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Assessing the digital divide in the energy transition: Surveying the social factors influencing home energy management systems in Austria

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103941

Philipp Thunshirn , Frederike Ettwein , Karl-Michael Höferl

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The politics of renewable energy transition in Ghana: Issues, obstacles and prospects

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103939

George Tettey , Emefa Aku Ansah , William Asante

{"title":"The politics of renewable energy transition in Ghana: Issues, obstacles and prospects","authors":"George Tettey , Emefa Aku Ansah , William Asante","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103939","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103939","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global issues such as climate change and its associated negative impacts have reinforced the quest for more renewable energy sources. In line with this, world leaders in 2015 initiated a new direction for the world through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) specifically calls for among other things, substantial increase in the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix. Against this backdrop, the Government of Ghana set a 10 % renewable energy generation target to be attained in 2020. However, this became a myth rather than a reality. Thus the Government of Ghana has extended its renewable energy target of 10 % to the year 2030. Using a qualitative case study approach, this study sought to unpack the circumstances leading to government's inability to meet the 10 % target, and what lessons could be drawn for meeting the new set target. Adopting Kingdon's Multiple Streams as a framework for analysis, the study found that although appropriate windows of opportunity were opened for coupling the streams of problem, policy and politics, policy entrepreneurs were reluctant to perform their coupling role. This was due to a number of factors including, but not limited to, the fact that Ghana has excess capacity and did not need more energy; the controversies surrounding the definition of hydro-energy; and unenthusiastic public opinion. The study encourages a more inclusive and participatory approach to energize stakeholders' efforts in similar future ventures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103939"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143141833","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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Corrigendum to “making space for environmental justice in renewable energy planning” [energy research & social science volume 118 (2024) 103806]

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103933

Leire Urkidi Azkarraga, Mikel Gurrutxaga

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Accelerating transitions? Planning for decarbonisation in local and regional energy systems

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103875

Helen Poulter , Jess Britton , Imogen Rattle , Ronan Bolton , Jan Webb , Peter Taylor

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Repurposing the grid: Territorialized assets and reconfiguring ties in gas production networks in Denmark

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103925

Oliver Bugge Hunt

{"title":"Repurposing the grid: Territorialized assets and reconfiguring ties in gas production networks in Denmark","authors":"Oliver Bugge Hunt","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103925","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103925","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The repurposing of gas infrastructure is receiving growing scholarly and policy attention. Research institutes and EU officials argue that through modifications, natural gas infrastructure in Europe can be repurposed to carry green gases (biomethane and green hydrogen). Existing research on the political economy of energy transitions has largely focused on how actors mobilize a discourse of low-carbon gas to delay transitions. However, in Denmark, gas distribution companies are in the process of decoupling their assets from offshore gas extraction in the North Sea and integrating assets with an emerging biomethane production network. Utilizing a global production network approach, the paper explores the political and economic dynamics shaping the repurposing of gas infrastructure in this context. Based on participant observation, document analysis, and interviews with state officials and high-ranking gas grid company executives, the paper shows how this strategic decoupling and recoupling is underpinned on the one hand by state strategies to decarbonize energy provision and on the other by firms' strategies to enhance value and avoid asset devaluation. The paper argues that the existing literature's focus on fossil fuel incumbents does not sufficiently capture the roles of other incumbent actors in shaping transition pathways and that a more granular view is needed to understand change in the natural gas sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103925"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142075","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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A Trojan horse for climate policy: Assessing carbon lock-ins through the Carbon Capture and Storage-Hydrogen-Nexus in Europe

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103881

Lena Faber, Henner Busch, Lina Lefstad

{"title":"A Trojan horse for climate policy: Assessing carbon lock-ins through the Carbon Capture and Storage-Hydrogen-Nexus in Europe","authors":"Lena Faber, Henner Busch, Lina Lefstad","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103881","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103881","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global energy landscape is entrenched in fossil fuels, shaping modern life profoundly. Germany, a prominent example, grapples with transitioning from its fossil-fuelled infrastructure despite governmental support for decarbonization. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen appear as crucial tools in this transition. A recent partnership between Germany and Norway seeks to leverage Norway's CCS and hydrogen expertise to aid Germany's decarbonization efforts. However, CCS faces criticism for potential mitigation deterrence and carbon lock-ins, perpetuating fossil fuel reliance. This study critically analyses the Norwegian-German CCS-Hydrogen-Nexus, focusing on potential carbon lock-ins. By examining specific projects, institutional frameworks, and industry involvement, we aim to elucidate the partnership's implications for carbon lock-ins. This critical case holds significance for Europe's largest economy and offers insights applicable to CCS technology globally. We find that the current setup perpetuates existing carbon lock-ins both in Germany and Norway. Central problems are the interchangeability of blue and green hydrogen, asset specificity of pipeline and pumping infrastructure and the central role which actors from the fossil fuel industry play in the rollout of the CCS-Hydrogen-Nexus. Our concern is that this approach might entrench the energy system in a socially unjust state. EU policy on blue hydrogen emerged as a factor that helps to avoid carbon lock-ins.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103881"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142169","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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Systemic barriers and pathways of Black energy researchers in the United States: Perspectives from African American, African, and Caribbean scholars

