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{"title":"Quantitative evaluation of China’s energy storage policies: A ChatGPT-based PMC index modelling approach","authors":"Jing Liang ,&nbsp;Yuqi Wang ,&nbsp;Wei Li ,&nbsp;Weihan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114769","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114769","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Efficient energy grid systems can improve operational efficiency and reduce carbon emissions by integrating diverse renewable energy generation sources. As a distinct asset class within the electric grid, energy storage necessitates well-defined regulatory and financial policies to support its development and large-scale deployment. This makes it essential to establish an effective and consistent policy evaluation framework to support the growth of the energy storage industry. In this study, we propose a ChatGPT-based Policy Model Consistency framework to evaluate 203 energy supply policies issued by China’s central and local governments during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period (2021–2024). The results demonstrate the effectiveness of AI-powered policy analysis in building quantitative and objective policy evaluation systems. In addition, the findings highlight the ability of the system to provide a comprehensive analysis and practical recommendations for the development of energy storage systems in China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114769"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144655695","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}

{"title":"How does corruption hinder energy transition? A perspective from Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Rui Yin ,&nbsp;Junxia Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114778","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114778","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The imperative to shift from fossil-based systems of energy to renewable energy has never been more urgent. Corruption is one of the major stumbling blocks to this transition, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, where governance institutions are weak and socio-economic challenges are enormous. Utilizing case studies from Transparency International's Climate and Corruption Case Atlas, this research examines critical corruption typologies and their hindrance on energy transition efforts. Building on the analysis of the current corruption landscape, this research further investigates the unique socio-economic and political characteristics of Sub-Saharan Africa that render the region's energy transition more vulnerable to corruption. In light of these challenges, this paper proposes policy measures involving strengthening governance and regulatory frameworks, enhancing institutional and financial capacity, raising public awareness and stakeholder engagement, and encouraging international cooperation and aid alignment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114778"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144655735","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}

{"title":"Limited scientific evidence for decarbonization of energy end-uses and the challenges to learning and empowerment of green hydrogen niches - insights from Canada","authors":"F. Ignacio Aguilar ,&nbsp;Christina E. Hoicka ,&nbsp;Ali Seifitokaldani","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114763","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114763","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Supporting inappropriate uses for hydrogen can delay climate action and decarbonization efforts should limit hydrogen to difficult-to-electrify end-uses. The introduction of novel green hydrogen niches to markets requires learning about which end-uses are appropriate for hydrogen and the empowerment of these niches. This work identifies and collates scientific evidence of when to use hydrogen over electrification of end-uses. The hydrogen end-uses being empowered by legitimization through discourse and resource mobilization are assessed in investment advice, 11 government plans, and 47 policies in Canada. The findings confirm the inattention to when to electrify and when to use hydrogen, observed in the very limited scientific evidence of only two approaches to prioritization, the lack of harmonization between the approaches, and the lack of legitimization of this information. Although some hydrogen end-uses being empowered align with scientific evidence, the most appropriate set of hydrogen end-uses that could contribute to decarbonization are not being legitimized and empowered in Canada. More attention should be paid and resources allocated to developing and legitimizing robust and scientifically based evidence of when to electrify and when to use hydrogen for energy end-uses. This novel method is globally applicable to other emerging technologies and policy analysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114763"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144633264","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}

{"title":"From tradition to transition: The effect of clan culture on energy poverty","authors":"Minglai Li ,&nbsp;Cong Li ,&nbsp;Qiang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114777","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114777","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A deeper understanding of the nexus between traditional clan culture and energy poverty holds significant implications for advancing energy transition and improving human well-being. This paper investigates the role of clan culture, a deeply embedded element of China's historical heritage, in shaping patterns of energy poverty. Utilizing a national representative sample, we uncover that clan culture has a significantly negative effect on energy poverty. Specifically, a 10 % increase in the geographical density of clan culture is associated with an average reduction of 0.29 % in the probability of households experiencing energy poverty. The finding also implies that clan cultural effects could potentially lift approximately 1.43 million households, representing over 4.29 million individuals, out of energy poverty. Moreover, the impact of clan culture is more pronounced among Han Chinese populations compared to ethnic minority groups; the effect of the Clean Heating Plan in Northern Regions also varies substantially across regions with differing intensities of clan culture. Our findings suggest that clan culture helps form social capital through mechanisms such as resilience and supplements to formal institutions. We also conduct a series of robustness checks and employ an instrument variable approach to further support our findings. Our evidence calls the attention of policymakers to consider the interplay between formal and informal institutions when designing energy poverty interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114777"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144633267","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}

{"title":"Strengthening the resilience of urban energy systems amid renewable energy transition: A new method based on double machine learning","authors":"Shu Mo ,&nbsp;Xinghua Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114776","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114776","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Renewable energy transition can fully leverage transformative potential and provide impetus for improving the resilience of urban energy systems. This study takes China's Plan on Clean Energy Accommodation as a quasi-natural experiment and employs a dual machine learning model to explore the impact of the renewable energy transition on the resilience of urban energy systems, as well as the underlying mechanisms. It also examines the regional coordination effects of this transition. The findings reveal that the renewable energy transition significantly strengthens the resilience of urban energy systems. A heterogeneity analysis further shows that the transition has a more pronounced positive influence on energy system resilience in economically developed regions, northern cities, and those with high carbon emissions. Mechanism analysis indicates that the renewable energy transition enhances resilience through four main channels: promoting low-carbon awareness, reducing climate risks, improving energy efficiency, and increasing marketization. Additionally, the transition diminishes traditional geographical advantages, helping to narrow disparities in energy system resilience at the national, regional, and provincial levels, thereby demonstrating notable regional coordination effects. This study offers important insights for a deeper comprehension of the value of the renewable energy transition and for exploring ways to enhance urban energy system resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114776"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144623637","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}

