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“We have a lot to say about loadshedding”: Exploring citizen engagements and perceptions on power cuts in South Africa

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104019

Leon Tinashe Gwaka

The persistent energy crisis in South Africa, characterized by widespread loadshedding, emerged as a critical point of social and political discourse, particularly in the lead up to the 2024 general elections. Within this context, digital democracy played a pivotal role, as citizens leveraged social media platforms to voice their frustrations, demand accountability, and engage in political debates, shaping public sentiment and influencing the political landscape. This study investigates how South African citizens engaged with the loadshedding crisis on the X platform (formerly Twitter), and how these engagements reflect broader societal dynamics, including political sentiments and socioeconomic inequalities. This study applies topic modeling and narrative analysis to 4392 tweets from January 2023 to explore themes and narratives that emerged from online discussions about loadshedding. The findings reveal that citizens not only expressed frustration and blamed the ANC led government but also discussed the inequities in loadshedding schedules and shared strategies for coping with the crisis. Additionally, the study provides insight into the evolution of digital politics in South Africa, particularly how online discourse might influence political outcomes. By analyzing social media content, this research offers a deeper understanding of how crises like loadshedding serve as catalysts for public engagement and reflection on underlying social and political tensions in South Africa. The study contributes to the growing body of literature on digital democracy and crisis communication, offering a nuanced view of how citizens navigate and make sense of systemic failures in a complex and divided society.

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When does discursive change happen? Detecting phase transitions in discourse networks of sustainability transitions 话语变革何时发生？检测可持续性转型话语网络中的阶段性转变

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104020

Kimberley Vandenhole , Kristijan Garic , Philip Leifeld

Sustainability Transitions Research (STR) confronts complex societal challenges by examining societal shifts and their trajectories. An emerging perspective in STR is discursive approaches, which analyse the role of discourses and discourse coalitions in shaping sustainability transitions. However, discursive approaches face challenges regarding the analysis of sustainability transition processes as complex, temporal processes of stability and change. We discuss the nature of these challenges and extend the method of discourse network analysis (DNA) by measuring distinct temporal states (phases of stability) in discourse networks and detecting phase transitions (significant changes) between these discursive states. Whereas most approaches analyse discursive changes in a top-down way, we introduce a method for the bottom-up detection of discursive stability and change. This facilitates a more accurate tracing of how sustainability transitions unfold over time. An empirical application of this extension to the discursive networks around the introduction of a Low Emission Zone demonstrates how and when discourses and actors display significant structural shifts. This methodological innovation addresses the need for measuring stability and change in the complex, discursive, temporal dynamics of sustainability transitions.

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The good, the bad, and the unplugged: Community reactions and key challenges facing microgrid development in the United States

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104014

Mahmood Muttaqee, Maham Furqan, Hilary S. Boudet

This study examines the evolving landscape of microgrid development in the United States, with a specific focus on the social and community dimensions often overlooked in such projects. Using documentary analysis and 70 semi-structured interviews, we analyze 12 proposals for microgrid development across the country. Community responses are categorized into cases of opposition, limited engagement, and support. We explore key factors shaping these responses and their impact on project outcomes. The findings reveal that smaller utility-run ‘pilot’ microgrids, which utilized existing infrastructure and renewable energy sources, often resulted in limited engagement. In contrast, projects that lacked integration with existing infrastructure or relied on fossil fuels tended to face opposition. Successful projects that garnered community support achieved this by delivering multiple component benefits, such as improved energy resiliency and the integration of clean energy, while also making use of existing infrastructure and engaging with the community proactively. However, our results underscore that while community support is crucial, success can still be hindered by financial, technical, and bureaucratic challenges. Our research emphasizes that effective community engagement strategies are vital for the successful implementation of microgrids, particularly as they expand in size, scope, and complexity.

