Electricity JournalPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-09-22DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107512
Wei Ni , Kun Cheng , Feiyan Wang , Fang Fang
{"title":"An empirical study of data security risks in China’s intelligent connected vehicles: Public information processing and behavioral intentions","authors":"Wei Ni , Kun Cheng , Feiyan Wang , Fang Fang","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107512","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107512","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the rapid development of the global digital economy and the continuous expansion of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) industry ecosystem, the risks associated with data security, software vulnerabilities, communication hijacking, and privacy breaches in connected vehicles have become increasingly pronounced. Automotive data security now presents unprecedented complexities and challenges. Balancing data security and the development of intelligent connected vehicles has become a critical issue for the global automotive industry. Understanding how the public processes risk information and the key factors influencing their behavioral intentions in response to data security concerns in intelligent connected vehicles is essential for promoting the sustainable development of the IoV industry. In this study, we examined a typical data breach incident involving Chinese intelligent connected vehicles that occurred in December 2022 and conducted a survey of 468 vehicle owners. Using a two-stage hybrid Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique, we analyzed how the public processes information and forms behavioral intentions in response to this risk, as well as the relevant influencing factors. The results indicate that product knowledge, risk perception, and systematic information processing significantly affect citizens' coping behavioral intentions. Among them, product knowledge emerges not only as the strongest predictor of behavioral intentions but also as a key antecedent of risk perception, information need, and information seeking. Risk perception also facilitates information need and systematic processing to varying degrees. Furthermore, information need plays a significant mediating role between both product knowledge and information processing, as well as between risk perception and information processing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 107512"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145104776","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":"Navigating the electric storm: Assessing policy responses to Europe’s energy shock","authors":"Matteo Alpino , Emanuela Ciapanna , Luca Citino , Gabriele Rovigatti","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107474","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107474","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We take an off-the-shelf model of the day-ahead electricity market, in the spirit of (Reguant, 2019) and use it to study how different emergency policy interventions proposed in response to the 2021–2022 European energy crisis would feed into short run wholesale electricity price and quantity dynamics. Calibrating the model to Italian data, our analysis predicts that an EU-wide cap on natural gas prices significantly reduces electricity prices, while consumed quantities increase only marginally. A mandated reduction in electricity demand during peak hours leads to modest price declines, while a national cap on gas prices for electricity generation triggers a sharper increase in consumption due to cross-border trade incentives. These findings suggest that emergency interventions can mitigate the short-term impact of price shocks, though they may also introduce inefficiencies in terms of energy consumption and market distortions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 107474"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144314298","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}
Electricity JournalPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-09-25DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107503
Sreelatha Aihloor Subramanyam, Xuewei Zhang
{"title":"Pricing in the shadows of inattention: An information-theoretic model of prosumer inattention in residential solar tariff","authors":"Sreelatha Aihloor Subramanyam, Xuewei Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107503","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107503","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As distributed solar energy reshapes the dynamics of residential electricity markets, traditional pricing mechanisms are increasingly strained by behavioral realities on the ground. This article advances the field by integrating prosumer inattentiveness, a factor too often omitted from prevailing models, into a unified pricing framework grounded in information theory. Drawing on Shannon’s entropy to represent bounded attention, the paper present a generalized model that evaluates the welfare, prosumers’ utility and electric company’s profitability outcomes of three widely used solar tariffs: Feed-in Tariff (FIT), Net Metering (Net M), and Net Purchase and Sale (Net P&S). The findings are analytically rigorous and empirically validated using real-world data from Texas, revealing that behavioral frictions materially affect tariff performance. In particular, Net M and Net P&S outperform FIT in terms of social welfare under finite attention, while FIT offers greater revenue stability for electrical retail companies. These insights are timely and policy relevant, underscoring the imperative to align solar pricing strategies with actual user behavior. For regulators, electrical retail companies, and scholars alike, this work makes a compelling case for incorporating behavioral economics into energy tariff design. This is a necessary step toward achieving equitable, efficient, and resilient energy transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 107503"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145157222","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}
Electricity JournalPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-09-20DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107506
Jesse Dugan , Salman Mohagheghi
