Alexandra Mallett , Hasrat Kathuria , Prosanto Pal , Kapil Sunil Thool
{"title":"Pathways for the Indian steel sector: Realizing low carbon industrial clusters through a place-based approach in eastern India","authors":"Alexandra Mallett , Hasrat Kathuria , Prosanto Pal , Kapil Sunil Thool","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104209","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104209","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is an increasing realization that current methods to produce materials which underpin modern society such as steel are unsustainable, a challenge particularly acute in India, a rapidly growing economy. However, amidst growing calls for ‘just transitions’ and the need to use a ‘place-based’ approach, conventional strategies for decarbonization that emphasize the adoption of frontier technologies by the steel majors may not be as applicable for certain industrial clusters in India such as those with many smaller firms. So how can industrial clusters in India embark upon sustainability pathways including decarbonization in a just, equitable way? To what extent do history, place-based identity, local socio-economic dynamics and public policy play a role and how?</div><div>Through document analysis and field research in two steel clusters in eastern India, the most prominent topic discussed by informants was around local socio-economic dynamics, followed by public policies supporting people and place-based identity, and then history. This reiterates the need for pathways to decarbonize clusters to emphasize the local. Furthermore, place-based themes were more pronounced in Giridih, suggesting that for certain clusters placed-based factors may play a stronger role in their potential to decarbonize. Specifically, we found that history influenced variation in workers' wellbeing by firms and awareness of rights and existence of social programs from government. Place attachment existed to both sacred places around the cluster and the cluster itself in Giridih), Place-based identity related to the cluster (steel, coal) and their surroundings (in Giridih to sacred places nearby) was also important. Local socio-economic dynamics helped explain which actors were deemed most legitimate: local elites in Giridih; central and state government in Durgapur such as the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). Policies affecting people (social) such as workers' benefits varied depending on the cluster. These insights can help to develop appropriate decarbonization pathways within respective clusters; ones in which people and places are at the core.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104209"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144604314","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}
Eleftheria Zisarou , Panagiotis Fragkos , Dirk-Jan Van De Ven , Shivika Mittal , Natasha Frilingou , Clàudia Rodés-Bachs , Stefanos Tsotras , Angelos Potiriadis , Georgios Xexakis , Konstantinos Koasidis , Haris Doukas , Adam Hawkes , Alexandros Nikas
{"title":"A window of (missed) opportunity? A comprehensive stocktake and energy-system impact assessment of global COVID-19 recovery packages","authors":"Eleftheria Zisarou , Panagiotis Fragkos , Dirk-Jan Van De Ven , Shivika Mittal , Natasha Frilingou , Clàudia Rodés-Bachs , Stefanos Tsotras , Angelos Potiriadis , Georgios Xexakis , Konstantinos Koasidis , Haris Doukas , Adam Hawkes , Alexandros Nikas","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104216","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104216","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>COVID-19 reshaped global economic priorities at the time, with recovery packages offering unprecedented fiscal stimuli aimed at revitalising economies from the impacts of the pandemic and associated policy responses—including lockdowns. While these packages were quickly framed as an opportunity for aligning socioeconomic recovery spending with near- and longer-term climate goals, early assessments of their decarbonisation footprint were constrained by and/or oriented towards optimistic interpretations of the limited information available then. We examine the potential of recovery packages to bridge the medium- and long-term climate ambition gap towards meeting the Paris Agreement goals. To enable such a comprehensive assessment, we first develop an open-access database of global green recovery measures. Second, we explicitly translate these measures as inputs into three Integrated Assessment Models, to assess their implications for energy systems, emissions, and technology development globally. Third, we quantify the missed opportunity in global recovery spending in terms of accelerating the clean energy transition, by exploring a theoretical reallocation of funding from energy affordability measures towards green technologies. Our results suggest that, while the actual synthesis of global recovery funding may not be sufficient to boost climate efforts towards meeting the Paris climate goals with sustained effects post-2030, redirecting part of the funds to low-carbon technologies could accelerate decarbonisation and electrification trends in some sectors. Whether or not the global COVID-19 recovery portfolio is adjusted to better support transition goals, recovery funds alone cannot guarantee a comprehensive and effective transition; this requires complementary systemic reforms, targeted sectoral strategies, and international collaboration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104216"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144597336","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}
