growth and development in the Global South48
Corrigendum to “Vested interests: Examining the political obstacles to power sector reform in twenty Indian states” [Energy Res. Soc. Sci. 70 (2020) 101766]47
Pipelines and power: Psychological distress, political alienation, and the breakdown of environmental justice in government agencies' public participation processes47
Greenhouse gas neutrality: A qualitative analysis of perceived sustainability tensions in the German chemical industry47
Role of street-level policy entrepreneurs in sustainability transition: Evidence from India's transition to LED lighting47
Intersectionality in good faith: Beyond normative claims and towards practical integration in energy justice research46
Institutional entrepreneuring for energy poverty: The role of boundary work in developing a collaborative product-service system for household appliances46
Energy justice in post-Paris India: Unpacking consensus and conflict through storylines and discourse coalitions46
Public perceptions of heat decarbonisation in Great Britain: Awareness, values and the social circle effect46
Australian microgrids: Navigating complexity in the regional energy transition45
Preferences and perceived barriers to pursuing energy sovereignty and renewable energy: A tribal nations perspective45
How to make energy efficiency labels more effective: Insights from discrete choice experiments in Ghana and the Philippines45
The role of electric vehicle-to-X in net zero energy systems: A comprehensive review45
The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia44
Uneven transitions and disparate mobility patterns for South Africa’s electric paratransit44
Overcoming barriers and seizing opportunities for smart meters in developing countries: Insights from a large-scale field study in India44
Smooth sailing ahead? Policy options for China's new energy vehicle industry in the post-subsidy era43
Reviewing the opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the digitalization of energy43
Beyond dark money: Information subsidies and complex networks of opposition to offshore wind on the U.S. East Coast43
What influences public acceptability of sustainable energy policies? The crucial role of funding and who benefits43
Electrifying company cars? The effects of incentives and tax benefits on electric vehicle sales in 31 European countries43
Models like heroes? Making Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) ready for deep decarbonization and a socio-economic transformation43
Participation and sensemaking in electric vehicle field trials: A study of fleet vehicle-to-grid in Australia43
Energy systems for Brazil's Amazon: Could renewable energy improve Indigenous livelihoods and save forest ecosystems?43
Navigating unchartered waters: Overcoming barriers to low-emission fuels in Swedish maritime cargo transport43
Comparing sustainability transition labs across process, effects and impacts: Insights from Canada and Sweden42
For security or sustainability? Investigating the global nexus of nuclear power, democracies, and civil society42
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Hedgehogs, foxes, blueprints, and skeletons: Untangling the murky complexity of theoretical and conceptual frameworks42
Sustainable design of multiscale CO2 electrolysis: A value sensitive design-based approach42
Theorising resistance in times of fossil fuels: Ecological grief, righteous anger and interaction rituals in Sweden's energy regime shift41
Engaged minority or quiet majority? Social intentions and actions related to offshore wind energy development in the United States41
Palm trees, energy security and green hydrogen futures: Tourists' views on Mallorca's low carbon transition41
From innovation to integration: institutional design challenges for emerging energy storage technologies in the Netherlands41
Watered down justice: Experiences of the offshore wind transition in Northeast coastal communities in the United States41
Exploring the spatial characteristics of energy injustice: A comparison of the power generation landscapes in Spain, Denmark, and South Korea40
One service fits all? Insights on demand response dilemmas of differently equipped households in Germany40
In the shadow of nuclear dependency: Competing pathways and the social acceptance of offshore wind energy in France40
Systematic Historical Analogue Research for Decision-making (SHARD): Introducing a new methodology for using historical case studies to inform low-carbon transitions40
Rushing for the gold of the energy transition: An empirical exploration of the relevance of landownership for the wind energy expansion in Germany40
Toward energy democracy: Municipal energy actions in local renewable energy projects40
Social license to automate: A critical review of emerging approaches to electricity demand management40
Do laundry when the sun shines: Factors that promote loadshifting in Dutch households with solar panels40
Institutions to the rescue: Untangling industrial fragmentation, institutional misalignment, and political constraints in the Russian gas pipeline industry39
Transport poverty vulnerability index: Making use of standardised databases39
Strengthening the foundations of energy justice scholarship: What can philosophy contribute?39
Getting stakeholders aboard for offshore wind decommissioning: A qualitative study on end-of-life challenges in Belgium39
Framing a gender transformative post-coal future for just transition: A feminist manifesto39
Innovators, followers and laggards in home solar PV: Factors driving diffusion in Finland39
