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Evaluating readiness for hydrogen in the United States aviation industry from a policy lens 从政策角度评估美国航空业对氢的准备情况

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115188

A. Beutler-Greene , E.G. Waddington , P.J. Ansell

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Modelling UK air quality implications of decarbonisation using hydrogen 模拟使用氢脱碳对英国空气质量的影响

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115179

Adam Brighty , Francisca Jalil-Vega , Nicolás Ripoll Kameid , Seokyoung Kim , Tim Oxley , Daniel Mehlig , Mike Holland , Paul E. Dodds , Helen ApSimon

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Enabling enterprise coordination without fiscal burden: New policy pathways for coal waste management 使企业协调没有财政负担：煤炭废物管理的新政策途径

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115195

Jiaojiao Ge , Lun Ran , Jiancai Wang

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Household cooking in Nepal: An economic analysis 尼泊尔家庭烹饪：经济分析

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115194

Sunil Malla , Govinda R. Timilsina , Martin P. Heger

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Resource adequacy under institutional constraints and the low-carbon energy transition in China 制度约束下的资源充足性与中国低碳能源转型

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115108

Ming Wei , Boyu Yao , Michael R. Davidson

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Determinants of butane gas use by households in Burkina Faso: the role of road access 布基纳法索家庭使用丁烷气的决定因素：道路通道的作用

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115197

Moulirou Belem , Tibi Didier Zoungrana

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The end of gas 天然气的终结

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115166

Aaron Gillich

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Assessing vulnerability and energy poverty with emphasis on comfort adaptability: A case study of southeastern Mexico 以舒适适应性为重点的脆弱性和能源贫困评估：墨西哥东南部的案例研究

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115226

M. Jiménez Torres , O. May Tzuc , David Bienvenido-Huertas , José Israel Herrera , Román A. Canul Turriza , Alexis Pérez-Fargallo

{"title":"Assessing vulnerability and energy poverty with emphasis on comfort adaptability: A case study of southeastern Mexico","authors":"M. Jiménez Torres , O. May Tzuc , David Bienvenido-Huertas , José Israel Herrera , Román A. Canul Turriza , Alexis Pérez-Fargallo","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115226","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115226","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Energy Poverty is a multidimensional problem that fosters challenges in energy accessibility, social, and economic contexts for the population. The study aims to identify the degree of energy poverty at the municipal level in the southeastern states of Mexico using the Poverty Adaptive Degree Hourly Index (PADHI). The PADHI analyzes the projection of Energy Poverty, integrating adaptive thermal comfort models with indicators related to housing quality and family income. The results show that more than 65% of the southeast of the country is in the most vulnerable quintile, considering low income and housing quality, highlighting a structural problem related to income inequality and inadequate building regulations, considering the region's climatic characteristics. Additionally, a cluster analysis of the most vulnerable municipalities reveals the existence of two distinct patterns: one associated with urban contexts, mainly in capital cities, while the second group is linked to peripheral areas, where informal housing conditions and the highest levels of social exclusion prevail. These findings underscore the urgency of developing territorially differentiated energy policies, establishing mandatory local building codes, and implementing climate sensitive regulatory frameworks that can effectively mitigate energy poverty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"213 ","pages":"Article 115226"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147386857","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 right kind of energy: Understanding conservative support for clean energy in South Korea 正确的能源：了解韩国保守派对清洁能源的支持

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115127

Euibeom Son, Yookyung Chin, Ye Na Chae, Dasom Lee

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Energy storage adoption: Evidence from self-generation incentive program in California 能源储存的采用：来自加州自我发电激励计划的证据

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115125

Abdullah Albijadi

{"title":"Energy storage adoption: Evidence from self-generation incentive program in California","authors":"Abdullah Albijadi","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115125","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115125","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Residential energy storage systems can reduce grid stress, support renewable integration and enhance household resilience, yet their adoption remains costly. Governments and utilities therefore offer upfront rebates and tax incentives, but there is limited evidence on how these subsidies influence adoption and their cost-effectiveness. This study examines California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program, which offers declining rebates for household batteries, using data on all rebate applications and installations from 2017–2022. By exploiting step-downs in the rebate schedule across utility territories and over time, and controlling for fixed effects and other factors that affect adoption, I estimate the responsiveness of installations with respect to the rebate rate. A reduction of five cents per watt hour—the typical program step-down—reduces the daily installations by roughly 15 %. Counterfactual predictions suggest that, without the program, storage installations would have been about 42 % lower. Of the $177 million in rebates awarded, around $74 million accrued to infra-marginal adopters who would have installed storage anyway. The cost-effectiveness of this policy would imply $182 per tCO<sub>2</sub> under baseline assumptions. These findings indicate that upfront rebates can meaningfully accelerate home battery adoption but also generate substantial rents, highlighting the need for carefully calibrated incentives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 115125"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146116483","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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