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Renewable energy discourses of fossil fuel companies: obstruction and delay of climate action 化石燃料公司的可再生能源言论:阻碍和拖延气候行动
IF 5.1 3区 工程技术
Energy, Sustainability and Society Pub Date : 2026-03-13 DOI: 10.1186/s13705-026-00565-z
Dipa Desai, Yutong Si, Diana Bozhilova, Sheila M. Puffer, Jennie C. Stephens
{"title":"Renewable energy discourses of fossil fuel companies: obstruction and delay of climate action","authors":"Dipa Desai,&nbsp;Yutong Si,&nbsp;Diana Bozhilova,&nbsp;Sheila M. Puffer,&nbsp;Jennie C. Stephens","doi":"10.1186/s13705-026-00565-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13705-026-00565-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>For decades, multinational fossil fuel companies have strategically promoted discourses to obstruct climate action. Initially, the fossil fuel industry publicized communications that denied the role of fossil fuels in climate destabilization. Recently, however, they have advanced nuanced messages to delay climate action and policy. As the climate crisis worsens and calls to phase out fossil fuels intensify, research into the industry has revealed pervasive “greenwashing” and a discrepancy between external messaging on renewable energy and internal operational positions. Corporate annual reports, which are public-facing communications, offer insights into how companies align their internal strategy with their external messaging. Based on a textual analysis of the annual reports of four of the largest fossil fuel companies (ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, and TotalEnergies), this research compares how companies have adapted their communication strategies about renewable energy between 2016 and 2022.</p><h3>Results</h3><p>The study reveals that each company focuses on different renewable energy technologies and highlights a variety of positive and negative messages about renewable energy. Since 2016, positive messaging about renewable energy has increased, including narratives on economic benefits, sustainable development, climate action, and strategic business benefits. Negative messaging, including mentions of variable energy intensity, potential business risks, and reductions in companies’ renewable energy businesses, constitutes a small yet consistent part of the communications. This combination of sentiments highlights the benefits of renewable energy while simultaneously undermining the positives with nuanced and negative messages about renewable energy. By promoting fossil fuels as a partner to renewable energy, corporate messages link renewable energy to fossil fuels, reinforcing discourses that slow down the energy transition and expand fossil fuel production with renewable energy development.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, the annual reports of fossil fuel companies consistently employed a communication strategy of mixed-sentiment messages that link renewable energy to fossil fuels, particularly fossil gas (i.e., commonly known as natural gas). In this way, companies created and employed doublespeak and delay tactics, obscuring the need to phase out fossil fuels to achieve global climate and sustainability goals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":539,"journal":{"name":"Energy, Sustainability and Society","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13705-026-00565-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147441362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Talking past each other: a review of the quantitative study of interlinkages between the sustainable development goals 各说各话:可持续发展目标之间相互联系的定量研究综述
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Energy, Sustainability and Society Pub Date : 2026-03-04 DOI: 10.1186/s13705-026-00572-0
Rega Sota, Sandra Venghaus
{"title":"Talking past each other: a review of the quantitative study of interlinkages between the sustainable development goals","authors":"Rega Sota,&nbsp;Sandra Venghaus","doi":"10.1186/s13705-026-00572-0","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13705-026-00572-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>The UN Agenda 2030 was approved unanimously by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 as the framework to guide humanity towards sustainable development. Assessing the interactions between the sustainable development goals (SDGs) has emerged as an important multidisciplinary research field, acknowledged both in official UN documentation and scholarly work. The earliest attempts at capturing SDG interlinkages began through qualitative frameworks in 2015 and continue unabated a decade later. Yet, the methodologies utilized for analyzing the SDG interactions have increased in conceptual diversity and are scattered across research domains.</p><h3>Main text</h3><p>In our article, we conducted a systematic review and detailed analysis of the quantitative methods used in the study of SDG interlinkages. Our findings indicate that the scientific community continues to explore the multifaceted interpretations of the 2030 Agenda. The implications of these diverse conceptualizations of SDG interlinkages are inconsistent terminology as well as multiple and incomparable operationalization efforts. A few recent frameworks break new paths towards consistent interpretations of interlinkages, but a research gap remains in operationalizing these enhanced methods.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The investigation of SDG interlinkages continues to occur through diverse qualitative and quantitative approaches and does not show signs of consolidation into more unified and widely applicable methods. We conclude that, rather than formulating new and increasingly sophisticated methodologies, a consistent approach in interlinkage research, driven by rigorous theoretical principles and causality, should be prioritized.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":539,"journal":{"name":"Energy, Sustainability and Society","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13705-026-00572-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147362903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Emergent lock-ins in sustainability transitions: the example of energy system decentralisation 可持续转型中的紧急锁定:能源系统分散化的例子