Rethinking the position of natural gas in a low-carbon energy transition39
India's state-led electricity transition: A review of techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives39
Data donation: Using the gift relationship framework to address privacy and environmental issues of energy consumption data collection38
Land acquisition, renewable energy development, and livelihood transformation in rural Kenya: The case of the Kipeto wind energy project38
Visual observation or oral communication? The effect of social learning on solar photovoltaic adoption intention in rural China38
Epistemic justice impossible? Expert perceptions of the participatory monitoring of geo-energy projects in Poland38
What does Horizon 2020 contribute to? Analysing and visualising the community practices of Europe's largest research and innovation programme38
Decarbonisation of industrial clusters: A place-based research agenda37
Out of sight, out of mind? The importance of local context and trust in understanding the social acceptance of biogas projects: A global scale review37
Diversify or die: Strategy options for oil majors in the sustainable energy transition37
Cursed forever? Exploring socio-economic effects of nuclear power plant closures across nine communities in the United States37
Hydrogen economies and energy futures: A new Australian dream?37
Psychological and social factors driving citizen involvement in renewable energy communities: A systematic review37
Opinion poles: Polarised views on energy developments in Canada's oil province36
Concentrated solar power plants: A critical review of regional dynamics and operational parameters36
Unveiling the power of social norms interventions: Investigating energy savings behavior in an Italian energy cooperative36
Enablers or barriers: The multifaceted tales of power generation companies in China's energy transition36
The links and entanglements of energy vulnerability: Unpacking the consequences of the energy crisis in Denmark36
Shifting patterns of expectations management in innovation policy: A comparative analysis of solar energy policy in the United States, Japan and Germany36
Opportunity, ideal or distraction? Exploring stakeholder perceptions of tackling energy poverty and vulnerability among older Australians36
From theory to practice: Supporting industrial decarbonization and energy cooperation in Austria36
Designing bio-based value chains for social justice: The potential of Capability Sensitive Design35
Imagining a hydrogen economy: From grand technological utopia to enabler of the energy transition in three waves since the 1970s35
Firewood, four wheelers, and chest freezers: The importance of modern energy to Alaska Native subsistence in Yedatene Na’35
Triggering resistance: Contesting the injustices of solar park development in India35
Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage35
Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands35
Taboos, toilets and biogas: Socio-technical pathways to acceptance of a sustainable household technology35
The smart meets the conventional: Media storylines and societal frames on the energy action of housing cooperatives35
Unsustainabilities: A study on SUVs and Space Tourism and a research agenda for transition studies35
Much broader than health: Surveying the diverse co-benefits of energy demand reduction in Europe35
Household and non-household factors influencing multidimensional energy poverty in Bangladesh: Demographics, urbanization and regional differentiation via a multilevel modeling approach34
Gendered impacts of oil price shocks: analyzing women's labor force participation in petrostates34
The 2022 energy and inflationary crises: Data, experiences and opinions of Spanish energy vulnerable households34
Corrigendum to “making space for environmental justice in renewable energy planning” [energy research & social science volume 118 (2024) 103806]34
Civic activism and petition politics in energy transitions: Discursive tactics, networking, and media mobilization in an anti-nuclear movement in China34
Why are charging stations associated with electric vehicle adoption? Untangling effects in three United States metropolitan areas33
Embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power33
Mainstreaming gender in energy design practice: Insights from companies operating in sub-Saharan Africa's energy sector33
Potentials and challenges of artificial intelligence-supported greenwashing detection in the energy sector33
Disruptions and energy demand: How Finnish households responded to the energy crisis of 202233
What does Agrivoltaics mean? A study on social representations shared by experts and the press in Italy33
Energy transitions on European islands: Exploring technical scenarios, markets and policy proposals in Denmark, Portugal and the United Kingdom33
Acceptance in progress: Navigating the transition of nuclear power perception from a long-term study in China33
Towards fair, just and equitable energy ecosystems through smart monitoring of household-scale biogas plants in Kenya33
Climate action or distraction? Exploring investor initiatives and implications for unextractable fossil fuels33
‘If the gas runs out, we are not going to sleep hungry’: Exploring household energy choices in India’s critically polluted coal belt33
Stop burning garbage! Exploring an anti-waste-to-energy social movement and its effects on local politics in Spain32
Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure32
Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition32
