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The influence of coal price uncertainty on investment and consumption dynamics: Evidence from China

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114517

Boqiang Lin, Tianxu Lan

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Do cooking characteristics and household amenities matter for cooking fuel choice, clean fuel transition, and clean fuel consumption in India?

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114510

Krishan Sharma , Nida Rahman

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Implementing Seoul's greenhouse gas management in buildings: Insights from the SICE model

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114511

In Chang Hwang, Yoonhye Yi, Hyun-jung Lee, Jong-rak Baek

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Navigating the rise of energy communities in Estonia: Challenges and successes through case studies

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114514

Maarja Meitern

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Exploring local CO2 mitigation strategies in transportation under ambitious national policies – A participatory energy system modelling approach

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114513

Jonas Forsberg , Carina Lundmark , Anna Krook-Riekkola

{"title":"Exploring local CO2 mitigation strategies in transportation under ambitious national policies – A participatory energy system modelling approach","authors":"Jonas Forsberg , Carina Lundmark , Anna Krook-Riekkola","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114513","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114513","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sweden has adopted ambitious climate targets which require deep cuts in CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from transportation. To achieve this, policies to incentivise road vehicle electrification and progressive blending-in of biofuels have been adopted. Many local governments have committed to doing their share, but the impact of local strategies remains unclear. Here, locally rooted mitigation strategies are explored by applying an iterative participatory energy-system modelling approach with multiple researcher-practitioner interactions stretching over two years. A comprehensive Energy System Optimisation Model (ESOM) was used to assess the impact of local mitigation strategies in 15 municipalities, under a set of existing ambitious national policies. The results show that, while local strategies can help reduce energy-related CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, their direct impact is reduced under ambitious national policies that significantly cut CO<sub>2</sub>. Still, local mobility management strategies can help cut total final energy demand and have local benefits such as improved air quality and reduced traffic noise. Local policymakers should put a stronger emphasis on such benefits. Finally, the long-term participatory approach was a resource-intensive undertaking, but it helped to build practitioners’ trust and created an environment for mutual learning and a deeper understanding of the impact of different mitigation options in the local context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"198 ","pages":"Article 114513"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094960","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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Evaluating the economic and environmental impacts of distributed photovoltaic policy: Insights from county-level data in China

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114509

Yubao Wang , Junjie Zhen

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Financial inclusion, mental health, and energy poverty: Evidence from China

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114508

Zhiyang Wang , Shuyang Wen , Wei Zhang , Yao Zou

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Making hay while the sun shines: Energy security pathway for Africa

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114512

David Iheke Okorie

{"title":"Making hay while the sun shines: Energy security pathway for Africa","authors":"David Iheke Okorie","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114512","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114512","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Should Africa rather delay investments in renewable energy given their trivial contributions to global greenhouse gas emissions? This is strongly discouraged given the existing benefits of increased renewable energy investments in an African economy. Nigeria, the leading African economy is adopted as a representative to illustrate the prospects of improved (renewable) energy security in Africa. This study develops a dynamic recursive general equilibrium model to evaluate the prospects of renewable energy investment paths for Africa towards improving its energy security levels. Unlike other competing models, this model allows businesses to dynamically substitute between intermediate renewable energy and fossil fuel products, thus, taking active steps towards achieving a green economy. The results show that present economic welfare will be sacrificed for future welfare benefits and improved energy security. This confirms the transitioning of an economy from a lower steady state to a higher steady state path as postulated by the Solow model. However, a sustained gradual investment in the renewable energy sector yields the least welfare loss as the economy transitions through its energy security path. The one-off policy design produces relatively higher results in the immediate future while the sustained gradual incremental path smoothens these results into the far future. The results confirm that Africa's demand for renewable energies substantially outweighs its supply, thereby suggesting a potential and non-trivial market for renewable energies, nonetheless. Results-based policies that are geared towards improving energy security are formulated for the African economies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"198 ","pages":"Article 114512"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099549","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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Competition and climate policy in the steel transition: Comparing costs and subsidies in the US and the EU

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114507

Jonas Algers , Jindan Gong , Björn Nykvist , Max Åhman

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An equilibrium model of the Chinese carbon trading market under the uncertainty of market demand: Application to thermal power industry

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114505

Gang Ma , Biao Zhang , Xu Li , Jianping Zheng

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