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“Stretch and transform” for energy justice: Indigenous advocacy for institutional transformative change of electricity in British Columbia, Canada

IF 9.3 2区经济学

Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114615

Christina E. Hoicka , Adam Regier , Anna L. Berka , Sara Chitsaz , Kayla Klym

{"title":"“Stretch and transform” for energy justice: Indigenous advocacy for institutional transformative change of electricity in British Columbia, Canada","authors":"Christina E. Hoicka , Adam Regier , Anna L. Berka , Sara Chitsaz , Kayla Klym","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114615","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114615","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transformative energy justice addresses root causes and legacies of inequality, centers voices and world views of historically excluded communities in the problem definition, decision making and transition processes. This study offers insights from a unique case of meso-level collective action by First Nations in British Columbia (BC), Canada, aimed at transformative electricity institutional change. We collate regulatory and advocacy text to characterise the range of proposed First Nation Power Authority models and their placement along a continuum of conformative to transformative energy justice. Interviews with knowledge holders from 14 First Nations offer insight into motivations behind transformative change and how it is shaped by historical injustice alongside practical community objectives around energy security, resilience, and community development. First Nations narratives of electricity transformation are aligned with the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) and with goals of self-determination and incorporate relational and regional approaches. These findings validate theoretical frameworks of transformational energy justice (Avelino et al., 2024; Elmallah et al., 2022). Much of the groundwork has been laid by the collective and the regulator, while new legislation has opened a window of opportunity to increase Indigenous participation and control in the electricity sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 114615"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143747329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Policy implications for offshore renewable energy in Australia: An MSP approach supporting the energy transition

IF 9.3 2区经济学

Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114621

Laura L. Griffiths , Camille Goodman , Michelle Voyer , Jackson Stockbridge , Anna Lewis , Freya Croft , Chris LJ. Frid

{"title":"Policy implications for offshore renewable energy in Australia: An MSP approach supporting the energy transition","authors":"Laura L. Griffiths , Camille Goodman , Michelle Voyer , Jackson Stockbridge , Anna Lewis , Freya Croft , Chris LJ. Frid","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114621","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114621","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In response to the ‘climate crisis’, countries around the world are implementing policy, administrative, and structural changes to transition towards a decarbonised economy. A key aspect of this shift is the development of offshore wind. In many countries, integrated ocean management approaches including Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) have been used to manage offshore wind development. However, in Australia – a country new to offshore wind - a traditional sector-specific approach has been adopted. Given the need for relatively rapid development of Australia's offshore renewable energy industry, and the urgency of the decarbonisation agenda, implementing a comprehensive MSP approach within the required timeframe would be challenging. This article therefore aims to identify elements of the MSP process that can be rapidly deployed to support offshore wind development. Drawing on lessons learnt internationally, we examine how three key elements of MSP—governance integration, participation, and building the evidence-base —might be employed in advance (or in lieu) of a formal MSP process. We provide recommendations to support the rollout of offshore wind that would provide coordinated pathways for integrated governance, build knowledge and provide greater social and environmental acceptability, which is relevant for other countries developing their offshore energy capacity in the absence of MSP.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 114621"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143747330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Electrical energy costs and size and structure of farming households. Study from Poland

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114617

Arkadiusz Piwowar

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Targeted finance and the adoption of solar irrigation by smallholder and women farmers

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114569

Dipendra Bhattarai , Ram Fishman , Nabina Lamichhane , Aditi Mukherji

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Public perception and VSC-HVDC power transmission adoption: Experiences and lessons learned from past cases

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114574

Dohyoung Kim , Hwi-il Sun , Hongbum Kim

{"title":"Public perception and VSC-HVDC power transmission adoption: Experiences and lessons learned from past cases","authors":"Dohyoung Kim , Hwi-il Sun , Hongbum Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114574","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114574","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Voltage source converter high voltage direct current (VSC-HVDC) technology is viewed as a transformative solution for power transmission, particularly connecting remote renewable energy sources to urban areas. However, public opposition has historically challenged the adoption of power transmission projects. This study employs Boudet's technology-people-place-process framework to examine the public perception of two projects: Ten West Link (United States) and SuedOstLink (Germany). Through extensive document analysis and insights from selected technical experts, the research reveals the importance of early stakeholder involvement and comprehensive information sharing about projects' impact. The study then applies these findings to highlight how experiences from previous projects can guide future implementation in addressing public perception challenges. A reflection on South Korea's planned West Sea (Yellow Sea) HVDC project demonstrates the framework's applicability to future initiatives aimed at boosting renewable energy penetration. Key findings emphasize that successful VSC-HVDC project implementation depends on ensuring technology stability, fostering extensive stakeholder participation, engaging in early and transparent public communication, and responding effectively to community needs. The research concludes that future projects should prioritize stakeholder involvement to address public concerns and ensure community participation in decision-making, thereby facilitating the effective adoption of VSC-HVDC technology to develop sustainable energy infrastructure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 114574"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143706530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Determinants of U.S. residential energy consumption at national and state levels: Policy implications

