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A finance scheme to help Germany's small private landlords sharply increase their buildings' energy performance: Tapping into the banking system

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103929

Ray Galvin , Steven März

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Does local ownership matter? A comparative analysis of fourteen wind energy projects in the Netherlands

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103891

Bas Brouwer , Rutger van Bergem , Sander Renes , Linda M. Kamp , Thomas Hoppe

{"title":"Does local ownership matter? A comparative analysis of fourteen wind energy projects in the Netherlands","authors":"Bas Brouwer , Rutger van Bergem , Sander Renes , Linda M. Kamp , Thomas Hoppe","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103891","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103891","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Onshore wind energy projects are traditionally developed by commercial project developers. However, the development of these projects is increasingly encountering problems due to poor social acceptance and legal objections. In addition to commercial project developers, renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops) also develop onshore wind energy projects. These non-commercial entities are driven by local, ecological and egalitarian values and often strive for local ownership. This influences the rules-in-use they apply when planning and developing projects. In this paper, fourteen cases of onshore wind energy project development in the Netherlands are analysed using Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework. The objectives are: (1) to investigate how the rules-in-use differ between fourteen selected onshore REScoop wind energy projects and onshore commercial wind energy projects in the Netherlands, (2) to investigate how the project duration and the number of submitted views and appeals differ between these two types of wind energy projects, and (3) to determine to what extent the observed differences in rules-in-use can explain the differences in project duration and the number of views and appeals submitted. The research design involves a stepwise approach, including qualitative within-case analysis, followed by quantitative cross-case statistical analysis. The results show that projects developed by REScoops differ on six out of seven rules, especially pay-off, position, and aggregation rules. For projects with a higher percentage of REScoop ownership, the total duration of project planning and development is shorter, there are fewer submitted views during the permit application process and fewer appeals to the Council of State.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103891"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Watered down justice: Experiences of the offshore wind transition in Northeast coastal communities in the United States

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103919

Tiffany Smythe , Emma Korein , Sara Swett , David Bidwell , Jeremy Firestone , Kelsey Leonard

{"title":"Watered down justice: Experiences of the offshore wind transition in Northeast coastal communities in the United States","authors":"Tiffany Smythe , Emma Korein , Sara Swett , David Bidwell , Jeremy Firestone , Kelsey Leonard","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103919","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103919","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Offshore wind is a growing part of coastal states' energy portfolios and is undergoing rapid expansion in the United States. A robust body of research examines this transition through the lens of energy justice, which we employed in an exploratory qualitative analysis of offshore wind in northeast United States coastal communities where the first projects are located. Our goal was to investigate community members' experiences of distributive, recognition, and procedural justice regarding offshore wind development. We selected five frontline coastal communities and conducted 37 interviews, seeking representation from local/state governments; port/working waterfront businesses; the fishing community, and community groups, with a focus on low-income and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) community members. Thematic analysis of interviews revealed six themes and associated sub-themes synthesizing participants' experiences. Analysis revealed that community members observed and experienced linkages between distributive, recognition and procedural forms of justice. Findings both illustrate these linkages and provide insights into the individual tenets. Participants experienced the government-led planning and permitting process itself as the problem. They believed that the primacy of local communities was inadequately recognized, and held complex and nuanced views of benefits and burdens. Further, participants observed that low-income and BIPOC community members are experiencing injustices. Results support multiple recommendations for research and practice, including an integrated approach to energy justice scholarship and practice that acknowledges the linkages between the three justice tenets. We also recommend process improvements and a commitment to engaging with and supporting low-income and BIPOC communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103919"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142186","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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Conflicting injustices in decolonization and indigenous land rights: The case of the Lake Turkana Wind Power project

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103912

Jacobo Ramirez , Eleonora Costantino , Christiane Durach , Jury Flickenschild , Han Chen Sun , Ikal Ang'elei , Paul Lekapana