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Making energy renovations equitable: A literature review of decision-making criteria for a just energy transition in residential buildings

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104016

Diletta Ricci, Thaleia Konstantinou, Henk Visscher

Energy renovation of residential buildings is a key strategy for a just energy transition, involving complex socio-technical challenges and increasingly requiring attention to social implications and equity. However, what constitutes just energy renovations remains undefined and often limited to more abstract conceptualizations, lacking a field-specific definition, with integrated, implementation-oriented guiding strategies. Limiting the scope to developed countries, this study systematically reviews 104 interdisciplinary studies on energy renovation that consider social and resident dimensions. The literature is analysed through a synthesised framework of energy and spatial justice theories, adapting the principles of recognition, procedural, and distributive justice to residential environments and energy renovation requirements. Firstly, the study provides a comprehensive overview of socially oriented renovation research, demanding greater attention to vulnerable contexts, stakeholders' dynamics, design and post-renovation phases, through iterative, co-creative field research. Secondly, the study identifies critical domains, subdomains and related (in)justice trajectories within the three justice principles, offering context-sensitive application pathways and highlighting the relevance of beyond-energy-efficiency aspects and trust-building strategies. This results in a flexible framework of decision-making criteria that align environmental and social needs, supporting researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. Achieving justice requires interconnected mechanisms across decision-making levels and renovation phases, that rely on collaborative mutual-learning dynamics among actors. To complement strategic policies, design and implementation criteria emerged as crucial for ensuring effective engagement and user-centred interventions. This study contributes to validating energy justice as a decision-making guide, demonstrating the added value from spatial justice integration for a just urban transition, and laying fertile ground for further empirical research.

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Cycles of adversity: Parental joblessness in childhood and energy poverty in adulthood

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-03-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104011

Diep Hoang Phan , Sefa Awaworyi Churchill , Russell Smyth , Trong-Anh Trinh

This study examines the causal relationship between exposure to father's joblessness during childhood and adolescence and experiencing energy poverty in adulthood using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. To address concerns that father's joblessness is endogenous, we employ the interaction between the average number of recessions that occurred in the period before the individual was age 14 and maternal education level as an instrumental variable. We find that for individuals whose fathers were unemployed for six months or more growing up, the likelihood of being in energy poverty as an adult measured by subjective ability to heat the home, the objective Low-Income-High-Cost (LIHC) measure and the 10 % threshold indicator increases by 29.9 percentage points, 58.5 percentage points and 16.9 percentage points, respectively. We find that this relationship is mediated by education, health, labour market outcomes, locus of control and social capital.

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Assessing the transaction costs of residential solar photovoltaic acquisition

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-03-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104017

Sofie Sandin Lompar, Lena Neij

Generating electricity from solar photovoltaics (PVs) has massive potential, but realising this potential will require a genuine understanding of transaction costs associated with the adopters' acquisition of the technology. The objective of this study is thus to empirically assess the transaction costs that solar PV adopters carry when proceeding with an acquisition process. Data on transaction costs, expressed as time spent on 14 sub-tasks, for residential building-mounted PV systems in southern Sweden (acquired 2015–2021) were collected through online surveys targeting owners of single-family and multi-family buildings. The results show that the median time spent for the acquisition of PV was 45 h for single-family building owners, 36 h for multi-family building owners and 86 h for the multi-family housing cooperatives. However, the distribution of time spent on acquiring solar PV systems varies considerably, and several adopters spent >100 h on the process. The most time-demanding part of the acquisition process for single-family and multi-family building owners alike is the initial preparation task, which includes scoping information on feasibility and constructional and technical aspects, followed by the task of selecting and maintaining contacts with PV suppliers and installers. In all, the transaction costs reflect a low frequency, high asset specificity, as well as uncertainty associated with PV acquisition.

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Government-owned enterprises and sustainability: Review and research agenda

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103994

Toon Meelen , Jasper P. Sluijs

Government-owned enterprises (GOEs) can play a promising role in sustainability transitions because of their presence in energy-producing and energy-intensive sectors. However, empirical insights into the possible contributions and limitations of GOEs towards the many facets of sustainability transitions are scattered. This study is the first to provide a comprehensive review on the roles of GOEs in sustainability transitions, and to identify important knowledge gaps. We conduct a hybrid review on GOEs and sustainability transitions, and synthesize literatures from innovation studies, (business) economics, political science and governance/law. We first present an overview of the geographical and sectoral coverage of the literature and identify five different ways in which sustainability outcomes of GOEs are measured. We then discuss how firm-internal factors, government interaction, citizen engagement and scale, and competition influence sustainability outcomes of GOEs. The studied literature contains important lacunae, including the role of GOEs in long-term sustainability transformations, the influence of governance structures, and the relation to green industrial policy. We offer clear policy recommendations: government ownership will be able to positively contribute to sustainability transitions, but this is conditional on strong rule of law standards, sustained citizen engagement, and GOE-tailored regulation.

