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Environmental licensing of wind farms in the Global North and South: A review of guidelines and new proposals 全球北方和南方风电场的环境许可：指导方针和新建议的审查

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Electricity Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107513

Vanessa M. Santos , Rivelino Cavalcante

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Pricing in the shadows of inattention: An information-theoretic model of prosumer inattention in residential solar tariff 不注意阴影下的定价：住宅太阳能电价产消不注意的信息论模型

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Electricity Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107503

Sreelatha Aihloor Subramanyam, Xuewei Zhang

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An empirical study of data security risks in China’s intelligent connected vehicles: Public information processing and behavioral intentions 中国智能网联汽车数据安全风险实证研究：公众信息处理与行为意向

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Electricity Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107512

Wei Ni , Kun Cheng , Feiyan Wang , Fang Fang

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Renewable energy and India's demand growth: Benchmarking aggregate energy and time-of-day feasibility under technical and policy variability 可再生能源和印度需求增长：在技术和政策可变性下对总能源和每日时间可行性进行基准测试

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Electricity Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107502

Rohit Vijay, Rahul Tongia

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Corrigendum to “Flexible operation and fugitive methane emissions limit the potential of power plant carbon capture and storage” [Electr. J. 38 (2025) 107494] “灵活的操作和逸散的甲烷排放限制了发电厂碳捕获和储存的潜力”的勘误表。J. 38 (2025) 107494]

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Electricity Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107501

Thomas J.P. Hersbach , Michael D. Mastrandrea , Michael W. Wara

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Accelerating room air conditioner efficiency in India: Grid, economic, and policy implications through 2035 加速印度室内空调效率：到2035年的电网、经济和政策影响

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Electricity Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107493

Nikit Abhyankar, Jose Dominguez, Nihar Shah, Neelima Jain, Amol Phadke

{"title":"Accelerating room air conditioner efficiency in India: Grid, economic, and policy implications through 2035","authors":"Nikit Abhyankar, Jose Dominguez, Nihar Shah, Neelima Jain, Amol Phadke","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107493","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107493","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>India is poised for a rapid surge in space cooling demand, driven by rising incomes, urbanization, and intensifying heat. Between 2025 and 2035, the country is expected to add 130–150 million new room air conditioners (ACs). If Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) continue to improve at the historical rate of 2–3 % annually, room ACs alone could contribute over 180 GW to peak electricity demand by 2035-nearly 30 % of the projected national total. This study evaluates the impact of an accelerated MEPS trajectory, proposing to raise the 1-star threshold to ISEER 5.0 by 2027, ISEER 6.3 by 2030, and ISEER 7.4 by 2033. Drawing on engineering cost analysis, stock turnover modeling, and retail pricing data, we find that this pathway could reduce peak demand by over 60 GW, save 118 TWh of electricity annually, avoid 49 MtCO₂ of electricity-related emissions per year, avert ₹7.5 trillion (∼US$85 billion) in power system investments, and yield ₹0.7–2.3 trillion (∼US$8–26 billion) in net consumer savings by 2035. Contrary to affordability concerns, empirical trends show that higher efficiency does not increase AC prices. These results highlight the value of ambitious MEPS as a cost-effective strategy for improving grid reliability, reducing emissions, and advancing consumer welfare in emerging economies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"38 3","pages":"Article 107493"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Wind power subsidies: Fueling long-term renewable share but slowing short-term progress? An empirical study of OECD countries 风能补贴：推动长期可再生能源份额，但减缓短期进展？经合组织国家的实证研究

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Electricity Journal Pub Date : 2025-08-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107497

Elkhan Richard Sadik-Zada

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Does energy policy scholarship consider energy resilience? A bibliometric analysis and agenda for reform 能源政策奖学金考虑能源弹性吗？文献计量学分析和改革议程

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Electricity Journal Pub Date : 2025-08-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107496

Shardul Tiwari , Aritra Chakrabarty , Chelsea Schelly , Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani , Jianli Chen , Gaby Ou

{"title":"Does energy policy scholarship consider energy resilience? A bibliometric analysis and agenda for reform","authors":"Shardul Tiwari , Aritra Chakrabarty , Chelsea Schelly , Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani , Jianli Chen , Gaby Ou","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107496","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107496","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the extent to which the concept of energy resilience is integrated into energy policy scholarship and proposes future research agenda to strengthen engagement with energy resilience in energy policy making. Our study shows that energy resilience is absent in energy policy scholarship, or framed the other way round, energy policy scholarship is absent in the discussion of energy resilience topic. We used bibliometric analysis of literature across Scopus and ProQuest databases and applied keyword co-occurrence mapping and journal-keyword analysis techniques to assess how themes of energy resilience intersect with “community,” “disaster,” and “policy.” Our analysis reveals that energy resilience is predominantly framed within technical, systemic and infrastructural contexts, with limited interdisciplinary attention to its socio-economic, governance, and equity dimensions. Notably, resilience-related terms are underrepresented in leading policy journals, suggesting a disconnect between energy resilience as a concept and energy policy scholarship. We argue that advancing energy resilience as a structured policy agenda requires a holistic framework that integrates technical reliability with community-level resilience, institutional capacity, and justice considerations. This research provides empirical evidence of the thematic silos in the energy policy literature and offers a roadmap for incorporating energy resilience more substantively into energy policy design, implementation, and evaluation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"38 3","pages":"Article 107496"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144852927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Flexible operation and fugitive methane emissions limit the potential of power plant carbon capture and storage 灵活的操作和逸散的甲烷排放限制了发电厂碳捕获和储存的潜力

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Electricity Journal Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107494

Thomas J.P. Hersbach , Michael D. Mastrandrea , Michael W. Wara

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Mapping the electric vulnerability index: A metric for targeting energy storage resilience solutions 绘制电力脆弱性指数：针对储能弹性解决方案的度量

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Electricity Journal Pub Date : 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107498

Jessica Kerby, Lee Miller, Bethel Tarekegne

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