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{"title":"Heatwaves and hardship: Shortcomings and solutions for enhancing the low income home energy assistance program to mitigate extreme heat and energy insecurity","authors":"Daniel Carrión ,&nbsp;Diana Hernández","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107440","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) must adapt and evolve to keep pace with the challenges posed by climate change and increased economic strain. Urgent action is needed to improve LIHEAP to effectively address extreme heat and energy insecurity faced by low-income households and protect the health and well-being of disadvantaged groups spurred by climate change. In evaluating LIHEAP’s shortcomings, we demonstrate that there is a substantial gap between program eligibility and enrollment, such that many households are not receiving this vital benefit or do so mainly when facing a crisis. We also show that LIHEAP funds overwhelmingly support cold-weather states even as record-breaking heat is a critical stressor. The spatial mismatch we unveil shows that southern states receive less LIHEAP funds despite higher cooling degree days and higher rates of energy insecurity. The importance of swift action based on sound data and up-to-date research can enhance the efficacy of LIHEAP, expand its reach, and ultimately improve the living conditions of millions of energy insecure households. We offer several recommendations to improve LIHEAP to ensure that this critical lifeline program remains an effective tool to mitigate energy insecurity and safeguard livelihoods in the face of extreme heat.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"37 7","pages":"Article 107440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142310866","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}

{"title":"Critical infrastructure organisational resilience assessment: A case study of Malawi’s power grid operator","authors":"Joyce Nyuma Chivunga ,&nbsp;Zhengyu Lin ,&nbsp;Richard Blanchard","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107427","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107427","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study presents a comprehensive assessment of organisational resilience within Malawi's power grid operator, linking resilience parameters, indicators, and capacities through a detailed case study. Utilising interviews and questionnaires, resilience parameters were obtained. Twenty resilience indicators were identified from established and documented research and were categorised into five distinct capacities: preventive and mitigative, anticipative, absorptive, adaptive, and transformative. This approach addresses a significant gap in the literature on organisational resilience, which often focuses predominantly on adaptive capacity. Our analysis compared resilience strengths and weaknesses, revealing a predominance of the latter, with financial constraint identified as a universal challenge across all capacities. Particularly, the transformative capacity exhibited the largest gaps between strengths and weaknesses, underscoring the operator's challenges in responding to severe disruptions. The findings suggest that resilience in the context of Malawi's power grid operator extends beyond operational capabilities, highlighting the critical importance of robust infrastructure to enhance the overall resilience framework. This work offers practical insights for policymakers and infrastructure managers, particularly in developing countries facing similar challenges. It calls for a strategic realignment towards bolstering transformative capacity and securing financial resources, enhancing critical infrastructure resilience, and underlining these proposed actions' urgency and importance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"37 7","pages":"Article 107427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040619024000629/pdfft?md5=53e317d27361b840de2787cf4eb7a54c&pid=1-s2.0-S1040619024000629-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142058057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Residential electricity efficiency and implications for Vietnam's clean energy transition","authors":"Lam Do,&nbsp;Le Viet Phu","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107428","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107428","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Vietnam’s electricity consumption relative to its average national income per capita is significantly higher than that of similar countries like India or China. Current electricity use is not sustainable and in the future may threaten energy supply security. Of the total electricity consumption, the residential sector accounts for up to a third, making it a critical component for policy interventions. We employ a stochastic frontier model and three rounds of nationally representative household living standards surveys from 2014 to 2018 to measure residential electricity efficiency and its determinants in Vietnam. Our result shows that the average electricity efficiency in Vietnam is approximately 75 %. We then discuss Vietnam’s potential electricity savings and recommend improvements which will be necessary if Vietnam wants to accelerate its long-term clean and sustainable energy prospects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"37 7","pages":"Article 107428"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142095241","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}

