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“Then electricity theft would end, nobody loves stealing”: Community-based solutions for improving electricity access in informal settlements in Kampala, Uganda “这样偷电就会结束，没有人喜欢偷电”：乌干达坎帕拉非正式定居点改善电力供应的社区解决方案

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104143

Jessica Kersey , Civian Kiki Massa , Judith Mbabazi , Paul Kyoma Asiimwe , Lydia Letaru , Michael Jurua , Bulenza Sirezi , June Lukuyu , Elena van Hove , Peter Mwesiga , Jay Taneja , Nathan G. Johnson , Paul Isolo Mukwaya , Daniel M. Kammen , Laura H. Kwong

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Renewable energy communities assembling energy governance 可再生能源社区聚集能源治理

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104085

Costanza Concetti

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Understanding policy windows for solar energy lifecycle extension: Policymaker perspectives in developing Asia 理解太阳能生命周期延长的政策窗口：亚洲发展中国家决策者的视角

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104130

Sung-Yeon Kweon , Yoon-Hee Ha , Saemi Chang , Yeowon Kim , Rofat Math

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From innovation to integration: institutional design challenges for emerging energy storage technologies in the Netherlands 从创新到整合：荷兰新兴储能技术的制度设计挑战

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104141

Anieke Kranenburg, Martijn Groenleer

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Revisiting the social licence to operate in the energy transition: An intersectional agenda for research and practice 重新审视能源转型中的社会许可：研究与实践的交叉议程

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104139

Conchúr Ó Maonaigh , Louise Michelle Fitzgerald , Laurie Reilly

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Low carbon heating transitions and Actor Network Theory: Entanglements with the fireside 低碳加热转换和行动者网络理论：与炉边的纠缠

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104140

Aimee Ambrose , Kathy Davies , Lindsey McCarthy , Becky Shaw , Sally Shahzad

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A perspective on energy citizenship and transitions in Europe 欧洲能源公民身份与转型的视角

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104144

Ted Limbeek , BinBin J. Pearce , Udo Pesch

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Mineral extraction on Indigenous land: employing a relational approach to navigate the convergence of Indigenous and other ontologies and practices 土著土地上的矿物开采：采用一种关系方法来引导土著和其他本体论和实践的融合

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104097

Elke Kellner

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Reconsidering the gender-energy nexus: A novel framework for understanding how and why electricity access influences gender relations 重新考虑性别能量关系：一个理解电力获取如何以及为什么影响性别关系的新框架

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104109

Victoria Kasprowicz , David Ockwell , Elizabeth Mills , Rob Byrne

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Taking turns to cook: Everyday temporalities of electricity use in Witsand, Cape Town (South Africa) 轮流做饭：南非开普敦威特桑的日常用电量

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104135

Romeo Dipura

{"title":"Taking turns to cook: Everyday temporalities of electricity use in Witsand, Cape Town (South Africa)","authors":"Romeo Dipura","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the temporalities of electricity practices to understand the social dynamics of electricity use and demand in Witsand, a low-income neighbourhood in Cape Town. Despite residents of Cape Town's informal settlements accessing electricity through formal and informal means, the reliability of electricity access is undermined by pervasive demand-side electricity blackouts. While demand-side electricity blackouts are linked to the social and temporal dynamics of electricity use, debates on electricity provision in Cape Town's informal settlements have largely focused on the supply-side dynamics of grid extension and off-grid solutions. To understand the temporal dynamics of electricity use, I focus on cyclical and episodic rhythms of electricity practices and the challenges emerging from rhythm synchronicity. The paper draws on an ethnographic study in Witsand, which involved interviews with residents and community leaders and participant and non-participant observations. Findings reveal variations in the rhythms of electricity practices between formal, informal and backyard houses within Witsand. I argue that the rhythms of electricity practices in Witsand are spatially contingent and shaped by specific place-based dynamics, namely, multihousehold living arrangements, improvised materiality of makeshift housing and the operation of home-based industries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 104135"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144071462","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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