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Stepping on the Gas: Pathways to Reduce Venting in Household-Scale Kenyan Biogas Digesters

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103963

Benjamin L. Robinson , Mike J. Clifford , Evance Okoth Ouma , Kevin Kinusu Kinyangi , Michael Wasonga Adimo , Charles Njoroge Muchoki , Grace Gathogo , Leah Kendi Kithinji , Tabitha Wanjiru Ngigi , Teresiah Njeri Mbuguah , Eric Murithi Rukaria , Samuel Machui Mwangi

One method of producing bioenergy is through Anaerobic Digestion (AD) of plant, animal, and human waste in a biodigester. AD is a cost-effective method of simultaneously managing harmful waste, creating biogas for cooking, and producing nitrogen-rich liquid fertiliser for agriculture. However, there is minimal exploration around how these household-scale biogas digesters, in Kenya and beyond, contribute to global bioenergy methane emissions - this paper directly addresses this gap.

We employ a two-phase approach which establishes the scale of the challenge through a rapid review of available literature on loss, leaking and venting, then contextualise this data with the lived experience of 33 biogas-users across 5 counties in Kenya.

The results highlight three critical dimensions - the demand, supply, and systemic from the users' perspectives - all linked to the venting phenomenon. The demand side showed a lack of understanding of venting and its causes, these included; pre-processing feedstock, feeding regime, seasonal influence, pressure, cookstove stacking, lack of maintenance and market access. On the supply side, our critical learning highlighted that biogas units are typically sold based upon the available feedstock, rather than the potential gas need. Next, we identify the systemic drivers; household-scale digesters do not pose a climate threat, a lack of technical solutions, and the overwhelming Pandora's Box of impacts. For each driver - the supply, demand, and systemic - we highlight a series of mitigating actions that small-scale, locally-led biogas stakeholders can take to minimise venting, this is summarised in our practical “venting framework”.

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From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103953

Caroline White-Nockleby , Scott D. Odell

While the cryosphere is deteriorating due to climate change, mining of critical minerals is expanding to supply the clean energy transition, often in glaciated regions. We explore the convergence of these trends through a systematic review of 93 articles from 1875 to 2023. Informed by the framework of the “hydrosocial cycle,” we attend to both material and epistemological links between mining and the cryosphere, as well as how these links have evolved over time. We organize this literature across four categories of glacier-mining interactions, which have tended to emerge chronologically as foci of scholarly research: (1) Glaciers as Obstacles to Mining, (2) Glaciers as Archives of Mining, (3) Mining Impacts and Dust, and (4) The Rise of Cryoactivism. For over a century, we find, mining activities helped shape not only the physical cryosphere, but also the production of discourses and scientific knowledge about it. Over the last two decades, research has undergone a shift from a predominant discourse of glaciers as “obstacles” to mining, towards a recognition of glaciers as “heritage” –sensitive, unique, and valuable ecosystems that mining may threaten. Our results demonstrate the need for research across a greater variety of locations, as well as more interdisciplinary research, to explicate the increasingly complex and widespread interactions between the cryosphere and mining. These findings also help illuminate some key environmental justice challenges of securing critical minerals for the clean energy transition.

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Diverging energy horizons: Rethinking public resistance in the Danish renewable energy transition

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103945

Matti Weisdorf, Kasper Tang Vangkilde, Simon Lex

This article provides a new perspective on public resistance to renewable energy projects based on ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark. The Danish government's ambition of quadrupling renewable energy production by 2030 has faced substantial resistance, with concerns over insufficient local engagement in, and destructive environmental impacts of, renewable energy projects as frequent points of contention. To enhance our understanding of this resistance, we introduce the concept of “energy horizons,” which designates frameworks for perception, experiences, and expectations in the energy transition, conditioned by personal, cultural, and social histories. By elucidating differing interests and concerns while, at the same time, not rigidly equating these concerns with distinct groups of people, the concept a) enriches our understanding of how and why actors perceive uncertainties and potentials of renewable energy projects very differently, b) counteracts the idea that resistance and concerns belong unambiguously to certain individuals or groups, and c) illuminates the injustices entailed when certain horizons drown out others. Ultimately, the article emphasizes the necessity of recognizing and integrating diverse horizons through dialogue and collaboration, advocating for a “fusion of horizons” that supports mutual understanding and inclusive decision-making. Our perspective highlights the potential for reconciling the urgent need for large scale renewable energy production with the complexities of local community values and identities.

