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Overcoming barriers to heat pump adoption among able-to-pay households 克服在有能力支付的家庭中采用热泵的障碍

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114660

Ruzanna Chitchyan

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Decommissioning without Financial Fallout: Reforming Public Nuclear Funds 无财务后果的退役：改革公共核基金

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114723

Ján Mykhalchyk Hradický , Robert Sabovčík

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The power of institutional innovation in the urban carbon unlocking: A study on collaborative empowerment of digital policy and new energy policy 城市碳释放中的制度创新力量：数字政策与新能源政策协同赋权研究

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114721

Neng Shen , Lin Zhang , Qunwei Wang , Lianjun Wu

{"title":"The power of institutional innovation in the urban carbon unlocking: A study on collaborative empowerment of digital policy and new energy policy","authors":"Neng Shen , Lin Zhang , Qunwei Wang , Lianjun Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114721","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114721","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The coordinated implementation of new energy policy and digital policy is a key institutional innovation for carbon unlocking in China. This study, based on constructing urban carbon unlocking efficiency, conducts a quasi-natural experiment on dual policy coordination empowerment through New Energy Demonstration City Pilots and the \"Broadband China\" Strategy. Utilizing panel data from 273 prefecture-level cities in China from 2012 to 2022 and dual machine learning models, the research examines the synergistic mechanism and multidimensional effects of dual policy in promoting carbon unlocking efficiency. The findings reveal that the dual policy exhibit a clear synergistic effect on carbon unlocking, with the empowering effect of combined policies being more pronounced compared to singular policies, a conclusion that remains robust after a series test. Moreover, the dual policy indirectly support carbon unlocking through environmental attention, technological innovation, and industrial upgrading. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the dual policy has a more significant positive impact in central cities, cities with a high level of digital economy, and cities with a focus on environmental protection, underscoring the importance of tailored advancement of dual policy. This research provides valuable insights for governments in achieving the carbon unlocking through enhancing the coordination of \"green-digital\" policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114721"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144240886","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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Between national trends and local realities: Spatializing energy vulnerability in 16 EU countries 在国家趋势和地方现实之间：16个欧盟国家能源脆弱性的空间化

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114695

Jonas Lieth, Dennis Abel, Stefan Jünger

{"title":"Between national trends and local realities: Spatializing energy vulnerability in 16 EU countries","authors":"Jonas Lieth, Dennis Abel, Stefan Jünger","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114695","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114695","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Capturing energy poverty and its social and spatial inequalities is crucial for understanding the specific needs and effects of place-based energy policies. However, detailed EU cross-country comparisons are still scarce and do not account for the socio-spatial underpinnings of vulnerability to energy poverty. In this article, we construct a small-scale multidimensional energy vulnerability index based on 22 indicators spanning 16 countries from the European Union. Unlike previous EU-wide energy poverty indices, the proposed index captures the multifaceted nature of energy vulnerability using subindices on energy literacy, behavior, material conditions, and climate. We use PCA to combine theoretical and data-driven approaches for index creation. Additionally, we employ a geographically weighted approach that highlights the limitations of national trends compared with local realities. Case studies of Spain, the Netherlands, and Czechia help us map context-specific understandings of energy vulnerability. The vulnerability index presented in this paper constitutes a first attempt at measuring the small-scale socio-spatial nature of energy vulnerability in the EU. Our findings emphasize the importance of considering factors such as energy literacy, behavior, housing conditions, and health disparities in understanding energy injustice. We provide insights into the shifted energy landscapes following a series of political and economic disruptions in Europe.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114695"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144240742","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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Accelerating heat pump adoption in Switzerland: An agent-based policy assessment 加速热泵在瑞士的采用：基于代理的政策评估