{"title":"Energy burden: Exploring the intersection of race, income, and community characteristics across the United States","authors":"George C. Homsy , Ki Eun Kang","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104207","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104207","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Household energy burden is a simple concept with complicated causes. Energy burden measures the percentage of income spent by a household on energy for heating, lighting, air conditioning, cooking, etc. Households with greater energy burdens may have to make tradeoffs between paying utility bills and medical, housing, or other expenses. Some limited quantitative and case study research indicates that underprivileged groups suffer larger energy burdens, often attributed to lower income levels. Our study is the first to examine the phenomenon nationally as well as investigate the drivers of energy burden on households across the United States. Our examination of energy burden across all measurable census tracts in the United States (<em>n</em> = 64,835) finds that even when accounting for income, majority African American census tracts face significantly increased average energy burden with largely Latinx census tracts less challenged. To explore this social occurrence, we examine the intersectionality of race, income, and structural challenges in these neighborhoods. We find that average building age and homeownership rates impact energy burden and are two factors that overburden African American households. We discuss some historical and programmatic factors that our analysis points to as potential causal mechanisms for the higher energy burden in African American communities. The goal of a just energy transition to lower carbon emissions requires that policymakers understand that energy burden is not simply a matter of income, but a complex set of historical and structural causes that face households with multiple vulnerabilities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104207"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144588459","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}
Rebecca A. Efroymson , Patricia Romero-Lankao , Esther S. Parish , Keith L. Kline , William D. Bryan , Dave Effross , Berneece S. Herbert , Cassandra Johnson Gaither , Stacie B. Peterson , Lis F. Blanco , Nicole E. Rosner , Brianna Farber , Andrea Bailey , Ja’Wanda S. Grant
{"title":"Siting bioenergy facilities in the United States: Measuring participation in decisions and distribution of effects","authors":"Rebecca A. Efroymson , Patricia Romero-Lankao , Esther S. Parish , Keith L. Kline , William D. Bryan , Dave Effross , Berneece S. Herbert , Cassandra Johnson Gaither , Stacie B. Peterson , Lis F. Blanco , Nicole E. Rosner , Brianna Farber , Andrea Bailey , Ja’Wanda S. Grant","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Indicators are crucial for measuring progress in sustainability, community development, and energy equity objectives. Thus, indicators are vital for siting or repurposing energy facilities, revealing benefits and adverse effects on underserved communities compared to those under baseline or alternative conditions. However, the use of quantitative metrics can reduce the assessment of progress to a technical exercise of data collection, frequently lacking citizen participation. In this paper, we emphasize the importance of incorporating procedural and distributional justice into the siting process, through the identification of indicators aimed at avoiding the perpetuation of or increase in socioeconomic disparities. More specifically, we describe the process through which a diverse committee of US agriculture, energy, and environmental justice stakeholders and experts, along with US energy researchers, collaboratively developed a list of indicators reflecting justice objectives for siting bioenergy. Stakeholders emphasized categories of procedural justice indicators such as trust, influence, informed consent, and private property rights, whereas energy burden, for example, was identified as an important distributional justice indicator. The proposed indicators can be selected or modified to reflect local needs and priorities. This paper demonstrates that indicators can be developed through participatory processes to guide stakeholders to make informed decisions regarding siting and permitting of biorefineries or biopower facilities. These indicators enable the comparison of siting options; early identification of key problems, concerns, or priorities; and tracking of progress toward justice-related targets. Ultimately, this approach contributes to a more equitable and sustainable energy transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104166"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144588450","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}
Tomáš Krejčí , Stanislav Martinát , Petr Dvořák , Marián Kulla , Petr Klusáček , Kamil Pícha , Ladislav Novotný , Loránt Pregi , Josef Navrátil
{"title":"Digesting the truth: The role of energy justice in perception of anaerobic digestion plants in Central Europe rural space","authors":"Tomáš Krejčí , Stanislav Martinát , Petr Dvořák , Marián Kulla , Petr Klusáček , Kamil Pícha , Ladislav Novotný , Loránt Pregi , Josef Navrátil","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104210","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104210","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Anaerobic digestion (AD) plants are integral to the circular economy, yet they are often the subject of significant local controversy, particularly during operation. This contrasts sharply with the acceptance trajectories of other renewables and poses a significant barrier to their broader utilization. To explore the roots of this phenomenon, the present study focused on the significance of selected particular factors related to energy justice. Based on a questionnaire survey (<em>N</em> = 446) in four rural communities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia where AD plants are located, we evaluated how procedural, distributive, and recognition justice shape residents' perceptions of the existence of anaerobic digestion plants in Central Europe conditions. The results of ordinal logistic regression show that procedural justice is the most critical factor for positive perception. Specifically, the perceived opportunity for residents to participate in planning and the operator's responsiveness to subsequent concerns were identified as the most significant predictors of acceptance. Our findings highlight that the continuous improvement of the plant operator's relations with other local groups (municipality, residents, and local business entities) is not an option but a fundamental prerequisite for achieving energy justice in biogas utilization and the integration of AD plants as vital renewable energy sources.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104210"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144572080","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}