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“We'd rather have a clean planet than anything else”: Household values and automated future electric vehicle charging

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103965

Fareed Kaviani , Kari Dahlgren , Sjaan Koppel , Yolande Strengers , Rex Martin , Hannah Korsmeyer , Sarah Pink

The increasing uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) presents both opportunities and challenges for the future electricity grid. Managing the uncertainties associated with EV uptake, charging routines, and household energy consumption patterns is crucial for grid operators to ensure stability and efficiency. This study responds to the prevalent belief within the energy industry that in lieu of effective time-of-use (TOU) tariffs and price-based incentives, smart appliances (dishwashers, EV chargers, water heaters, pool pumps) should be automated to manage home-based EV charging and balance demand during peak periods. However, this strategy overlooks the complexities of household energy routines and the reluctance of households to automate smart appliances. Drawing on a mixed-methods research project with households in Australia, including ethnographic insights and survey data, this study explores EV charging practices within broader household energy contexts. The findings challenge the assumption that correct price incentives or orchestrated charging are the most effective solutions for managing future EV charging. Specifically, we illustrate opportunities for demand management strategies to target household values such as environmentalism and sustainability. Further, we suggest leveraging current practices among EV households such as their preference for solar self-consumption and time spent working from home. We conclude by emphasising the need for policies aimed at apartment dwellers and renters that tackle inequalities in access to solar and home-based EV charging to allow broader participation in the energy transition to decarbonised and decentralised grid.

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Unveiling the shadows: Reassessing energy security through the lens of petro-violence and green colonialism

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103951

Yiming Mao

This paper offers a critical re-examination of these intertwined phenomena using a political ecology framework, challenging conventional energy security paradigms. By integrating case studies from Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria, the study explores how both fossil fuel and renewable energy sectors contribute to socio-political and environmental injustices. Through this lens, the paper reveals the limitations of state-centric and market-driven models and advocates for a paradigm shift towards an inclusive energy security framework. This redefined framework emphasises sustainability, equity, and global cooperation, urging policymakers to reconsider energy governance structures that perpetuate these injustices. The study's findings highlight the need for policies that incorporate just transitions and energy justice, ensuring that energy transitions do not replicate the exploitative practices of the past. Ultimately, this research calls for a more equitable and sustainable global energy landscape, where the benefits and burdens of energy development are distributed more fairly.

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Who saves energy and why? Analysing diverse behaviours in 27 European countries

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103922

John Eakins , Bernadette Power , Geraldine Ryan , Helena Strömberg , Lisa Diamond

This paper investigates the decision to undertake a range of energy saving actions using individual survey data. Responses to eleven different energy saving actions are examined. These actions are also grouped together under broader curtailment, efficiency and transport categories for additional insights. The final sample comprises over 20,000 responses from a Eurobarometer survey dataset across 27 European countries. Quantitative multivariate modelling is employed to examine the factors that shape the stated conservation choices. The results highlight the heterogeneity of the underlying socio-demographic and attitudinal effects. Age, gender, household composition, occupation, standard of living, accommodation status and location all influence the energy saving choice, but the effects are varied. For example, there is evidence that age has a non-linear effect which takes different forms for each energy saving action examined. The presence of children has counterbalancing effects, increasing the probability of efficiency actions, but decreasing the probability of curtailment actions. Improvements in standards of living have a positive effect on efficiency actions predominantly. In contrast, having expectations that prices will increase into the future has a positive effect on curtailment actions but a negative effect on efficiency actions. The heterogeneity in the pattern of responses highlight why energy conservation policies need a flexible approach. A one size fits all strategy is unlikely to provide enough scope to incentivise higher levels of engagement across all energy saving profile groups.

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Energy communities for degrowth: Democracy, reduction, maintenance and substitution

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103946

Daniel Petrovics , Federico Savini

This paper proposes a conceptual framework for degrowth research on energy communities, organizations which rely on the principles of voluntary membership, democratic control of renewable energy sources and relative autonomy from market forces. Prevailing sentiments suggest that energy communities' cooperative and democratic structure may offer a path towards goals set out by degrowth scholars, such as a reduction in energy throughput. However, no framework exists from which to assess if and how this occurs in practice. Therefore, we identify four dimensions that affect the degrowth potential of energy communities: democratization, reduction, maintenance and substitution. We develop each of these dimensions and propose that energy communities may drive a reduction in energy throughput if they (a) foster democratic decision-making, (b) explicitly seek to reduce their members' energy consumption, (c) maintain their democratic structure and physical infrastructure over the long term and (d) actively promote substituting existing fossil-based energy with renewable sources. Based on these dimensions, we identify six key avenues for research on energy communities and degrowth. We suggest that degrowth energy research should continue analysing the tensions and links between these dimensions.