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Energy, Sustainability and Society Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-13 DOI: 10.1186/s13705-026-00574-y
D. Bauknecht, S. Bolwig, K. Kubeczko, S. Olbrich, H. Rohracher, A. J. Wieczorek
{"title":"Emergent lock-ins in sustainability transitions: the example of energy system decentralisation","authors":"D. Bauknecht,&nbsp;S. Bolwig,&nbsp;K. Kubeczko,&nbsp;S. Olbrich,&nbsp;H. Rohracher,&nbsp;A. J. Wieczorek","doi":"10.1186/s13705-026-00574-y","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13705-026-00574-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Energy systems are currently undergoing fundamental transformations, with several possible energy futures emerging, including various decentralised ones. However, transformations are characterised by uncertainty, and it is difficult to assess the sustainability of these different energy futures. There is a danger that premature choices could lead to lock-ins to sub-optimal pathways as seen from a broad sustainability perspective. This paper explores the role of potential lock-ins on the pathways towards emerging configurations of decentralised, carbon-neutral energy systems. Our analysis draws on four emerging ideal-type decentralisation configurations of ‘energy futures’ (individual system optimisation, individual autonomy, collective system optimisation, and collective autonomy) and the institutional, actor and technological preconditions required for them to become dominant forms of energy system organisation.</p><h3>Results</h3><p>We developed a forward-looking, ex-ante approach to identify emergent lock-ins that may be created along the transition pathways.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>These new lock-ins have implications for the sustainability of decentralised energy futures and how such sustainability should be assessed. Such an analysis can inform sustainable energy policies, helping to keep different options open and to avoid a premature lock-in to potentially sub-optimal socio-technical energy configurations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":539,"journal":{"name":"Energy, Sustainability and Society","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13705-026-00574-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147737489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The good, the bad and the one paving the way? An investigation on public risk perception of electric vehicles, fossil fuels, and e-fuels in Germany 好的,坏的还有铺平道路的那个?德国公众对电动汽车、化石燃料和电子燃料的风险认知调查
IF 5.1 3区 工程技术
Energy, Sustainability and Society Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-07 DOI: 10.1186/s13705-026-00571-1
Regina Gimpel, Katrin Arning
{"title":"The good, the bad and the one paving the way? An investigation on public risk perception of electric vehicles, fossil fuels, and e-fuels in Germany","authors":"Regina Gimpel,&nbsp;Katrin Arning","doi":"10.1186/s13705-026-00571-1","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13705-026-00571-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>The transition towards sustainable and emission-free driving technologies has focused on decarbonization strategies, with electric vehicles (EVs) as a long-term solution for replacing fossil fuels. As a complementary defossilized short-term solution, e-fuels emerge, particularly by serving as a bridging fuel alternative for existing combustion vehicles. Beyond the development of technical alternatives, the inclusion of social perceptions is necessary to achieve a successful mobility transformation. In this study, we analyze the differences in the risk perception relating to fossil fuels, EVs, and e-fuels among the German public, to investigate the role of affective and cognitive risk perception dimensions and to measure the impact of individual factors such as climate change awareness, institutional trust and innovativeness by using a representative quantitative questionnaire survey (<i>N</i> = 517).</p><h3>Results</h3><p>The results show significant differences across the risk perception relating to fossil fuels, electric vehicles, and e-fuels among German laypeople. Notably, all risk perception ratings were rather low or moderate, whereas EVs were perceived as the riskiest, while e-fuels were considered the least risky. Furthermore, higher climate change awareness was found to be related to a significantly increased fossil fuel risk perception, whereas higher institutional trust was associated with significantly decreased risk perceptions of alternative fuel vehicles, EVs and e-fuels. There was a positive association between risk perceptions of e-fuels and fossil fuels as well as between EVs and e-fuels. However, there was a negative relation between the risk perception of EVs and fossil fuels. In addition, the analysis of risk perception dimensions supports the two-dimensionality of the construct of risk perception, differentiating between emotional, affect-driven and more rational, cognitive risk perception.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>These findings underscore the importance of understanding public perceptions to facilitate the adoption of alternative fuels and driving technologies. Furthermore, it is advantageous to examine the specific factors that influence risk perception with respect to different technologies, as the results indicate differences between the observed drive types.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":539,"journal":{"name":"Energy, Sustainability and Society","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13705-026-00571-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147642663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Optimized production scheduling: a case study on food and steel industries 优化生产调度:以食品和钢铁行业为例