Wei Ye , Thida Chaiyapa , Hamad Hasul Khan , Yuting Li
{"title":"Steering the electric vehicle future: Asymmetric power dynamics, system logics, and tipping mechanisms in mobility transitions","authors":"Wei Ye , Thida Chaiyapa , Hamad Hasul Khan , Yuting Li","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104214","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104214","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article investigates global transition from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles (EVs), a transformation reshaping mobility systems worldwide. Despite the growing momentum of EV adoption, existing transition theories understate the role of power asymmetries, structural constraints, and cross-system interactions in shaping transition pathways. To address these gaps, we develop a novel conceptual framework that integrates the Technological Innovation Systems (TIS) and Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) approaches. Central to this framework are the concepts of system logics—the material and institutional conditions that shape regime permeability—and agency at sites of interaction, which captures stakeholder influence across systems. We conceptualize socio-technical change as a rotating spiral that progresses through dynamic feedback loops and tipping mechanisms, including political, technological, and behavioral shifts.</div><div>Empirically, we apply this framework to a comparative analysis of EV adoption in the United States, Germany, China, and Thailand. Rather than tracing uniform stages in each case, we show how distinct national contexts exemplify different phases of the global transition: from niche innovation and contested reconfiguration to state-led penetration and passive infiltration. Our findings reveal that transition trajectories are shaped by country-specific configurations of industrial maturity, policy coherence, cultural norms, and external pressures. The study offers two core contributions: a more power-sensitive and multi-system view of transition dynamics, and a typology of regime transformation pathways—active penetration and passive infiltration—that capture the diverse ways EVs challenge and reconfigure incumbent mobility systems. These insights advance transition theories and inform policymaking in both industrialized and emerging economies facing the imperatives of decarbonization and technological change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104214"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144572081","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}
{"title":"Powering fairness in climate adaptation capabilities: Evaluating the influence of air conditioning rebates in a hot climate","authors":"Kester Wade , Destenie Nock , Xue Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104204","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104204","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Assisting households with maintaining adequate energy supply is one method for improving overall quality of life. Households experiencing energy insecurity may be unable to afford to use energy for necessary services at home (e.g., unable to purchase air conditioners). Energy efficiency (EE) can reduce energy costs for low-income households–requiring less energy for essential activities. While existing research has identified the groups that are less likely to participate in energy efficiency programs, there is limited research on how participation impacts energy insecurity among vulnerable households when they participate.</div><div>Using over 138,000 households in Tallahassee, Florida we study participants in a neighborhood program that targeted underserved communities. We conduct quasi-experimental difference-in-difference comparisons for seasonal energy consumption, energy bills, and energy burden during the cooling season in response to air conditioning (AC) appliance purchases. We compare impacts for households in the program (REACH) and higher income non-REACH qualified households.</div><div>We find that REACH homes, on average, save approximately 300kWh-eq on energy or $25 seasonally after purchasing an AC unit. While AC rebates reduce seasonal energy burden by 0.6 % in non-REACH homes, there is no statistically significant change in seasonal energy burden for REACH homes. The difference in energy reduction between REACH and non-REACH qualified homes could be due to increases in AC use among REACH homes after rebates. Further work could explore this trend of potential increases in efficient appliance use among low-income homes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104204"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144556623","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}
Solomon Evro, Emovigho Neil Omonigho, Darrell Mayon, Anthony Ekpikie, Moones Alamooti, Olusegun S. Tomomewo