{"title":"Conflicting injustices in decolonization and indigenous land rights: The case of the Lake Turkana Wind Power project","authors":"Jacobo Ramirez , Eleonora Costantino , Christiane Durach , Jury Flickenschild , Han Chen Sun , Ikal Ang'elei , Paul Lekapana","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103912","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103912","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the injustices faced by Indigenous peoples when they are not clearly recognized in green energy investments, taking the Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) project in Kenya as a case study. The Indigeneity of Lake Turkana's self-identified Indigenous communities is deeply rooted in their ancestral lands. However, Kenya's ambiguity in categorizing Indigenous peoples and its detachment from international frameworks such as ILO 169 contribute to the perpetuation of energy injustices. The LTWP consortium exploits this ambiguity to detach itself from claims of “illegal” land acquisition. Meanwhile, the affected communities face fragmentation, restricted mobility, and involuntary resettlement. This research, grounded in decoloniality and pluriversalism approach, highlights the dynamics of symbolic attachment and detachment that influence Indigenous energy justice and land rights. By recognizing multiple ways of knowing and being, it argues for a decolonial shift that respects Indigenous sovereignty and integrates their perspectives into sustainable development frameworks. This study underscores the necessity of respecting Indigenous rights as a pathway toward achieving true justice and sustainability in energy projects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103912"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Rethinking retrofit: Relational insights for the design of residential energy efficiency policy

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103863

Donal Brown , Lucie Middlemiss , Mark Davis , Ruth Bookbinder , Iain Cairns , Matthew Hannon , Giulia Mininni , Marie Claire Brisbois , Anne Owen , Stephen Hall

{"title":"Rethinking retrofit: Relational insights for the design of residential energy efficiency policy","authors":"Donal Brown , Lucie Middlemiss , Mark Davis , Ruth Bookbinder , Iain Cairns , Matthew Hannon , Giulia Mininni , Marie Claire Brisbois , Anne Owen , Stephen Hall","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103863","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103863","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ‘retrofit’ of energy efficiency, low carbon heating and renewable microgeneration measures in homes is a major focus for energy and climate policy. Yet despite policy interventions, few countries are achieving their residential decarbonisation targets. In this paper we argue that a core reason for this failure is the mainstream ‘rational actor’ framing of households, which guides energy efficiency policymaking. We introduce an alternative ‘relational’ framing to re-examine the assumptions surrounding the retrofit ‘customer journey’ and the accompanying policy framework. In doing so, the study draws on three United Kingdom (UK) case studies, exploring the customer journey of households self-funding renovations and retrofit, via (<em>n</em> = 30) semi-structured interviews. We argue that by paying attention to relational dynamics, we can better design policies that work with the grain of existing household practices and social relations. This includes: 1) Leveraging existing entry points such as when renovating or moving home 2) Aligning with how households currently seek advice and procure renovation services 3) Developing solutions which factor broader motivations than simply cost savings 4) Designing inclusive and long-term financing models and 5) Building trusted ongoing relationships between contractors and communities. Consequently, we argue a paradigm shift in retrofit policymaking towards a relational approach is now required.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103863"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Equity, diversity and inclusion promises, exclusive practices? How to move towards effective and just energy transitions

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103935

Sarah E. Sharma , Runa R. Das , Amy Janzwood , Neelakshi Joshi , Julie L. MacArthur , Georgia Savvidou

{"title":"Equity, diversity and inclusion promises, exclusive practices? How to move towards effective and just energy transitions","authors":"Sarah E. Sharma , Runa R. Das , Amy Janzwood , Neelakshi Joshi , Julie L. MacArthur , Georgia Savvidou","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103935","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103935","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Equitable, diverse and inclusive action in a climate emergency is not optional – it is an imperative. Despite the growing rhetoric for inclusive energy systems transformations, many such promises are often empty signifiers and lack substantive action. For energy transitions to be effective and sustainable, they must include, prioritize, and benefit diverse groups, encompassing marginalized communities, underrepresented stakeholders and those disproportionately burdened by current energy systems – a wider range of groups than at present. In this perspective, we argue why and how it is necessary to embed concrete practices that center equity, diversity and inclusion for meaningful energy systems transformation. As researchers and practitioners, we can influence and support the larger energy community to move from pledges to practice by supporting locally led energy systems transitions, by building participatory energy governance, addressing intersectional inequalities in energy systems and centering equity diversity and inclusion as metrics for successful energy systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103935"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Conflicted climate futures: Climate justice imaginaries as tools for policy evaluation in cities

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103886

Claudia V. Diezmartínez, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Anne G. Short Gianotti

