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Why is there low grid electricity access in rural Uganda? Evidence from the Uganda National Household Survey 为什么乌干达农村的电网接入率很低？来自乌干达全国家庭调查的证据

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114652

Herbert Murungi , Nelson Kiiza , Gideon Nkurunziza , Vincent Fred Ssennono , Sylvia Manjeri Aarakit

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Explaining public support for net-zero climate policy instruments: Perceptions of distributive fairness under competing frames 解释公众对净零气候政策工具的支持：在竞争框架下对分配公平的看法

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114644

Aaron Hoyle, Ekaterina Rhodes

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A qualitative analysis of consumer motivations and barriers towards active smart meter utilization 对主动智能电表使用的消费者动机和障碍的定性分析

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114623

Philipp Thunshirn, Ines Mlinaric, Jana Berg

{"title":"A qualitative analysis of consumer motivations and barriers towards active smart meter utilization","authors":"Philipp Thunshirn, Ines Mlinaric, Jana Berg","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114623","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114623","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Smart meter technology provides a range of benefits to residential endusers from reducing their energy consumption, increase renewable energy deployment and generate cost savings. Although the infrastructure in Vienna, Austria, is nearly fully deployed, the active utilization of smart meter functionalities, which is key to leverage its full potential, remains poor. This research explores motivational factors and barriers using qualitative data from 26 semi-structured interviews conducted in Vienna, Austria. In general, the willingness to use smart meters is high; however, awareness about their functionalities is low. Besides well-known factors of pro-environmental behavior and cost-savings analyzed in available literature, our results point out the relevance of self-determination, which is key for utilization. On the other side, information decifit, cognitive load, risk-aversion, have been identified as key barriers to utilization. Based on our results, we compare the findings to other countries with different rollout strategies. Finally, practical policy recommendations are discussed to increase active smart meter utilization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"203 ","pages":"Article 114623"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143844421","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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Navigating sustainability trade-offs in wind energy governance: The role of environmental regulators 在风能治理中导航可持续性权衡：环境监管机构的角色

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114645

Avri Eitan

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Strategic solar module stockpiling in the EU: A scenario-based analysis of costs and benefits beyond 2030 欧盟战略性太阳能组件储备：基于情景的2030年后成本和收益分析

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114626

Sebastian Zwickl-Bernhard , Maximilian Oitzinger , Helen Anais Fischer , Stian Backe

{"title":"Strategic solar module stockpiling in the EU: A scenario-based analysis of costs and benefits beyond 2030","authors":"Sebastian Zwickl-Bernhard , Maximilian Oitzinger , Helen Anais Fischer , Stian Backe","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114626","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114626","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>What are the optimal levels of strategic solar module stockpiles in the European Union (EU) for achieving climate neutrality by 2050, and how might such stockpiles influence efforts to bolster domestic solar manufacturing and recycling industries? This paper addresses these questions, delving into the underexplored area of strategic reserves in renewable energy systems and offering actionable insights for policymakers to ensure stable solar PV deployment. Using an extended open-source energy system optimization model, 36 scenarios varying in energy costs, import dynamics, and economic factors were analyzed. The results indicate that stockpiling is cost-effective in only 8 scenarios, primarily under unfavorable import conditions. In scenarios with stockpiles, domestic manufacturing levels are, on average, lower and required later compared to scenarios without stockpiles. Stockpiles reduce import dependency by introducing temporal flexibility between module injection and withdrawal, effectively diversifying supply strategies. Additionally, they stabilize optimal wind capacities, underscoring their broader systemic role. The associated costs are modest, increasing by just 0.2% in the reference scenario aligned with the latest Ten-Year Network Development Plan. Recycling and remanufacturing are not utilized in any scenario due to their higher costs compared to imports and EU manufacturing. From these findings, three policy recommendations emerge: (i) establish a strategic stockpile equivalent to three times the annual solar PV additions during the early 2030s, (ii) foster innovation in solar module recycling and remanufacturing in the meantime to build a resilient domestic industry, and (iii) monitor technological advancements to ensure the relevance and utility of stockpiled modules.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"203 ","pages":"Article 114626"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829546","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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How do digital government, circular economy, and environmental regulatory stringency affect renewable energy production? 数字政府、循环经济和环境监管严格程度如何影响可再生能源生产？

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114634

Ilhan Ozturk , Sana Ullah , Sidra Sohail , Muhammad Tayyab Sohail

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Building winning climate coalitions: Evidence from U.S. states 建立胜利的气候联盟：来自美国各州的证据