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114718

Linda Brodnicke, Giacomo Rizzo, Giovanni Sansavini

{"title":"Accelerating heat pump adoption in Switzerland: An agent-based policy assessment","authors":"Linda Brodnicke, Giacomo Rizzo, Giovanni Sansavini","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114718","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114718","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Decarbonizing residential heating via heat pumps is expected to be crucial for reducing emissions in the Swiss residential building sector, yet their adoption remains insufficient. This study employs an agent-based model (ABM) to evaluate the effectiveness of policy interventions in accelerating heat pump adoption at the household level. The ABM simulates the heat pump adoption by single- and multi-family houses using the implicit discount rate (IDR) as a measure for the agents’ willingness to invest. We analyze the impact of a carbon tax (120 CHF/ton <span><math><msub><mtext>CO</mtext><mn>2</mn></msub></math></span>), a 20 % investment subsidy, and a combination of both on heat pump adoption rates by 2035. In the absence of policy support, heat pump adoption is projected to reach 40 %, missing the national target of 55 %. The introduction of either policy measure increases adoption to 46–47 %, and their combined implementation achieves national targets. Policies reducing upfront investment costs are more effective than those targeting operational costs due to individuals’ high IDRs of 50.3 %. We find that households systematically undervalue long-term financial benefits and are reluctant to make investments. A comprehensive policy mix integrating financial incentives with mechanisms to lower the IDR, including targeted low-interest loans, heating-as-a-service business models, and information campaigns would help overcome these barriers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 114718"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144221217","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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Exploring the EU sustainability divide: Analyzing disparities in climate investments 探索欧盟可持续性鸿沟：分析气候投资的差异

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114701

Catarina Coelho, Catarina Neves, Frederico Cruz-Jesus

{"title":"Exploring the EU sustainability divide: Analyzing disparities in climate investments","authors":"Catarina Coelho, Catarina Neves, Frederico Cruz-Jesus","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114701","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114701","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given the undeniable climate crisis, understanding how the European Union (EU) is investing in fighting against climate change is of critical importance. It is therefore essential to explore whether these efforts and investments reflect a unified strategy or disparities among member states. To achieve this, a factor and cluster analysis is conducted on seven key dimensions of current EU climate change investments, identifying two focus areas: renewable energy and electric mobility (e-mobility). The cluster analysis categorizes EU countries into five distinct groups, ranging from sustainability leaders to laggards. Additionally, the evolution of these disparities is analyzed over time (2018–2020). Findings reveal that Denmark, Luxembourg, and Sweden, emerge as sustainability leaders, in both renewables and e-mobility, showing great capacity e expanding HRES investment and contributing significantly to national load balancing and GHG reductions. In contrast, other nations prioritize one area while neglecting the other, hindering balanced sustainability progress. Additionally, while the variation in the renewables decreased over time, indicating a narrowing asymmetry in this dimension, the variation in the e-mobility increased significantly, reflecting a widening gap. Though progress is evident, achieving a more unified and balanced sustainability strategy across the EU requires further investment in both renewables, including HRES, and e-mobility, alongside policy initiatives that promote holistic climate action and reduction of emissions. Strengthening national implementation plans, financial incentives, and public awareness, together with a cross-country knowledge-sharing initiatives, are suggested to improve the fair and sustained progress of all countries toward the EU's green transition goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 114701"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144230137","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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Cataloging US state policy patterns towards microgrid deployment 对美国各州微电网部署的政策模式进行编目

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114719

Maham Furqan , Miguel Heleno

{"title":"Cataloging US state policy patterns towards microgrid deployment","authors":"Maham Furqan , Miguel Heleno","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114719","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114719","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Frequent extreme weather events have called for rigorous and timely efforts for alternative non-wire solutions. These efforts are getting more widespread to offer a perfect alternative as the conventional grid becomes progressively less resilient. One of these solutions is microgrids that can disconnect from the grid and offer grid resilience during an outage. While this technology is still finding its footing in the industry, states across the US are employing policy patterns and forms of instruments to support its deployment. This study includes a systemic review of the US by conducting a binary analysis of all 50 states (including Washington D.C, excluding other US territories) using seven variables. The results show four major policy approaches to microgrids: i) supporting microgrids through a definitive legislative activity leading to further policy action; ii) direct efforts from the public utilities commissions without a concrete legislative push; iii) initiatives from institutions other than the commissions; and lastly, iv) self-initiated community and private consumer efforts. The results help understand what policy instruments are being used in each of these patterns to support this niche technology that still faces regulatory challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 114719"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144203272","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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Regulating TSO interaction in bid filtering for European balancing markets 规范欧洲平衡市场竞价过滤中的TSO互动

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114713

Marie Girod , Viktor Terrier , Virginie Dussartre , Jean-Yves Bourmaud , Yannick Perez , Benjamin Donnot

