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Getting stakeholders aboard for offshore wind decommissioning: A qualitative study on end-of-life challenges in Belgium

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103873

J. Vetters , G. Thomassen , S. Van Passel

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Enabling Indigenous-centred decision-making for a just energy transition? Lessons from community consultation and consent in the circumpolar Arctic

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103928

Julia Loginova , Mia Landauer , Juha Joona , Ranjan Datta , Tanja Joona

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Governing the development of CO2 electrolysis: How do we give an emerging technology a chance to contribute to a carbon neutral Europe?

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103942

Sanghamitra Chakravarty , Hans de Bruijn , Mar Pérez-Fortes

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Load-shifting for cost, carbon, and grid benefits: A model-driven adaptive survey with German and Swiss households

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103931

Matteo Barsanti , Jan Sören Schwarz , Faten Ghali , Selin Yilmaz , Sebastian Lehnhoff , Claudia R. Binder

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Mining-induced displacement and tribal resistance: The case of Odisha, India

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103950

Jayaram Singh Samal

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The energy efficiency price premium of residential buildings in three Italian regions

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103932

Elena Giarda , Demetrio Panarello

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Connecting power to people: Integrating community renewable energy and multi-level governance towards low-carbon energy transition in Nigeria

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103938

Kim Kaze, Nazmiye Balta-Ozkan, Elisabeth Shrimpton

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Burning coal in a cleaner way: Institutional fragmentation, power dynamics, and business influence in Indonesia's biomass co-firing imaginaries

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103949

Indri Dwi Apriliyanti , Diwangkara Bagus Nugraha

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A just energy transition is not just a transition: Framing energy justice for a quantitative assessment

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103900

Miguel Angel Rios-Ocampo , Jose Carlos Romero , Efraim Centeno , Sebastian Mora

{"title":"A just energy transition is not just a transition: Framing energy justice for a quantitative assessment","authors":"Miguel Angel Rios-Ocampo , Jose Carlos Romero , Efraim Centeno , Sebastian Mora","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103900","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103900","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Considering the justice dimension in the energy transition context has become a key requirement for tackling current ecological and social issues. Due to this endeavour's complexity, quantitative energy models are helpful tools to inform decision-makers about policies' environmental and social consequences. However, most energy models have not been designed with this dimension firmly embedded. Some crucial questions arise: What is a just energy transition? Can we operationalise it? What does a quantitative model require to study the impacts of the energy transition on vulnerable people? What has already been done in this regard? We explore the conceptual background of energy justice to contribute to answering these questions by analysing how four quantifiable dimensions — energy access, energy security, energy democracy and energy poverty — contribute to addressing justice-related challenges of energy systems. Based on it, we highlight some strategies to assess energy justice through the energy cycle for a just energy transition. Within this context, we propose operationalising a just energy transition in long-term energy planning models with energy poverty at its core for developed countries' considering 41 essential parameters. We conclude by examining which of these parameters are included in energy planning models to assess the impact of decisions on vulnerable populations. The findings show that most models struggle to encompass these four dimensions of energy justice comprehensively. We conclude suggesting some operational criteria to advance quantitative analyses of justice dimensions in future developments, noting issues of using models within energy justice debates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103900"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143179242","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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Rethinking the “Levelized Cost of Energy”: A critical review and evaluation of the concept

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103897

Jan Emblemsvåg

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