{"title":"Social vulnerability to long-duration power outages: A Survey of households in Colorado and Minnesota","authors":"Jesse Dugan , Salman Mohagheghi","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107506","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107506","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Long-duration power outages cause devastating impacts to society, which will only worsen as climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and natural disasters. However, few existing studies quantify the social impacts of power outages or investigate household-level social vulnerability specific to these events. Through a survey of 1050 households in Colorado and Minnesota, we examined patterns related to: (1) power outage exposure and household impacts, including negative health outcomes, (2) power outage preparedness, and (3) evacuation capacity due to a long-duration power outage. We analyze the survey data using statistical methods, including correlation tests, analysis of variance, Kruskal-Wallis tests, and association rule mining. Our results indicate that electricity-dependence is a key indicator of negative outcomes due to a power outage; that income, age, household size, and home size and type are indicators of power outage preparedness; and that gender, fear of looting, and presence of children, pets, and livestock are all factors that influence evacuation intention and means. Our results provide household-level insights into social vulnerability to long-duration power outages, which can inform equity-centered planning and operational decisions aimed at enhancing power grid resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 107506"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145748221","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":"Rethinking the hidden energy poverty indicator: Using electricity consumption quartiles to identify vulnerable households in South-Central Chile","authors":"Susana Clavijo-Núñez , Alexis Pérez-Fargallo , David Bienvenido-Huertas , Sergio Contreras-Espinoza","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107499","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107499","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Energy poverty is a complex and multidimensional problem that has been widely studied in countries of the global North, especially in the European Union. The methodologies and indicators developed in these countries are difficult to adapt to contexts as disparate as those of Latin America and the Caribbean. The objective of the article is to analyse whether simple indicators based on electricity consumption, such as the Hidden Energy Poverty Indicator, allow to measure energy poverty in this region. An intentional case study is taken as a set of households in South-Central Chile that have been identified as being in a situation of energy poverty by the Social Register of Households in Chile. New ranges are proposed to categorise households in energy poverty and vulnerability, analysing the indicators on monthly and annual time scales. The results show how by including new study ranges, such as the third quartile of electricity expenditure distribution of the household sample, it is possible to categorize impoverished homes more effectively in the study territory. It is hoped that this will facilitate the identification of vulnerable housing at a local level by the different actors working in energy policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 107499"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145748229","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}
Electricity JournalPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107518
Yeong Jae Kim , Kyonggi Min , Seong-Hoon Cho
{"title":"Energy transitions post–Russia–Ukraine war: challenges and policy implications in Germany and Italy","authors":"Yeong Jae Kim , Kyonggi Min , Seong-Hoon Cho","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107518","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107518","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the pursuit of global net-zero emissions by 2050, the Russia–Ukraine War has emerged as a potential disruptor, challenging progress toward this critical objective. We explore the repercussions of the conflict on the European Union’s initial energy transition goals, with a keen focus on electricity generation. Analyzing projections for coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, and renewable energy in Germany and Italy over the warring period, the study unveils divergent energy landscapes influenced by the conflict’s effects. Germany’s nuclear phase-out, coupled with the wartime surge in coal use, threatens its ability to meet the 2050 net-zero target. Despite minimal changes in electricity supply and GHG emissions in Italy, policymakers should continue implementing measures to reduce GHG emissions further. Both countries need more ambitious renewable targets. Recommendations for Germany encompass accelerating renewable deployment to offset the recent surge in coal use, whereas those for Italy focus on bolstering hydropower infrastructure, sustaining renewable investments, and strategizing natural gas imports.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 107518"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145361063","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}
Electricity JournalPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-25DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107519
Rohit Chandra, Sanjay Mitra
{"title":"Deep de-carbonization and its implications for regional equity: An Indian case study","authors":"Rohit Chandra, Sanjay Mitra","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107519","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107519","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>India’s ambitious targets call for a deep de-carbonization of the electricity sector through an accelerated deployment of renewable energy and reduced use of coal. This could exacerbate existing regional inequalities, between the states in the west and the south and those in the north and east. While variable renewable energy (VRE) sources namely, solar and wind are concentrated in a few states in the western and southern parts of the country, coal reserves occur mainly in the eastern part of the country which also happens to have the lowest VRE endowments. As the share of VRE in electricity production and consumption rises, these locational characteristics and the dominant role of state ownership in the electricity sector together will play into the finances of the VRE-poor states through higher expenditure on renewable energy and lower revenues from coal mining. This paper presents an assessment of the nature and extent of the fiscal impact of the mitigation policies centred on deep decarbonization of India’s electricity sector through deployment of renewable energy. Specifically, it looks at the impacts on the budget deficits of states with relatively low endowments of solar and wind resources. The impact could be quite substantial, adding 8.66 % to the combined deficits of the VRE-poor states under fairly conservative assumptions. The impact is most severe on the three coal-rich states of Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh. Absent an acceptable framework for an equitable sharing of costs and benefits across the states and with the Union government, these developments could impede the realization of the national goals for climate change mitigation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 107519"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145748228","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}