{"title":"Regulating TSO interaction in bid filtering for European balancing markets","authors":"Marie Girod , Viktor Terrier , Virginie Dussartre , Jean-Yves Bourmaud , Yannick Perez , Benjamin Donnot","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114713","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114713","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Europe is undertaking projects for near real-time common balancing markets to meet the flexibility needs induced by renewable deployment. A new congestion management method, bid filtering, has been authorized by regulation to prevent unsolvable last minute congestion. It is designed to manage internal congestion and is performed by each Transmission System Operator (TSO) separately without knowledge of bids in other zones. Bids from all zones are shared in the same market, which means filtering from one TSO could affect welfare in other zones, depending on its objective and on regulation. This paper evaluates the potential effects of multiple TSOs interacting with different filtering strategies. Three TSO strategies are considered – Benevolent, Local, and Conservative – and different combinations are tested using multi-agent reinforcement learning. Results show that although several TSOs filtering benevolently leads to the highest net Social Welfare, it is unlikely that all TSOs will adopt this strategy considering political and social constraints in EU27 countries. We discuss several regulatory options to create the conditions for a Social Welfare-maximizing filtering and foster coordination between TSOs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 114713"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144203273","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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Coal communities’ views on local economic Futures: Implications for energy transition policy and planning 煤炭社区对地方经济未来的看法：对能源转型政策和规划的影响

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114717

Pierce Greenberg , Terence Asitibasi , Aysha Bodenhamer

{"title":"Coal communities’ views on local economic Futures: Implications for energy transition policy and planning","authors":"Pierce Greenberg , Terence Asitibasi , Aysha Bodenhamer","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114717","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114717","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Energy transition policies must consider the future of local communities that have been historically dependent on fossil fuel jobs, but policymakers face challenges in engaging with those communities. This problem is especially acute in southern West Virginia—which once had some of the largest reserves of coal in the U.S. but is now a region marred by socioeconomic and environmental challenges. While government agencies, private businesses, and non-profit organizations have proposed transition policies for the region, little research exists on how residents in southern West Virginia perceive the economic futures of their communities. Our research uses unique survey data from more than 500 respondents in southern West Virginia in 2017 to describe community sentiment about possible economic futures. We present both quantitative and qualitative data on what residents see as their community's most probable economic future. The results show that residents largely see fossil fuel extraction as continuing to support jobs in the future—and the renewable energy sector is among the industries they perceive as least likely to provide future jobs. Further, there are few demographic differences in these results. However, respondents are willing to consider alternatives to coal—especially those related to mine reclamation, tourism, and manufacturing. These findings highlight a disconnect between some large-scale transition policy proposals and communities' own views of transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 114717"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144203271","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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Designing for dual-use solar: An examination of the agrivoltaic policy landscape in the United States 两用太阳能的设计：对美国农业光伏政策景观的考察

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Energy Policy Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114682

Abe Macy, Tyler Swanson, Carrie Seay-Fleming, Andrea K. Gerlak, Greg A. Barron-Gafford

{"title":"Designing for dual-use solar: An examination of the agrivoltaic policy landscape in the United States","authors":"Abe Macy, Tyler Swanson, Carrie Seay-Fleming, Andrea K. Gerlak, Greg A. Barron-Gafford","doi":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114682","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114682","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Efforts to achieve a transition to a clean energy grid in the United States necessitate the development of a significant amount of land for solar energy, particularly in rural settings. However, as demand for solar energy grows, so too does local opposition that may threaten the realization of a clean energy transition. An increasingly popular solution for local opposition to solar energy in the United States is agrivoltaics, the dual use of land for both agricultural and solar energy production, and many states are crafting policy to support its development. However, the novel United States agrivoltaics policy landscape is underexplored in the literature. In this perspective, we conduct a policy review of the existing United States federal and state agrivoltaics policy landscape with the objective of establishing an agenda for future research. We organize existing agrivoltaic policies into a categorical archetypes of common policy approaches: pollinator-friendly scorecards, use value assessment laws, research funding programs, and feed-in tariff programs. We also discuss proposed federal legislation that, if enacted, would further expand the federal agrivoltaic policy landscape. We conclude by using the newly created agrivoltaic policy framework to establish three themes for future agrivoltaics policy research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11672,"journal":{"name":"Energy Policy","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 114682"},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144203274","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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