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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 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

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

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.

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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 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103923

Noreen Brennan, Thomas M. van Rensburg

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.

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How to? Co-productionist relational engagement in European Union energy projects

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103911

Vera M.E. Kools, Johanna I. Höffken

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, practicing, entails reflecting and responding upon the way engagement evolves. Second, enabling, means that projects should enable relational reflections and responses with flexibility for engagement. Third, engagement in the flexible spaces needs to be steered 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.

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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 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103873

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

Decommissioning offshore wind farms presents significant challenges as the sector approaches the final phase of its operational lifecycle. This research examines end-of-life challenges through the perspectives of a diverse range of stakeholders, including industry, government, research, and civil society. While the study focuses on Belgian stakeholders, the challenges and solutions are expected to be relevant to similar cases. Semi-structured interviews identified 67 challenges across five end-of-life phases: planning, dismantling, transport and logistics, waste management, and monitoring site recovery. These challenges span technical, economic, environmental, social, and policy dimensions. Among them, 27 newly recognized challenges were identified. Key issues, such as composite recycling, removal legislation, port suitability, artificial reef effects, and uncertainty surrounding dismantling approaches, emerged as central concerns. These concerns were highlighted by nearly all stakeholder groups. This study addresses gaps in existing knowledge by providing comprehensive stakeholder mapping for the end-of-life phase of offshore wind farms. It incorporates stakeholder perspectives into the identification and evaluation of challenges. To validate findings, the study includes a qualitative analysis that separately examines expert stakeholders. The findings offer a detailed understanding of major concerns in offshore wind decommissioning. Recommendations include ensuring transparent grid connections, developing improved removal strategies, and adopting a more coordinated approach to transport and logistics. Waste management recommendations focus on improving blade design and addressing policy and economic issues for existing blades. The study underscores the importance of stakeholder engagement. It highlights the need for systematic involvement in end-of-life research, offering valuable insights for sustainable decommissioning practices.

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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 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

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

Governance and decision-making that uphold the rights, interests, knowledges, and values of Indigenous peoples and land-connected communities are increasingly recognised as critical components of a just energy transition. Despite the unprecedented inclusion of Indigenous peoples in resource governance, it is unclear how community consultation and consent can effectively support Indigenous-centred decision-making. In this paper, we provide an integrative and case review of community experiences with consultation and consent across the Arctic and sub-Arctic region which along with other ‘resource geographies’ are increasingly affected by transition minerals mining and renewable energy infrastructure. Key themes identified in the review include: (1) limitations of state- and company-led community consultation and consent; (2) practices of Indigenous-centred (Indigenous-led, Indigenous-benefiting and Indigenous-informed) decision-making; and (3) barriers to Indigenous-centred decision-making. Focusing on the circumpolar north, this paper contributes to broadening the discussion on just energy transitions for Indigenous peoples. Implications for scholarship and practice are discussed, reflecting on community consultation and consent in the current rush to supply minerals and infrastructure for the global energy transition.

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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 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103942

Sanghamitra Chakravarty , Hans de Bruijn , Mar Pérez-Fortes

Sustainability transition to a climate neutral economy requires the rapid development, testing and scaling of emerging technologies currently in their infancy. Carbon dioxide electrolysis is one such promising emerging technology to produce fossil-free fuels and chemicals for a sustainable chemical industry. This paper investigates enablers and barriers shaping this technology within a European context by combining a technological innovation system (TIS) lens with political economy perspectives. Evidence from over forty semi-structured interviews, policy documents, and an expert consultation workshop reveals a fast-emerging TIS enabled by R&D, legitimisation and advocacy of carbon capture and utilisation as an emission reduction pathway, and complementary technological developments. However, factors such as availability of renewable electricity and carbon dioxide, and a policy bias towards mature technologies to meet urgent emission reduction targets are barriers to its future development. The TIS in this early formative phase, is in a state of flux and vulnerable to shifts in actor strategies, which can result in discontinuities in the learning process. We identify a need for technology-specific policies to support iterative upscaling through long-term projects, encourage niche market formation and strategically manage knowledge. In contrast to the current fit and conform narrative dominated by cost comparison with fossil fuels, we propose a need to empower carbon dioxide electrolysis with a stronger stretch and transform framing by imagining its role in a carbon neutral economy. Our methodology complements existing techno-economic assessments by bringing forth a rich narrative of underlying innovation processes and offers important policy insights for governing emerging technology development.