Electricity JournalPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107502
Rohit Vijay, Rahul Tongia
{"title":"Renewable energy and India's demand growth: Benchmarking aggregate energy and time-of-day feasibility under technical and policy variability","authors":"Rohit Vijay, Rahul Tongia","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107502","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107502","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>India faces rising electricity demand, which the Indian government aims to meet disproportionally with cleaner resources, e.g., with the targeted 500 GW of non-fossil capacity by 2030. However, whether this can balance demand growth or plateau coal remains uncertain. This study evaluates whether incremental RE can meet aggregate demand growth, examining time-of-day variations, asking if this can avoid higher fossil fuel use. We analyse incremental demand growth until 2030 and 2036 under diverse uncertainty, including different demand shapes and energy growth scenarios. We first assess annual energy adequacy, assuming storage shifts surplus energy into deficits, with uncertainty over varying CUFs for solar and wind, planned hydro, nuclear, and coal additions. We also examine the impact of solar-to-wind ratio, wind capacity limits, rooftop solar, and planned coal projects. Sensitivity analysis identifies the influence of demand growth, demand shape, CUFs, under-construction capacities, and solar-to-wind ratio on RE requirements and time-block surpluses/deficits. We then evaluate time-of-day demand and supply variations, analysing daily surpluses and deficits, including the role of under-construction hydro and nuclear in mitigating worst deficit days. Findings show that to meet 2030 demand growth with RE India would need 11.8 % more RE capacity than targeted. Demand growth and solar CUFs have the highest impact on RE requirements and surplus/deficit, with nonlinear effects from multiple variables. Over 100 days of renewable deficits and seasonal mismatches indicate challenges for storage, necessitating either significant RE overbuilding or greater thermal output, underscoring the need for accelerated RE deployment, grid flexibility, and demand-side measures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 107502"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145044128","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}
Electricity JournalPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-10-08DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107514
Steven Dahlke
{"title":"Balancing the grid: Import reliance and diversity in electricity systems","authors":"Steven Dahlke","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107514","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107514","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study evaluates electricity import reliance and diversity across U.S. balancing authorities, providing insights into grid reliability and risk management. Using formal metrics, including a diversity index and import reliance calculations, the analysis quantifies the characteristics of electricity imports across electricity systems. The relationship between import reliance and diversity is analyzed and assessed during high demand periods. Key findings reveal that larger balancing authorities with broad trading relationships tend to exhibit higher diversity and lower reliance on imports. During high net-demand periods, import reliance increases for some systems while decreasing for others, while import diversity tends to decline across most systems. The results also show that systems in the Northwest, Southwest, and Northeast United States generally show higher levels of import reliance. This study is the first in the literature to apply a formal diversity index to measure the diversity of electricity imports at the balancing authority level. The metrics offer a framework for planners and policymakers to benchmark their system and quantitatively assess import risks in resource plans.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"38 4","pages":"Article 107514"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145265831","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}
Electricity JournalPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-08-26DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2025.107497
Elkhan Richard Sadik-Zada
{"title":"Wind power subsidies: Fueling long-term renewable share but slowing short-term progress? An empirical study of OECD countries","authors":"Elkhan Richard Sadik-Zada","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107497","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tej.2025.107497","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the relationship between feed-in tariffs and the share of renewable energy in the electricity mix of 36 OECD member states, quantifying its strength using a range of panel data estimation techniques. The results reveal a statistically significant positive long-term association between feed-in tariffs for wind energy and the share of renewables in the electricity mix, contrasted by a negative association in the short term. Specifically, a one-cent increase in FiTs is associated with a 0.43–0.79 % rise in the share of renewables in the long term perspective. Additionally, a 1 % increase in per capita income corresponds to a 0.07–0.14 % increase in the share of renewables in the energy mix. However, in the short run, a one-cent increase in feed-in tariffs associates with a 0.23 % decrease in the share of renewables in the energy mix. Insights from seven expert interviews suggest that the counterintuitive short-term association is likely data-driven and may be explained by time lags required renewable electricity output to adjust to higher feed-in tariffs during expansion or boom phases of the business cycle.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":"38 3","pages":"Article 107497"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144895473","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}