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Energy, Sustainability and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-27 Epub Date: 2026-03-19 DOI: 10.1186/s13705-026-00570-2
Vanessa Zawodnik, Jana Reiter, Andreas Gruber, Jasmin Pfleger, Hanno Elsnig, Thomas Kienberger
{"title":"Optimized production scheduling: a case study on food and steel industries","authors":"Vanessa Zawodnik,&nbsp;Jana Reiter,&nbsp;Andreas Gruber,&nbsp;Jasmin Pfleger,&nbsp;Hanno Elsnig,&nbsp;Thomas Kienberger","doi":"10.1186/s13705-026-00570-2","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13705-026-00570-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>The transition to a climate-neutral energy system requires industrial demand-side flexibility to complement renewable energy sources. Energy-intensive industries, such as iron and steel or food industries, play a pivotal role in this transformation by adopting demand-side management strategies. However, challenges remain in terms of aligning production scheduling without compromising operational constraints.</p><h3>Results</h3><p>This study presents two use cases that employ integer linear programming to optimize scheduling and investigate industrial flexibility, focusing on baking ovens in an industrial-scale bakery and a rolling mill in an electric steel plant. In the bakery, optimized schedules could reduce energy consumption during the nightshift (dayshift) by 30% (43%) and total runtime by 43% (55%). The rolling mill model achieves cost savings of up to 7% by aligning production schedules with volatile electricity prices over the medium term. There is a correlation observed between electricity price volatility and cost savings, with greater fluctuations yielding higher savings. The potential for load-shifting potential is demonstrated, with weekly shifts reaching nearly 40% of original energy consumption in favorable periods.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The results highlight the importance of tailored scheduling models in unlocking the potential for demand-side flexibility in industrial processes. While optimized bakery schedules improve energy efficiency, optimized rolling mill schedules demonstrate the feasibility of minimizing costs in the medium term through implicit demand response. The findings demonstrate the challenges through low automation levels, which can be overcome by combining optimization approaches with manual ‘what-if’ tools. Additionally, the need for more accurate energy price forecasts or intermediate electricity markets to bridge the gap between short-term spot market and the long-term futures markets is demonstrated. Overcoming computational constraints, ensuring user acceptance, and addressing market barriers are essential for scaling these strategies across industries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":539,"journal":{"name":"Energy, Sustainability and Society","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13705-026-00570-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147561742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Operators’ good community engagement practices in energy projects: examples from the UK deep geothermal sector 运营商在能源项目中的良好社区参与实践:来自英国深层地热行业的例子
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Energy, Sustainability and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-19 Epub Date: 2026-04-03 DOI: 10.1186/s13705-026-00566-y
Stacia Ryder, Melanie Rohse, Corinna Abesser
{"title":"Operators’ good community engagement practices in energy projects: examples from the UK deep geothermal sector","authors":"Stacia Ryder,&nbsp;Melanie Rohse,&nbsp;Corinna Abesser","doi":"10.1186/s13705-026-00566-y","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13705-026-00566-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>To be fair and inclusive, the transition to net zero must combine technological rollout with enabling communities to participate in energy decision making. Participation in the energy system can take many forms, and one area with great potential for improving fairness and inclusivity is the siting and implementation of renewable energy infrastructure. In the UK, one emerging renewable energy technology is geothermal energy. Our study aims to understand how the geothermal industry is approaching engagement in a country with limited geothermal development and research into engagement practices.</p><h3>Results</h3><p>Using qualitative interviews conducted at three geothermal energy sites in the UK, we reveal that the operators interviewed appear to share an ethos characterised by honesty, trust and relationship-building. This ethos underpins good community engagement practices, such as approachability, accessibility, flexibility and two-way communication. We also observe that the operators are proactive in their engagement activities and responsive to queries from local communities.