{"title":"Green recovery or fossil lock-in? Assessing sustainability and energy transition pathways in major economies","authors":"Solomon Evro, Emovigho Neil Omonigho, Darrell Mayon, Anthony Ekpikie, Moones Alamooti, Olusegun S. Tomomewo","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104205","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104205","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study analyzes the degree to which green recovery policies have succeeded in triggering energy transitions among the world's largest economies after the COVID-19 crisis. The crisis provided a short-term policy window through which fiscal stimulus could be integrated with decarbonization objectives, yet policies ranged from ambition, implementation, to impact. Through a formal multi-method framework of Investment Distribution Analysis (IDA), Emission Impact Assessment via the Kaya Identity, and Energy Transition Rate (ETR) modeling, this research evaluates the extent to which green energy transitions were enabled by post-pandemic recovery programs. Findings demonstrate substantial disparity between green recovery rhetoric and budgetary action. In India and Brazil, over 67 % of recovery expenditure was aimed at short-term economic stabilization, reducing financing levels for renewable energy development (RED) and green jobs and sustainability (GJS) to negligible levels. The UK, France, and Canada are no exception, as RED and GJS fell below 10 % of total spending even after they had signed their climate commitments. China achieved efficiency improvements despite higher absolute emissions; between 2015 and 2023, its net CO₂ emissions rose slightly from 11.02 to 11.22 GtCO₂e, yet its Kaya Multiple declined significantly from 10.19 to 8.29—indicating reduced emissions intensity per unit of economic output and modest structural efficiency gains. Germany and France saw post-COVID rebounds in emissions. Energy transition rates were wildly divergent: Brazil and China saw 50 % and 100 % increases in renewable-to-fossil energy ratios, while Canada and the UK saw stagnation or decrease. These long-term bottlenecks consist of underinvestment in grid modernization, policy incoherence, and inadequate just transition frameworks. The report concludes that green recovery requires more than finance—more institutional alignment, integration of equity, and long-term regulatory commitment to deliver transformative change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104205"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144549088","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}
A.C. Belcher , M.H.W. Workman , A. Jefferson , A. Ostrovnaya
{"title":"Aviation sector decarbonisation as a case of deep uncertainty: The need for an integrative, exploratory, and interdisciplinary approach","authors":"A.C. Belcher , M.H.W. Workman , A. Jefferson , A. Ostrovnaya","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104158","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104158","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global demand for aviation is expected to double by 2050. This is set against the need to cut aviation CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from 1 GtCO<sub>2</sub> pa today to net zero over the same period. Using the UK aviation market as a proxy for the global market, we apply a Robust Decision Making (RDM) to develop integrative insights within a single analytical paradigm than discrete orthodox decision support analysis.</div><div>This approach is justified based on a critical examination of the sector characteristics and the divergent short-term motivations of aviation actors as a case of deep uncertainty. RDM explicitly embraces deep uncertainty across a number of metrics which allows multiple values and diversity among stakeholders and viewpoints, and in which modelling can exist in an iterative exchange with policy development rather than separate from it. This approach has particularly highlighted the critical significance of asset stranding, the oligopolistic structure in aerospace manufacturers and fuel suppliers, alongside the monopsonies in airlines, as current barriers to progress within a single integrative analytical paradigm.</div><div>This contribution highlights the need for the application of exploratory and interdisciplinary approaches to aviation decarbonisation transitions analysis to better inform aviation sector net zero strategies. It can improve the interdisciplinarity of analysis across technology, policy, and finance, and explore the extent of uncertainty so that robust strategies can be designed as well as generate insight into systematic upstream requirements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104158"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144535092","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}
{"title":"Beyond numbers: unpacking the lived Experiences, cold homes, and complex realities of energy poverty in rural Northern China","authors":"Yujia Ji, Kirsten E.H. Jenkins","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Energy poverty significantly impacts individual and community well-being. It is critical to understand the factors influencing its emergence as well as the interactions between them to inform effective policy interventions. While research in China has identified factors using quantitative methods, little research has explored them qualitatively. This research explores the emergence of energy poverty through a lived experience approach. Utilizing interviews, observations, and thematic analysis it asks, how do intersecting cultural and social, economic, material, regulatory and geographical factors contribute to the development of energy poverty in rural Northern China? Five key findings are provided. First, cultural and social factors play a significant role in either alleviating or exacerbating energy poverty, depending on the family dynamics of energy-poor households and their social relations. Second, income and its sources are crucial economic contributors to energy poverty. Third, unique features of Chinese traditional rural houses lead to lower indoor temperatures, partial heating, and limitations in improving domestic energy infrastructure. Fourth, modern energy services (especially heating) are often too expensive for households with only one older individual. Fifth, local energy infrastructure delays can push households into energy poverty during the transition due to energy service vacuums and the extra costs associated with temporary resource expenditure. These findings contribute to existing literature by expanding knowledge and informing policy-making efforts to address energy poverty, while presenting empirical material focused on both a neglected geographical context, and a neglected, qualitative perspective. We also contribute to understandings of how energy poverty drivers interact to create distinctive outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104191"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144549087","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}