{"title":"Folding community engagement into decision making: A continuous process to increase equity in the energy system","authors":"Rebecca Tapio,&nbsp;Juliet Homer,&nbsp;Kendall Mongird,&nbsp;Jason Eisdorfer","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107442","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107442","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Utilities and state energy regulators have historically incorporated community participation late in the process of creating programs and policies, often after most or all decisions have already been made. As more organizations seek to address energy inequity, they have engaged stakeholders in a variety of ways and at different stages of program development with varying levels of success. In this paper, we propose a continuous participation and feedback approach to system equity improvements and evaluation that incorporates engagement in planning and decision making processes as an integrated cycle. We provide example methods for increasing participation, developing structures and processes to receive and incorporate feedback, and measuring outcomes. Equity outcomes are particularly difficult to measure due to the impact of other socioeconomic and historic conditions, as well as the qualitative nature of experiences of inequity. To identify a set of equity outcomes that can be impacted by increased participation, we examine the relationship between regulators, utilities, and the community, and propose that folding engagement and continuous feedback into the normal functions of these organizations can improve the outcomes for energy system users.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"37 7","pages":"Article 107442"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142552868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of political parties in the public perception of nuclear energy","authors":"Emrah Akyuz","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107429","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107429","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Discussions about nuclear energy in Türkiye are held in the shadow of the political polarization between the People's Alliance and the Nation's Alliance. However, there are no comprehensive studies that have investigated how political polarization affects the social acceptance of nuclear energy. To investigate these effects, face-to-face interviews (n=52) were conducted with people living around the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant. The study found two main results: first, the most important factor affecting the social acceptance of nuclear energy is the nuclear energy policies of the political parties they vote for; and second, those who vote for the People's Alliance, which advocates nuclear energy, have a high benefit perception, while those who vote for the Nation's Alliance, which opposes nuclear energy, have a high risk perception. The article concludes that Turkish nuclear energy policy is a highly political issue rather than just a strictly environmental one.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"37 7","pages":"Article 107429"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142058058","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}

{"title":"Does electricity consumption impact biocapacity deficit? Evidence from domestic and commercial electricity consumption in India","authors":"Ch. Sravan,&nbsp;Prajna Paramita Mishra","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107443","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107443","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasing population across the world poses challenges for the fulfilment of electricity demand across various sectors, and subsequently impacts biocapacity. As India is the second-most populous country and the third largest electricity consumer globally, such challenges need to be addressed. While it is true that, in the context of electricity, pollution stems from the producer’s side, that from the consumer’s side is largely ignored. Using the Vector Error Correction model, this study investigates whether electricity consumption from the domestic and commercial sectors has an impact on biocapacity deficit. The result shows that, in the long run, domestic electricity consumption is not significant in causing biocapacity deficit, whereas commercial electricity consumption has an increasing effect on the latter, making it unsustainable. Further, lower levels of income and natural resource rents are also observed to lead to biocapacity deficit. In the short run, however, neither domestic nor commercial consumption has any significant impact on biocapacity deficit. The findings call for an extended focus on the sustainable management of electricity consumption across sectors so that their adverse impact on biocapacity can be minimised.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"37 7","pages":"Article 107443"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142571649","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}

{"title":"“Made for corruption?” Private sector actors, renewable energy, and corruption risks for wind power in Mexico and solar electricity in Kenya","authors":"Benjamin K. Sovacool ,&nbsp;Saul Mullard ,&nbsp;Juan Camilo Ceballos","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107448","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107448","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A future decarbonized global energy sector could require up to $110 trillion in new investment. With so much funding at stake, it is likely that low-carbon energy systems will attract and perpetuate corruption. This paper aims at providing an overview of private-sector stakeholders in the renewable-energy realm and examines possibilities and instances of corruption at the interface between private climate interventions and international development. In this paper, corruption risks and instances facing wind energy (including a mix of offshore and onshore designs) and solar photovoltaic panels (in off-grid configurations) are investigated. Based on original expert interviews and document analysis, we explore corruption risks in two national contexts (Mexico and Kenya) before offering a suite of recommendations and solutions to address corruption, and a conclusion with suggestions for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"37 7","pages":"Article 107448"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who should be responsible? Responsibility attribution and public response to data security risks in China’s intelligent connected vehicles","authors":"Feiyan Wang ,&nbsp;Shanyong Wang ,&nbsp;Fang Fang ,&nbsp;Kun Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107445","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107445","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the global Internet of Vehicles (IoV) industry continues to expand, the associated risks, such as data security, software vulnerabilities, communication hijacking, and privacy breaches in intelligent connected vehicles, have become increasingly severe. This issue has emerged as an urgent concern for governments worldwide. Understanding the public's attribution of responsibility for these risks, the factors influencing such attributions, and how these attributions affect public response behaviors is crucial for creating an effective risk communication environment and promoting the healthy development of the IoV industry. Our study categorizes public response behaviors into defensive and positive coping behaviors on the basis of attitudes toward risk. We conduct surveys within and empirical analyses of major Chinese cities where intelligent connected vehicles are predominantly used and perform a heterogeneity analysis among cities of different administrative levels to explore how the public attributes responsibility and reacts to these risks. Data from 523 respondents indicate that while both types of response behaviors are influenced by risk perception and sources of information, only positive coping behaviors are affected by the attribution of responsibility. Responsibility attribution itself is influenced by risk perception, an individual's occupation, and information sources. Additionally, cities of different administrative levels show slight variations in the relationships among responsibility attribution, information sources, and response behaviors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"37 7","pages":"Article 107445"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142658420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"With uncertainty comes opportunity: Repurposing coal assets to create new beginnings in the U.S.","authors":"Ivonne Pena Cabra ,&nbsp;Jorge Izar-Tenorio ,&nbsp;Smriti Sharma ,&nbsp;Luke Clahane ,&nbsp;Arun K.S. Iyengar","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107431","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107431","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Coal power plants are retiring in the United States due to a sharp decline in natural gas prices along with an aging fleet, the rising cost of coal, and decarbonization goals. In the last five years alone (2019–2023), more than 58 gigawatts (GW) of coal power capacity retired in the United States, while almost 30 percent of the remaining 194 GW of operating capacity is expected to retire by 2040. The cessation of operations at an existing power plant can have important impacts on the local economy, including job loss and a potential reduction in total economic output. Repurposing these assets effectively, including conversion into other power generation technologies, industrial manufacturing facilities, or commercial buildings, among others, can at least partially offset any negative economic impacts. This paper provides a review of ongoing and planned repurposing activities related to former coal power plants (not including repurposing related to fuel-switching from coal to natural gas) being pursued by utilities across the United States and discusses the costs, benefits, and challenges presented by types of repurposing assets or prospects.<span><span>²</span></span> The review shows that the repurposing type and capacity of the new projects is typically unrelated to the asset type and capacity being retired. The decision to repurpose a retiring power plant or unit is a result of a combination of factors that include, among others, decommissioning costs, land availability, and financial and regulatory incentives directed towards a clean and just energy transition. A list of current planned, in-process (under construction), or completed repurposing projects for energy and non-energy alternatives is presented, including several reference examples of repurposing from fuels other than coal. Relevant factors to consider in repurposing existing retiring assets, including the relevance of incentives for retiring assets in a just energy transition, are identified and described.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"37 7","pages":"Article 107431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040619024000666/pdfft?md5=b8bda08521ad0fb03155253ee255a603&pid=1-s2.0-S1040619024000666-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142117446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rural electrification and women empowerment: Do bargaining game approaches with real household items reduce the bias?","authors":"Maxwell Clovice Kamanyire ,&nbsp;Fred Matovu ,&nbsp;Paul Wabiga ,&nbsp;Aisha Nanyiti","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2024.107420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2024.107420","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study, we examine the impact of rural electrification on women empowerment. Previous studies have examined this relationship mainly using self-reported measures of empowerment, and experimental approaches . We conduct an incentive-compatible framed field experiment in a natural household setting. We modify the public goods game by introducing a trade-off between real household items and cash in three scenarios: a woman-only case, a man-only case, and a joint decision case. We then construct a women empowerment index ranging between 0 and 1. A joint decision closer to 1 indicates greater bargaining power for the wife, while a joint decision closer to 0 indicates greater bargaining power for the husband. We then apply propensity score matching to address potential selection bias. We find households in rural electrification villages, to have higher women empowerment index.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"37 6","pages":"Article 107420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141595091","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}