{"title":"Economic and policy assessment on nuclear energy for Latin America’s energy transition","authors":"José Alejandro Barrera Giraldo ,&nbsp;David Galeano ,&nbsp;Daniel Morales ,&nbsp;Alfredo Trespalacios","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114771","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114771","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Latin America is projected to face significant energy deficits in the long term due to the increasing demand for electricity and the challenges surrounding the development of new energy infrastructure. While renewable sources, such as solar and wind, have shown remarkable progress, their intermittent nature and storage limitations prevent them from fully meeting the region’s growing energy needs. This paper explores the potential of nuclear energy to complement renewable sources, focusing on six target countries: Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and El Salvador. We examine the techno-economic and policy factors that influence the deployment of nuclear power in the region, including the adoption of SMRs, which may offer more flexible and cost-effective solutions compared to large-scale nuclear power plants. We obtain deterministic LCOE values ranging from 70.88 USD/MWh to 158.57 USD/MWh according to different scenarios. In the case of Colombia, the implementation of fiscal incentives for non-conventional energy sources significantly reduces the financial leverage required for project development. Our analysis demonstrates that these incentives reduce financial leverage requirements from 65 % to 30 %, significantly enhancing the feasibility of nuclear energy projects in the region. Monte Carlo simulations were conducted to generate probability density functions (PDFs) for the LCOE of each country. We highlight the scarcity of academic and policy studies on nuclear electricity generation in Latin America, in contrast to other regions. The findings suggest that nuclear energy can be pivotal in securing a reliable, low-carbon energy future for Latin America. However, the lack of region-specific data, especially on CAPEX and OPEX, poses significant barriers to its implementation. The paper concludes with policy recommendations for Latin American governments to facilitate the integration of nuclear energy into their energy strategies, ensuring that it complements the growth of renewables and supports the transition to a low-carbon economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114771"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144596356","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}

{"title":"The hidden work of everyday decisions in the home - Domestic energy managers and their implications for future smart grids","authors":"Sonja Oliveira ,&nbsp;Anna Chatzimichali ,&nbsp;Faezeh Bagheri-Moghaddam ,&nbsp;Ed Atkins ,&nbsp;Lidia Badarnah","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114772","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114772","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The role of residents in future smart energy systems and grids has been mainly seen as one of reactive users, responding to incentives or information often generated via automated processes. As new smart grids and smart energy systems begin to take shape, the active social role residents may play, especially in the context of international flexibility programmes and electrification transitions, becomes increasingly critical.</div><div>The paper draws on semi-structured interviews with 34 residents in the UK, that followed an analysis of 639 survey responses. Our insights show that two types of home energy managers are important to include in planning for energy transitions and electrification, not only in the UK, but also internationally, where electrification transitions are underway. Based on the results, we recommend that local and national governments address the following issues to strengthen the role of home energy managers in energy transitions: 1) creating a social energy culture as a service within neighbourhoods; 2) promoting policy development innovation through neighbourhood social energy learning; 3) including residents as active drivers of energy transitions and not only as passive receptors; 4) developing tailored visions for home energy management that move beyond generalist technological innovation and technocratic fixes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114772"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144604853","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}

{"title":"Policy silences in Nordic-Arctic energy transitions: A topic-modelling study","authors":"Hanna Vikström ,&nbsp;Erland Mårald ,&nbsp;Johan Junkka","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114746","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114746","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114746"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144589065","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}

{"title":"A relational approach to prosuming through energy communities: The case of CIREN in France","authors":"Aurore Dudka","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114761","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114761","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Current energy flexibility strategies often prioritise technical solutions or behavioural interventions targeting individual consumers—frequently with limited outcomes. This highlights the need for a more sociologically informed perspective. While Social Practice Theory has significantly advanced our understanding of energy use, this paper builds on and complements that work by adopting a relational sociological framework. The analysis focuses on CIREN, one of France's largest citizen-led prosuming initiatives, using a mixed-methods approach that combines a quantitative survey of 190 residents with 42 semi-structured interviews conducted with cooperative participants and a range of public and private stakeholders. This approach brings added value by shedding light on how flexibility emerges from social interactions within community contexts. The findings underscore the critical role of social relations—including affiliation, shared experiences, and affective engagement—in decision-making related to flexible energy use. These relational dynamics enable citizens to adapt their energy-related practices and also co-develop technical solutions to address flexibility challenges. The relational work fostered within energy communities also represents a socially innovative pathway for engaging vulnerable households. These insights call for socially innovative policies that place relational dynamics at the core, supported by frameworks that foster meaningful, empowering, and positive relationships with energy use.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114761"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144588904","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}

{"title":"Welfare impact of subsidies in oligopolistic markets: Evidence from Japan's gasoline market","authors":"Eiji Satoh ,&nbsp;Kaho Hirano ,&nbsp;Taiga Sato ,&nbsp;Eiki Shimada ,&nbsp;Ayana Sumiyoshi ,&nbsp;Satoshi Takahashi ,&nbsp;Hiroshi Tamaki ,&nbsp;Sora Yamamoto ,&nbsp;Kakeru Yamaguchi","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114768","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114768","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study empirically examines the welfare effect of government subsidies in Japan's oligopolistic gasoline market. We conducted a simulation analysis that incorporated the external costs associated with automobile use. The total deadweight loss from January 2022 to March 2024 was approximately 377.8 billion yen, which suggests that even in oligopolistic markets, lowering prices through subsidies worsens social welfare because of high external costs. Government policies to combat unprecedented gasoline price increases are not sustainable and should be terminated. Rather, gasoline prices should be increased to improve social welfare.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114768"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144580783","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}