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103892

Yasuyuki Motoyama , Dira Melissa Delpech , Bryan Patterson , J. Chris Ford

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Public participation in the development of electricity grid infrastructure: Early engagements and community forums

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103878

Evan Boyle , Alexandra Revez , Grainne Duffy , Ailbhe Farrell , Aoife Deane , Brian Ó Gallachóir , Julia M. Wittmayer

{"title":"Public participation in the development of electricity grid infrastructure: Early engagements and community forums","authors":"Evan Boyle , Alexandra Revez , Grainne Duffy , Ailbhe Farrell , Aoife Deane , Brian Ó Gallachóir , Julia M. Wittmayer","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103878","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103878","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Plans are in place across Europe to update and develop energy infrastructure to decarbonise the system in the years ahead. Alongside this, calls have emerged for more participatory approaches to new energy infrastructural projects involving a wider range of stakeholders, including those at the local community level. This paper investigates the deployment of a public engagement strategy by the Irish Transmission System Operator (TSO) concerning electricity grid infrastructure developments, whereby a community forum is established. The central research question within this paper is as follows: How and to what extent do participatory practices open spaces of influence for community actors to partake in decision-making regarding electricity grid developments? We investigate a grid development project to highlight the central importance of early engagement with citizens and communities in the delivery of infrastructure projects and provide an outline of the innovative creation of the community forum as a conduit to wider community participation. Within this we highlight points of influence in decision making processes, and participant perspectives on their influence and participation. Reflections are included from engagement practitioners in relation to the implementation of the TSOs engagement strategy, to provide recommendations in relation to engagement with infrastructure and a comparison to the participant input. This empirical case provides insights for both academia and practitioners concerned with the development of electricity grid infrastructure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103878"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143141332","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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Palm trees, energy security and green hydrogen futures: Tourists' views on Mallorca's low carbon transition

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103923

Noreen Brennan, Thomas M. van Rensburg

{"title":"Palm trees, energy security and green hydrogen futures: Tourists' views on Mallorca's low carbon transition","authors":"Noreen Brennan, Thomas M. van Rensburg","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103923","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103923","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The development of green hydrogen can provide a welcome boost in energy security, particularly for island nations that may be reliant on energy imports or intermittent renewables as part of their energy transition. However, the expansion of a green hydrogen economy may have social, environmental and economic impacts on tourism-reliant islands, which may not be accounted for using typical market assessments. In this study, focus groups and an online choice experiment survey are conducted with recent international tourists to Mallorca, Spain, to elicit preferences for green hydrogen infrastructure, including the visual and biodiversity impacts, potential for export, and the value for the provision of additional local and tourism benefits. The results indicate generally positive attitudes to the development of green hydrogen in Mallorca, however respondents indicate significant disutility associated with high visual impact of green hydrogen infrastructure, with the exception of respondents that have previous experience with hydrogen transport. In general, respondents favour policies that do not negatively impact biodiversity, value restrictions on exports to enhance energy security on the island and are willing to pay to support green hydrogen development in Mallorca which provides benefits to tourism and local residents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103923"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143141813","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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How to? Co-productionist relational engagement in European Union energy projects

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103911

Vera M.E. Kools, Johanna I. Höffken

{"title":"How to? Co-productionist relational engagement in European Union energy projects","authors":"Vera M.E. Kools, Johanna I. Höffken","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103911","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103911","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Public engagement is key in sustainable energy transitions. Engagement with energy often takes place in European Union energy projects, which is repeatedly criticized for not living to its potential to grapple with social issues. Work on co-productionist relational engagement by Science and Technology Studies (STS) can help to overcome this critique with a more reflexive perspective. In this paper we explore how relational engagement can be brought into practice in the contexts of EU energy projects. We underline the need to consider contexts of engagement when aiming to operationalise relational engagement. We make a novel connection between STS engagement literature and project management literature, and combine this with empirical insights from EU H2020 energy projects. We identify three components for enacting relational engagement in EU energy projects. First, <em>practicing</em>, entails reflecting and responding upon the way engagement evolves. Second, <em>enabling</em>, means that projects should enable relational reflections and responses with flexibility for engagement. Third, engagement in the flexible spaces needs to be <em>steered</em> through indicators and engagement practitioners' skills. This shows that relational reflections and responses are bounded by the EU energy project contexts through levels of flexibility, indicators and skills. Nevertheless, we see opportunities to work with and within the boundaries to bring relational engagement into practice. We emphasize that rather than understanding relational engagement in practice as an all-or-nothing issue, opportunities for practicing relational engagement can be embraced to foster relational engagement that reflexively opens up more diversified engagement to addresses societal challenges for inclusive energy transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103911"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142014","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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