{"title":"Conflicted climate futures: Climate justice imaginaries as tools for policy evaluation in cities","authors":"Claudia V. Diezmartínez, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Anne G. Short Gianotti","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103886","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103886","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cities are moving to implement just urban transitions, but we lack consensus on how policy evaluation practices can center justice and create accountability toward desired climate futures. Here, we introduce climate justice imaginaries as a novel tool to root policy evaluation in local understandings of the just city. We use an original mixed-methods research design that combines participant observation, interviews, and systematic content analysis to identify climate justice imaginaries held by city officials and community advocates with respect to the implementation of a Building Performance Standard in Boston, U.S. This methodological approach enabled us to directly identify and experience the emergence of climate justice imaginaries in real time during policy implementation, while allowing us to triangulate and confirm the imaginaries shared by different actors in retrospect. By offering new “possibilities of policy evaluation” that emerge from climate justice imaginaries in Boston, we showcase how visions of the just and unjust city can serve as governing devices to transform policy evaluation practices and advance more just climate futures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103886"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142195","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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Watt's in it for you? Unpacking the role of renewable energy cooperatives in the Netherlands in energizing consumer engagement

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103883

Rémy Rupp, Alexander Los, Jaap Rozema

{"title":"Watt's in it for you? Unpacking the role of renewable energy cooperatives in the Netherlands in energizing consumer engagement","authors":"Rémy Rupp, Alexander Los, Jaap Rozema","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103883","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103883","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the relationship between renewable energy cooperatives and consumer engagement in decentralized energy systems, focusing on how the structural components of the cooperatives shape members' attitudes and behaviors as both consumers and producers of renewable energy (“prosumers”). Using a mixed-methods approach, the study combines qualitative interviews with quantitative survey data from two Dutch renewable energy cooperatives, Blijstroom and Loenen Cooperative members. The findings highlight the critical roles of trust and awareness—two non-price-based socio-psychological mechanisms—in mediating the relationship between the cooperatives' structures and consumer engagement. While trust fosters interpersonal connections and a sense of ownership, awareness enhances members' understanding of renewable energy opportunities and challenges, with both mechanisms contributing to engagement in varying degrees depending on contextual differences between the cooperatives. Moreover, the results point out that renewable energy cooperatives, regardless of their structural characteristics, activate social norms, stimulate symbolic ownership, foster collective interests, and bridge cognitive gaps between energy generation and consumption. Together, these processes incentivize local stakeholders to actively engage with decentralized energy systems, demonstrating the multifaceted socializing roles of renewable energy cooperatives in fostering pro-environmental behaviors and accelerating the energy transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103883"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Beyond money: A social burden framework to enhance resilience valuation for tribal communities in the United States

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103934

Olga E. Hart , Amanda Wachtel , Katherine Jones , Tony Jimenez , Peter Gregory , David Tam

{"title":"Beyond money: A social burden framework to enhance resilience valuation for tribal communities in the United States","authors":"Olga E. Hart , Amanda Wachtel , Katherine Jones , Tony Jimenez , Peter Gregory , David Tam","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103934","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103934","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article reflects on the present challenges of making proactive investments in critical infrastructure resilience and proposes recommendations for better integrating non-financial benefits into investment and project financing decision-making. Quantitative methodologies are required to enable communities, utilities, and financing organizations to evaluate return on investment through a more complete, socio-economic lens that more fully captures the true returns of alternative resilience proposals. Although this need is universal, it is further exacerbated in historically disadvantaged, under-resourced, and disenfranchised communities which were excluded from large-scale federal-level infrastructure investments in the past, and in which today, the onus of securing financing for infrastructure resilience projects falls on community members. This need is illustrated, and a solution for it demonstrated, through a case study of a successful implementation of such a techno-socio-economic resilience investment valuation framework in a tribal context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103934"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Smallholder women rising: Intersectional dynamics of resistance to geothermal energy in Western Turkey

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Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103884

Hayriye Özen

{"title":"Smallholder women rising: Intersectional dynamics of resistance to geothermal energy in Western Turkey","authors":"Hayriye Özen","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103884","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103884","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the importance of social acceptance in the energy transition process becomes increasingly evident, extensive research has explored the factors shaping community support or opposition to wind and solar energy projects. This study addresses an understudied topic by focusing on a less examined form of renewable energy. It investigates how intersectional injustices and inequalities influence the emergence of resistance to geothermal energy projects. Using both document analysis and fieldwork, it examines the emergence of grassroots mobilizations against geothermal energy projects in small towns and villages across four neighboring provinces in Western Turkey. It employs an analytical framework that integrates insights from political ecology, feminist studies, and social movement studies. From this perspective, it considers the power relations and various axes of domination embedded in renewable energy policy and practices and shows that strong and sustained resistance against geothermal energy projects emerge where the negative impact of geothermal energy projects exacerbates preexisting intersectional inequalities related to gender and class identities. Ultimately, the study underscores the need to consider the diversity within local communities and the intersectional effects of power dynamics when developing policies and practices for renewable energy transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103884"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143141810","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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