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Our results provide an initial analysis of engagement practices in the UK geothermal industry and offer a model of good community engagement practice around geothermal energy. Guided by an ethics of care towards communities, operators can routinely go beyond the minimal engagement requirements of planning. This enables them to address communities’ concerns, act on them, and maintain a dialogue between different stakeholders. There is a need for policy instruments to support this approach and establish higher engagement requirements for energy projects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":539,"journal":{"name":"Energy, Sustainability and Society","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13705-026-00566-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147607185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Energy transition? Yes, please! The framing of the energy transition on Instagram 能源过渡?是的,请!Instagram上的能源转型框架
IF 5.1 3区 工程技术
Energy, Sustainability and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-14 DOI: 10.1186/s13705-026-00568-w
Hannah Schmid-Petri, Alessa Zehe
{"title":"Energy transition? Yes, please! The framing of the energy transition on Instagram","authors":"Hannah Schmid-Petri,&nbsp;Alessa Zehe","doi":"10.1186/s13705-026-00568-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13705-026-00568-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Various actors use Instagram to mobilize for their causes and communicate strategically in terms of their interests in the energy transition. Against this background, the aim of this study is to analyze how the energy transition is framed on Instagram, that is, which aspects are highlighted by specific actor groups. Furthermore, the researchers study the visual representations of the energy transition on Instagram, especially the text–image relationship.</p><h3>Methods</h3><p>To answer the research questions, a quantitative content analysis of 907 Instagram posts dealing with the energy transition posted between January 5 and January 16, 2022, was conducted.</p><h3>Results</h3><p>The results of this study show that communication about the energy transition on Instagram is carried out by a multitude of actor groups, especially economic actors. Communication about renewable energy on Instagram is generally optimistic and in support of the energy transition.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Overall, this study’s results indicate a lively interest in renewable energies on Instagram. This is also interesting regarding future communication activities, as the group of young users of Instagram can be encouraged to act by suggesting concrete action alternatives via which everyone can contribute to a fast and successful energy transition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":539,"journal":{"name":"Energy, Sustainability and Society","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13705-026-00568-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147338824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Social trust and firms’ environmental innovation: the role of green commitment and customer geographic distance 社会信任与企业环境创新:绿色承诺与客户地理距离的作用
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Energy, Sustainability and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-13 Epub Date: 2026-03-20 DOI: 10.1186/s13705-026-00569-9
Zhongju Liao, Xin Wei
{"title":"Social trust and firms’ environmental innovation: the role of green commitment and customer geographic distance","authors":"Zhongju Liao,&nbsp;Xin Wei","doi":"10.1186/s13705-026-00569-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13705-026-00569-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Informal institutions play an important role in corporate green transformation. Based on institutional theory, this study explored the impact of social trust on firms’ environmental innovation, as well as the mediating role of green commitments and the moderating role of customer geographic distance. Using a sample of 637 listed firms on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets in China from 2010 to 2021, we tested our hypothesis with a fixed-effects model.</p><h3>Results</h3><p>Social trust had a positive impact on firms’ environmental innovation, and green commitments played a mediating role in the relationship between social trust and firms’ environmental innovation. Customers’ geographic distance played a positive moderating role in the impact of social trust on firms’ environmental innovation.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>This study provides a new perspective for understanding the driving factors of firms’ environmental innovation and expands the application of informal institutional theory.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":539,"journal":{"name":"Energy, Sustainability and Society","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13705-026-00569-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147559378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Changing the rules of the game to encourage a collaborative arrangement: the case of the Dutch regional energy strategy 改变游戏规则以鼓励合作安排:以荷兰地区能源战略为例
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Energy, Sustainability and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-13 Epub Date: 2026-03-19 DOI: 10.1186/s13705-026-00567-x
Ivo Beenakker, Linda Carton, Hans van Kranenburg, Sietske Veenman, Martijn Gerritsen