Dancing with complexity: Making sense of decarbonisation, decentralisation, digitalisation and democratisation32
Why energy models should integrate social and environmental factors: Assessing user needs, omission impacts, and real-word accuracy in the European Union32
Harnessing the sun for agriculture: Pathways to the successful expansion of Agrivoltaic systems in East Africa32
A marriage of convenience or necessity? Research and policy implications for electrifying upstream petroleum production systems with renewables32
Thinking, doing, organising: Prefiguring just and sustainable energy systems via collective prosumer ecosystems in Europe32
Public risk perceptions of shale gas development: A comprehensive review32
The just transition fund – Did the European Union learn from Europe's past transition experiences?32
Shockingly cold and electricity-dependent in a rich context: Energy poor households in Norway32
When energy justice is contested: A systematic review of a decade of research on Sweden's conflicted energy landscape32
The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement32
When the lights go out: Californians’ experience with wildfire-related public safety power shutoffs increases intention to adopt solar and storage32
Just energy imaginaries? Examining realities of solar development on Pennsylvania's farmland32
What is energy literacy? Responding to vulnerability in Philadelphia's energy ecologies32
Energy governance as a commons: Engineering alternative socio-technical configurations31
Enabling a just energy transition through solidarity in research31
Moving beyond opportunity narratives in COVID-19 green recoveries: A comparative analysis of public investment plans in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom31
“Become a Gas Leak Detective!” Evaluating a multigenerational citizen science program for connecting distribution pipelines to energy justice31
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains31
Modelling governance for a successful electricity sector decarbonisation30
Rebalancing climate finance: Analysing multilateral development banks' allocation practices30
Overcoming political stalemates: The German stakeholder commission on phasing out coal30
Pumping up adoption: The role of policy awareness in explaining willingness to adopt heat pumps in Canada30
Evidence-based climate impact: A financial product framework30
Diverging paths, converging goals: Framing crisis to kairos in Bill Gates's and Greta Thunberg's climate discourse30
Filming the atom: Systematically exploring images of nuclear energy and their messages in popular movies30
Distributing less, redistributing more: Safe and just low-energy futures in the United Kingdom30
Are religious individuals against renewables? Exploring religious beliefs and support for government investment in energy transitions in the United States30
Beyond the social license to operate: Whole system approaches for a socially responsible mining industry30
From grey to green and from west to east: The geography and innovation trajectories of hydrogen fuel technologies29
Making energy justice work for women in rural sub-Saharan Africa: A quantitative diagnostic from Benin, Senegal, and Togo29
Enabling equitable energy access for Mozambique? Heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Maputo's growing urban periphery29
Measuring organizational resilience: Tracing disruptive events facing unconventional oil and gas enterprise performance in the Americas29
Trading cozy old homes for chilly new ones: How experiences and beliefs guide housing modernization in Northern Pakistan29
Wasted expertise: Why retrofit should include residents29
Plugging in with neighbours: Defining the social dimension of electric vehicle charging in the Netherlands29
Rethinking the dynamics of innovation, science, and technology: The curious case of Stirling engines and Stirling refrigerators29
Fleeting energy protections: State and utility level policy responses to energy poverty in the United States during COVID-1929
What is the value of peer-to-peer energy trading? A discrete choice experiment with residential electricity users in Colombia29
Academic travel from above and below: Institutions, ideas, and interests shaping contemporary practices29
The energy commons: A systematic review, paradoxes, and ways forward29
Technological innovation enables low cost climate change mitigation28
Climate obstruction at work: Right-wing populism and the German heating law28
Understanding climate activism: Who participates in climate marches such as “Fridays for Future” and what can we learn from it?28
Does the public want green hydrogen in industry? Local and national acceptance of methanol and steel transitions in Germany28
Why is it still too warm or cold in my house? Examining the relationships between energy efficient capital and household energy insecurity28
Reimagining net metering: A polycentric model for equitable solar adoption in the United States27
How can energy prosumerism align with sufficiency and justice principles? A typology for policymakers, researchers and practitioners27
Green hydrogen value chains in the industrial sector—Geopolitical and market implications27
“Fixing” the nuclear waste problem? The new political economy of spent fuel management in the United States27
Social perspectives of carbon capture, transportation, utilization, and storage in Switzerland27
Solar energy development on farmland: Three prevalent perspectives of conflict, synergy and compromise in the United States27
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