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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 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

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

Survey data helps understand user energy behaviour and inform policies supporting the transition to a renewable, user-centric electricity grid. To explore user responses to dynamic, hypothetical energy scenarios – such as time-varying electricity tariffs or fluctuations in renewable energy availability – surveys often rely on standardised fixed-choice questions. However, these methods frequently oversimplify the complexity, diversity, and temporal dynamics of user behaviour, resulting in generalised and incomplete insights for interventions.

To address these challenges, we introduce a model-driven adaptive survey. By integrating a conventional survey design with a feedback loop between participant responses and an energy demand model, this method allows end-users to iteratively evaluate and adjust their choices through a set of indicator scores. We implemented this approach in a survey conducted across Germany and German-speaking Switzerland (N=803), investigating user willingness to time-shift dishwashing usage under four scenarios: time-of-use tariffs, congestion risks, renewable energy availability, and their combinations.

Our findings highlight the value of integrating energy demand models into survey designs to assist respondents in making complex energy-related decisions in a tailored manner. Respondents exhibited significant variability in their load-shifting practices, with over 56% reporting a likelihood of time-shifting energy use even without financial incentives. Participants using the feedback mechanism achieved notable improvements: 19% reduction in energy costs, 80% reduction in peak energy demand, and 9% increase in renewable energy usage on average for running the dishwasher. Beyond its utility for data collection, we discuss how this approach could extend to real-world applications, enabling users to navigate decision-making in increasingly dynamic energy systems.

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

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103950

Jayaram Singh Samal

Minerals are one of the natural resources around which conflicts are taking place all over the world. Mining witnessed conflict over different claims and ways of using these resources. This conflicting claim on mineral resources is not only challenging the present development model. It is also creating conditions for the emergence of anti-mining movements. Based on an extensive empirical survey, the study examines the complex process of the emergence of the politics of resistance and protest in various mining projects in Odisha, India. The study focuses on resistance to two large-scale mining projects. Both cases, one located in Lanjigarh, Kalahandi district, and the other in Kalinganagar, Jajpur district, are in Odisha. The contrasting outcomes of both cases raise questions about the factors that determine the success and failures of these struggles. It analyzes the development of a different approach to the politics of resistance in Lanjigarh compared to Kalinganagar. It also explores the intricate connection between mineral extraction, the autonomy of local socio-cultural processes, and how they are linked to global capital.

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

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103932

Elena Giarda , Demetrio Panarello

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between energy efficiency of residential buildings and house market prices in Italy. We employ novel, and almost unexploited, data on Energy Performance Certificates of three Italian regions (Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Piedmont) and merge them with house prices as well as socio-economic and climate variables at various aggregation levels. The relationship is estimated by means of hedonic regression models, quantile regressions and fixed effects panel data models. Our results reveal the existence of an energy-efficiency price premium in the three regions, with significant differences among them. Heterogeneity is also detected along the price distribution. Relevant variables showing a positive association with price are more recent construction years, higher mobility in the housing market and higher income within municipalities, while heat waves are associated with lower prices.

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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 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103938

Kim Kaze, Nazmiye Balta-Ozkan, Elisabeth Shrimpton

Despite extensive investments and deregulation efforts, the issue of carbon lock-in persists in the Nigerian context and across much of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Recognising the value of citizen involvement in shaping energy transformation, this research advocates for the adoption of community renewable energy (CRE) in Nigeria. Drawing inspiration from paradigmatic CRE models in Germany and Denmark, the study explores the evolving landscape of low-carbon energy transitions in developing economies through the Nigerian case. Currently, Nigeria’s low-carbon transition remains constrained by inadequate policies and top-down energy strategies, motivating the need for a more inclusive and decentralised approach. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a policy framework grounded in multi-level governance (MLG) theory. The conceptual framework delineates the roles and responsibilities of federal, state, and local governments, highlighting the scope for introducing renewable energy desk officers at the local level. Crucially, this research contributes to the limited body of CRE literature within Nigeria and similar sub-Saharan African contexts. The output provides concrete recommendations for renewable energy policy development in SSA nations with diverse political landscapes, in addition to supporting the future research agenda on CRE. Accordingly, the proposition of community renewable multi-level governance (CRE-MLG) reflects the rationale that citizen-centric energy practices can strengthen sustainability pathways in challenging contexts such as Nigeria. In contributing towards the burgeoning literature on energy transitions, this study advocates for an integrated governance approach and the bottom-up adoption of CRE practices to help drive sustainable development.¹

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