{"title":"Changing the rules of the game to encourage a collaborative arrangement: the case of the Dutch regional energy strategy","authors":"Ivo Beenakker,&nbsp;Linda Carton,&nbsp;Hans van Kranenburg,&nbsp;Sietske Veenman,&nbsp;Martijn Gerritsen","doi":"10.1186/s13705-026-00567-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13705-026-00567-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>In the Netherlands, a Regional Energy Strategy (RES) has been introduced to foster collaboration in allocating spatial and energy resources to meet climate goals. However, the market-based rules guiding the RES are often perceived as ineffective, unfair, and inefficient, resulting in limited participation and poor information sharing. Planning currently follows a ‘first come, first served’ principle. National legislative changes are being prepared to improve the RES. Yet, it remains unclear how these might improve the process. This study aims to explore, through a serious game, whether changes in rules can enhance the RES and, if so, how this improvement is achieved. Three scenarios are evaluated: (1) a business-as-usual situation with existing market rules; (2) a government-led scenario in which provinces play a stronger role by prioritizing spatial needs; and (3) a governance-led scenario in which energy planners are allowed to manage the grid more flexibly, giving grid planning a central role in steering spatial energy decisions.</p><h3>Results</h3><p>The findings show that altering the rules of the game allowed more flexible grid management, based on a governance rationale and collaborative decision-making. The changes in rules produced spatial energy planning outcomes perceived as much more effective, efficient, and fair. These simulated rule changes created better conditions for spatial and energy planners to interact and make decisions that optimize both spatial and energy needs.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The simulation results suggest that the RES can achieve better outcomes when specific rules are adjusted, particularly in relation to energy network planning, with key actors taking the lead under a governance-oriented approach.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":539,"journal":{"name":"Energy, Sustainability and Society","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13705-026-00567-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147559375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Dynamic prospective life cycle assessment of transition paths for the Austrian steel industry 奥地利钢铁工业转型路径的动态前瞻性生命周期评估
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Energy, Sustainability and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-12 Epub Date: 2026-03-18 DOI: 10.1186/s13705-025-00561-9
Ladislaus Lang-Quantzendorff, Martin Beermann
{"title":"Dynamic prospective life cycle assessment of transition paths for the Austrian steel industry","authors":"Ladislaus Lang-Quantzendorff,&nbsp;Martin Beermann","doi":"10.1186/s13705-025-00561-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13705-025-00561-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>\u0000 <b>Background</b>\u0000 </h3><p>On its path to achieving climate neutrality targets, the emission-intensive crude steel industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation in terms of its technologies, energy carriers and reducing agents. Such a fundamentally changing system requires an environmental assessment from a forward-looking and time-differentiating perspective. This paper proposes a dynamic prospective life cycle assessment of the transition paths of the Austrian steel industry, including a detailed evaluation of the relevant energy supply options.</p><h3>\u0000 <b>Methods</b>\u0000 </h3><p>The assessment is based on <i>Prosperdyn</i>, a novel dynamic inventory calculator developed by the authors as an extension to the <i>Brightway</i> package. It combines dynamic foreground scenarios with prospective background data, taking into account the global transformation. Compared with other available tools in this field, pathway variations can be calculated in significantly less time, enabling them to be modified according to a normative emission target. The climate impacts of steel production are assessed alongside the emissions from the construction of the electricity and hydrogen infrastructure in a dynamic impact assessment. This includes additional radiative forcing as a complementary metric to the global warming potential.</p><h3>\u0000 <b>Results</b>\u0000 </h3><p><i>Prosperdyn</i> was employed to model the transition of crude steel production from blast furnaces to direct iron reduction using hydrogen by 2050. By iteratively modifying the transition path, the global warming potential will decline linearly from now until 2050, in line with the normative net-zero emission target. The final technology path meets the greenhouse gas budget and limits long-term radiative forcing.</p><h3>\u0000 <b>Conclusions</b>\u0000 </h3><p>The results demonstrate that achieving the targeted emission reductions requires a combination of ambitious measures. These include switching early to alternative reducing agents and increasing the share of secondary steel. In contrast, the source of renewable hydrogen has a minor impact on greenhouse gas emissions, but considerably affects the expected primary energy demand.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":539,"journal":{"name":"Energy, Sustainability and Society","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13705-025-00561-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147559214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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