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114594

Sepideh Sadat Korsavi , Rahman Azari , Lisa D. Iulo , Mehrdad Mahdavi

{"title":"Determinants of U.S. residential energy consumption at national and state levels: Policy implications","authors":"Sepideh Sadat Korsavi , Rahman Azari , Lisa D. Iulo , Mehrdad Mahdavi","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114594","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114594","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Literature has extensively studied the effects of physical and environmental parameters on building energy consumption through physics-based simulations. However, energy use of the building sector at state and national levels is influenced by more complex factors that vary spatially and temporally and include sociodemographic, socioeconomic, physical, climatic, and microclimatic parameters.</div><div>This study identifies key determinants of U.S. residential energy consumption at national and state levels using the 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) data and examines whether they increase or decrease energy use. This research uses Machine learning algorithms for energy modeling and SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) sensitivity analysis to explain the contribution of each feature to the model. Top determinants influencing national energy include using electricity for space and water heating, Heating Degree Days, and energy-consuming areas. Using electricity for heating can significantly reduce on-site residential energy consumption. Given that electricity is the second most common heating source in American homes after natural gas, these findings highlight the potential benefits of transitioning to electric heating systems like heat pumps. Further policies derived from key state-level determinants promote attached housing, efficient setpoint temperature behaviors, energy-efficient appliances and lighting, and on-site electricity generation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 114594"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143715168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Green growth in pilot zones for green finance and innovation

IF 9.3 2区经济学

Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114611

Wenqi Zhao , Moau Yong Toh , Jerry Zhirong Zhao

{"title":"Green growth in pilot zones for green finance and innovation","authors":"Wenqi Zhao , Moau Yong Toh , Jerry Zhirong Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114611","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114611","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Substantial literature has acknowledged the efficacy of green finance policies in environmental enhancement, but their impact on green growth remains understudied. This paper employs a quasi-natural experiment to investigate the effect of the Green Finance Reform and Innovation Pilot Zones (GFPZ) policy on green growth in 288 prefecture-level cities in China over the period 2010–2021. The findings indicate that the GFPZ policy significantly promotes urban green growth, measured by green total factor productivity, with technical change as the primary driver. The findings survive Difference-in-Difference (DID), Propensity Score Matching-DID (PSM-DID), Synthetic DID (SDID), and other robustness checks. Mechanism analyses show that the GFPZ policy promotes urban green growth by advancing green financial instruments, constructing green infrastructure, increasing public transport accessibility, and optimizing the energy structure. Heterogeneity analyses show that the policy's effect on green growth is more pronounced in cities with lower fiscal pressure, greater energy endowment, and lower pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions. The spillover effect analysis indicates that green growth extends to cities located within approximately 250 km from the GFPZs. These findings offer important policy implications as governments optimize green finance initiatives for promoting urban sustainable development across regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 114611"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143703916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Incentive policy formulation for China's electric vehicle market: Navigating pathways to sustainable mobility with a green premium analytical model

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114610

Hang Fan , Zhi Li , Yunjie Duan , Boyu Wang

{"title":"Incentive policy formulation for China's electric vehicle market: Navigating pathways to sustainable mobility with a green premium analytical model","authors":"Hang Fan , Zhi Li , Yunjie Duan , Boyu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114610","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114610","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Accurate electric vehicle (EV) sales forecasting is essential for effective policy-making and sustainable industry growth. Existing approaches frequently overlook the green premium - the cost differential between conventional and zero-emission technologies - in EV adoption analyses. Thus, the objective of this research was to model the green premium in the green transition process of battery electric vehicle (BEV) and to guide the formulation of incentive policies to promote industry development. We use an improved Bass diffusion model and genetic algorithms to predict the market penetration rate of BEVs under different green premium scenarios, and we provide policy recommendations based on data from China's electric vehicle market. Our findings show that the market penetration rate of BEVs is highly sensitive to the green premium. Incentive policy subsidies and technological innovation are the main factors affecting the green premium of BEVs. Dual-credit policies and license plate restrictions increase the market penetration rate of BEVs by reducing their production and usage costs. Technological innovations, such as advancements in battery technology and improvements in intelligence levels, fundamentally reduce production costs and increase product premiums, which are key to the market entry and sustainable development of BEVs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 114610"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143686559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A computational analysis of the media coverage of the European Parliament's ‘green' Designation on sustainable energy and climate change

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114592

Ileana Zeler , Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat , Riasat Muhammad Amir

{"title":"A computational analysis of the media coverage of the European Parliament's ‘green' Designation on sustainable energy and climate change","authors":"Ileana Zeler , Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat , Riasat Muhammad Amir","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114592","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114592","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Energy is pivotal to the sustainable development agenda for 2030. In this context, nuclear energy emerges as a potential solution for renewable energy development and carbon dioxide mitigation. However, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 exacerbated global energy concerns, leading to a surge in fuel prices and an economic slowdown, prompting the European Parliament to designate nuclear energy investments as \"green.\" Despite the potential of nuclear energy in advancing sustainability goals, public perception, influenced by historical negative narratives and media coverage, remains a challenge. This article examines the impact of the European Parliament's decision on the news flow and coverage about sustainability, climate change, and nuclear energy in the global media. By analysing seven months of global news coverage, a total of 7822 news stories in English were selected. Through descriptive analysis and unsupervised topic modelling Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) machine learning techniques, this study explores trends in news content and coverage, shedding light on the intersection of energy policies, and media coverage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 114592"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143686569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of remittances in clean energy adoption: New household level insights from West Africa

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114613

Arouna Kouandou

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