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Can we achieve equity in residential solar adoption? Public perceptions of rooftop and community solar in the United States

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104022

Naseem H. Dillman-Hasso, Nicole D. Sintov

Emerging research has examined the potential for community solar to broaden access to renewables, but little to no work examines public perceptions of community solar. A United States national sample (N = 1433) was surveyed, testing how perceptions of instrumental (practical utility outcomes of solar adoption), environmental (environmental outcomes of solar adoption), and symbolic (identity and social status signals of solar adoption) attributes, as well as demographic variables, influence willingness to adopt both community and rooftop solar. Linear regression models find that instrumental attributes are the strongest and most robust predictor of willingness to adopt both types of solar, with smaller positive effects of symbolic and environmental attributes. Although there are fewer barriers to adopting community than rooftop solar, people are less willing to adopt the former, with results suggesting low awareness of community solar. To boost adoption, we recommend increasing awareness and emphasizing instrumental attributes of community solar. This may ultimately enhance the potential of community solar to promote equity in access to renewables.

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Less emissions or less freight? Conflicting narratives for sustainable logistics in Norway

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104010

Rafael Rosales

Logistics is a vital yet energy-intensive sector and policies for sustainable logistics require cooperation between public authorities and businesses. However, public authorities and businesses may have different perceptions of what sustainable logistics entails. Research on logistics has typically either addressed strategies in private firms or investigated public sector plans and goals. This paper examines how ‘sustainable logistics’ is operationalised differently between public and business narratives based on three ‘grand narratives’: decarbonisation, collective logistics and low-mobility society. Data collection is based on document analysis of 18 public and business strategies for logistics in Norway, 42 semi-structured interviews and a survey with 88 respondents, all centred on the major urban areas in Norway (Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger). It finds that there is a discrepancy between public and business narratives for sustainable logistics, where public authorities promote all three narratives, with an emphasis on low-mobility society, whereas firms mainly target decarbonisation. This can help explain why collaboration between the public and business sectors has mainly addressed emissions and congestion as opposed to traffic reductions. A combination of the grand narratives is necessary to achieve an overall sustainable transport sector, but public authorities do not give logistics as much attention as passenger transport, reinforcing the business focus on decarbonisation.

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Sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations: Reviewing research, market and societal trends

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104018

Sandra Hasanefendic , Marjolein Hoogstraaten , Martin Bloemendal , Wouter Boon , Han Brezet , Maryse M.H. Chappin , Lars Coenen , Yuxi Dai , Remi Elzinga , Paula Femenías , Johan Frishammar , Nicolien van der Grijp , Anke van Hal , Elizabeth von Hauff , Renée Heller , Hans Hellsmark , Thomas Hoppe , Olindo Isabella , Matthijs Janssen , Jenni Kaipainen , Bart Bossink

Research into the impact of innovative sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations is crucial to diversifying, scaling up, and accelerating the sustainable energy transition. Although there is vast research into sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations, research literature offers a fragmented collection of findings. A coherent overview of themes and insights regarding the transformative impact of innovative sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations on sustainable energy systems from the past, present, and near future is lacking and necessary to increase experiments and demonstrations' impact on the sustainable energy transition. The research in this study fills this knowledge gap by providing such an overview and yields novel insights into the organized function and impact of experiments and demonstrations. It spans a broad spectrum of sustainable energy technologies, the empirical domains where these are invented, developed and applied, and the stakeholders involved. The overview is the outcome of a Delphi study in which the insights of 47 international scientific research experts in sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations are bundled and explained. This study presents a thematic overview of the significant insights regarding past and current sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations and outlines a research agenda for the future. Policymakers, practitioners, and scientists can leverage this to inform their sustainable energy policies, business strategies, and research programs.

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