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114628

Samuel Trachtman , Irem Inal , Jonas Meckling

{"title":"Building winning climate coalitions: Evidence from U.S. states","authors":"Samuel Trachtman , Irem Inal , Jonas Meckling","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114628","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114628","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Liberal-leaning U.S. states have been at the forefront of climate policy action, despite continued political power of fossil fuel interests. We argue that two shifts have fundamentally changed the interest group politics of decarbonization in the U.S., and enabled more ambitious state-level climate policy. First, the pro-climate organizational landscape has broadened due to clean energy deployment, greater philanthropic support, the emergence of mass mobilization, and rise of environmental justice groups. Second, falling clean energy costs enhance opportunities to fracture fossil fuel coalitions, as some carbon-intensive interests make investments towards a low-carbon future. We argue that these developments highlight the importance of building and maintaining broad pro-climate coalitions, and fracturing fossil fuel opposition through policy designs that garner support from carbon-intensive interests with decarbonization options. We leverage stakeholder interviews to study climate policymaking in Colorado, Illinois, and New York in the aftermath of Democrats taking unified control of these state governments in 2018. Generally, policy enactment also depended on the formation of broad pro-climate coalitions that included both professionalized and grassroots environmental groups. In addition, designing bills that brought industrial labor unions and electric utilities to positions of support or neutrality was critical to reducing the ability of fossil fuel coalitions to block new policies. Overall, our analysis indicates the emergence of greater opportunities to pass ambitious decarbonization policies, as the interest group politics of climate move from fossil fuel dominance to a more contested landscape.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"203 ","pages":"Article 114628"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143825599","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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Microeconometric analysis of energy poverty and urban-rural welfare disparities in Tunisia: Implications for sustainable development policy 突尼斯能源贫困和城乡福利差距的微观计量分析：对可持续发展政策的影响

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114636

Amal Jmaii

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Atomic rivers. The (Un)sustainability of nuclear power in an age of climate change 原子的河流。核能在气候变化时代的可持续性

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114631

Alicia Gutting , Per Högselius , Patricia Burkhardt-Holm

{"title":"Atomic rivers. The (Un)sustainability of nuclear power in an age of climate change","authors":"Alicia Gutting , Per Högselius , Patricia Burkhardt-Holm","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114631","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114631","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The sustainability of nuclear energy amidst climate change and environmental regulations poses critical challenges, particularly in European contexts where major rivers like the Rhine, the Danube, and the Rhône are experiencing declining water levels and rising temperatures. We scrutinise the operational difficulties nuclear power plants encounter, arising from insufficient cooling water and environmental mandates that prevent the discharge of overly warm cooling water into rivers. These conditions have led to partial or full shutdowns of nuclear facilities across France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Romania, and other countries, emphasising the tension between nuclear energy as a low-carbon solution and its environmental impacts. We explore the concept of sustainability in the context of riverine nuclear energy from three angles: technical challenges posed by water scarcity, regulatory constraints on cooling water temperatures, and the ecological impacts of thermal discharges on riverine ecosystems. Our analysis reveals an emerging contradiction between ensuring electricity supply and adhering to environmental protection, highlighting the need for a reevaluation of nuclear energy's role in a future sustainable energy landscape.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"203 ","pages":"Article 114631"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823263","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 impact of FDI- and import-related technology spillovers from government-funded green energy R&D in developed countries on CO2 emissions in developing countries 发达国家政府资助的绿色能源研发的FDI和进口相关技术溢出对发展中国家二氧化碳排放的影响

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114635

Dierk Herzer

{"title":"The impact of FDI- and import-related technology spillovers from government-funded green energy R&D in developed countries on CO2 emissions in developing countries","authors":"Dierk Herzer","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114635","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114635","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the impact of FDI- and import-related technology spillovers from government-funded green energy R&D in developed countries on CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in developing countries. It focuses on the G7 countries as source countries for these spillovers and uses panel data for up to 63 developing countries between 2009 and 2020 to analyze whether such spillovers exist and whether their impact depends on the share of FDI and imports from developed countries, respectively, in the GDP of developing countries. For the full sample, we find no evidence that import-related spillovers from government-funded green energy R&D in developed countries reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in developing countries. In contrast, the results for the full sample indicate that reductions in CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in developing countries are driven by FDI-related spillovers of government-funded green energy R&D in developed countries and that these reductions increase with the share of FDI from developed source countries in developing countries’ GDP. These findings based on total stocks of FDI- and import-share-weighted government-funded green energy R&D remain qualitatively unchanged when we use disaggregated foreign R&D stocks by green energy categories. Subsample regressions suggest that the magnitude of these spillovers varies with the level of industrialization and GDP per capita.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"203 ","pages":"Article 114635"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143820439","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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