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Gendered energy consumption goes beyond sex: Applying a multi-dimensional gender framework to Swiss survey data

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103944

Iljana Schubert , Angela Hinel , Paul Burger

Recent research in the field of energy transition emphasizes that gender matters. However, gender is mainly included as a binary (male/female) category in survey-based research on individual energy consumption behaviour (ECB), ignoring socio-cultural and psychological dimensions of gender often found in the literature on ECB. This paper strives to overcome this mismatch and puts forward a novel multi-dimensional gender approach for survey-based ECB research. The approach is comprised of biological/self-ascribed sex, psychological (e.g. items based on BSRI scale) and socio-cultural factors (e.g., national employment stereotypes, social roles). We estimate regression models for two types of ECB (overall energy consumption and specific behaviours) in three main energy domains: electricity, heating and mobility. The dependent variables reflect a broad spectrum of ECB with varying scale types as proxies for the variety of measures in ECB research. For each ECB we compare a sex only model with the multi-dimensional model. All 12 models are estimated using data from 5011 participants from the Swiss Household Energy Demand Survey. Results show that different gender dimensions are relevant for distinct ECB. For example, psychological gender components with more feminine traits (e.g. affectionate, helpful) are linked to higher public transport use and active mobility and heating-related savings. More masculine traits (e.g. authority, leadership) are related to saving electricity through switching-off the TV. Binary sex only predicts differences in the mobility domain, possibly indicating an overestimation of (binary) sex in previous studies. Hence, the paper provides strong evidence for applying a multi-dimensional gender approach in future ECB research.

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New ways of measuring energy poverty: Moving beyond temperature sensor data to assess and measure cold housing

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-02-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103956

Cynthia Faye Barlow , Lyrian Daniel , Emma Baker

Many people live in cold homes that are hazardous to health. In the absence of high-quality observed data, researchers have measured cold housing and assessed its prevalence using secondary proxy indicators. Proxy measures previously used in literature include self-assessed warmth of the home, perceived energy affordability, financial inability to heat the home in winter, and local climate zone. Using matched in-home temperature sensor data from 502 Australian homes, we assess the validity of these proxy measures by estimating the degree of association with measured indoor temperature. We also examine twelve correlated socio-demographic characteristics to explore promising alternative proxy measures.

Self-assessed perception of home warmth was shown to be the best existing proxy indicator of cold indoor air temperature (OR 2.5, CI 1.4 to 4.3), with climate zone (OR 2.4, CI 1.6 to 3.8) also shown to be a strong measure. Perceived energy affordability (OR 1.1, CI 0.7 to 1.9) and financial inability to adequately heat the home (OR 1.0, CI 0.6 to 1.6), were shown to be unsuitable proxy measures. Of the correlated socio-demographic characteristics, heating appliance type (electric heater OR 3.0, CI 1.4 to 6.2), household structure (living alone OR 2.5 CI 1.2 to 5.5), built date (built <1990 OR 2.11, CI 1.38 to 3.23) and flooring type (timber floor OR 1.99, CI 1.23 to 3.22) were strong indicators of cold indoor temperatures, and would make sound proxy measures. Our assessment of the reliability of existing and potential proxy measures of cold home temperature suggests a need to carefully select proxies, based on their known or established validity.

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“Here comes the sun”: Determinants of solar farm planning at local authority level in England

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.2024.103916

Muhammad Mohsin Hussain, Costanza Concetti, David Toke, Kathrin Thomas, Paula Duffy, Jo Vergunst

This article aims to better understand the factors influencing whether solar farm applications at local authority level in England are approved or rejected, defined as planning success. Previous research has focused on the micro-dynamics of renewable energy acceptance, but systematic research exploring the factors of renewable deployment with large N data is outstanding. We study the meso-level investigating the impact of actors and context on the approval of ground-mounted solar photovoltaic applications. The analyses rely on the Renewable Energy Planning Database provided by the United Kingdom's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and planning officer reports. Logistic regressions allow us to predict under what circumstances solar farm proposals in England are successful by local authorities. Our results suggest that only some actors matter: solar farm planning success seems to rely on recommendations of actors with institutional power and members of the public rather than advocacy groups. However, context also plays an important role, in particular, surrounding landscapes and planning guidelines. Robustness checks using Coarsened Exact Matching lend further confidence in our results. This implies that policymakers should address definitional and pragmatic issues that hinder the decision-making process in solar planning. This may encourage all stakeholders to employ different communication strategies in the future.

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