欧洲的能源叙事：探索在线新闻与可再生能源生产之间的联系

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI:10.1016/j.erss.2025.104345

Roberto Vestrelli , Andrea Fronzetti Colladon , Claudia Fabiani , Anna Laura Pisello

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摘要

在本研究中，我们研究了七个高收入欧洲国家中不同能源相关主题（ert）的新闻媒体重要性与可再生能源发电水平之间的关系。在技术迅速进步和环境意识日益增强的时代，媒体在形成公众舆论和影响公众行动方面发挥着至关重要的作用。我们的分析通过分析2014年至2023年7年间发表的26万多篇文章，衡量了欧洲在线新闻中关键ert的语义重要性。为了确定媒体关注ert对可再生能源发电的潜在因果影响，我们采用工具变量（IV）方法来解决媒体报道中的潜在内生性。使用文本挖掘方法量化ert媒体在新闻中的重要性，我们发现不同ert媒体重要性的增加与随后几个月可再生能源发电量的增加有关。这种延迟效应表明存在一个最佳窗口，在这个窗口中，媒体的影响可以有效地推动可再生能源的采用。

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Energy narratives in Europe: Exploring the link between online news and renewable energy production

In this study we examine the relationship between news media importance of different energy-related themes (ERTs) and the level of electricity generation from renewable sources in seven high-income European countries. In an era of rapid technological progress and growing environmental awareness, the media plays a crucial role in shaping public opinion and influencing public action. Our analysis measures the semantic importance of key ERTs in European online news by examining over 260,000 articles published over seven years, from 2014 to 2023. To identify the potential causal effect of media attention to ERTs on renewable electricity generation, we adopt an instrumental variable (IV) approach that addresses potential endogeneity in media reporting. Using text mining methods to quantify ERTs media importance in the news, we find that increased media importance of different ERTs is associated with increased renewable electricity production in the subsequent months. This delayed effect suggests the existence of an optimal window in which media influence can effectively drive renewable energy adoption.

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Energy Research & Social Science ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

14.00

自引率

16.40%

发文量

441

审稿时长

55 days

期刊介绍： Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles examining the relationship between energy systems and society. ERSS covers a range of topics revolving around the intersection of energy technologies, fuels, and resources on one side and social processes and influences - including communities of energy users, people affected by energy production, social institutions, customs, traditions, behaviors, and policies - on the other. Put another way, ERSS investigates the social system surrounding energy technology and hardware. ERSS is relevant for energy practitioners, researchers interested in the social aspects of energy production or use, and policymakers. Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss how social and technical issues related to energy production and consumption interact. Energy production, distribution, and consumption all have both technical and human components, and the latter involves the human causes and consequences of energy-related activities and processes as well as social structures that shape how people interact with energy systems. Energy analysis, therefore, needs to look beyond the dimensions of technology and economics to include these social and human elements.