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Corrigendum to “evolving energy poverty in the European Union in multi-crisis years 2022–2024: A large sample analysis” [energy research & social science, volume 129, November 2025, 104374] “多危机时期欧盟能源贫困的演变：大样本分析”的勘误表[能源研究与社会科学，第129卷，2025年11月，104374]

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104455

László Kökény , Olivér Hortay , Dóra Pálvölgyi , Levente Kökény

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Reviewing metrics and indicators for energy, climate, and environmental justice: A synthesis of 25 years of research 回顾能源、气候和环境正义的度量和指标：25年研究的综合

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104462

Nellie Amosi , Benjamin K. Sovacool , Rebecca Pearl-Martinez , Nina Palmy David , Chloe Sparrow Shader , Scott T. Schnur , Shannon E. Howley , Ruth Akorli , Simona Trandafir , David Bidwell

This study provides a systematic and interdisciplinary assessment of metrics for energy, climate, and environmental justice. It enriches existing literature by advancing a comprehensive approach that accounts for measures and metrics beyond the easily quantifiable, distributive justice factors used in much of the literature. Based on a systematic and critical umbrella review of published research over 25 years (from 2000 to 2024), we showcase a synthetic inventory of 2162 metrics compiled from >500 studies. We analyze them by their type, composition, dimensions, impact focus, and spatial scale. We find that existing metrics cut across qualitative, quantitative, and hybrid types, as well as simple versus complex composition. They also differ in their treatment of tenets of equity and justice, impacts on people, technology, the economy and the environment, and spatial scale of global, national, community, and household. As a final step, we evaluate 10 prominently recurring indicators of energy justice identified through a comprehensive literature review using the Analytical Hierarchy Process, a structured decision-making framework. The findings reveal a predominant focus on procedural metrics, with substantial concentrations on economic impacts. Our results identify emerging areas that remain underexplored, including political, health, and demographic impacts or toolkits on the household scale. We assert that the smaller proportion of complex indicators revealed in the analysis underscores the need for more sophisticated tools that integrate diverse dimensions or impacts of justice.

本研究对能源、气候和环境正义指标进行了系统的跨学科评估。它通过提出一种全面的方法来丰富现有的文献，这种方法超越了许多文献中使用的易于量化的分配正义因素。基于对过去25年（从2000年到2024年）已发表研究的系统和批判性综述，我们展示了从500项研究中汇编的2162个指标的综合清单。我们根据它们的类型、组成、维度、影响焦点和空间尺度来分析它们。我们发现现有的度量标准跨越了定性、定量和混合类型，以及简单与复杂的组合。它们在对待公平和正义的原则、对人、技术、经济和环境的影响以及全球、国家、社区和家庭的空间规模方面也存在差异。作为最后一步，我们评估了10个突出的能源正义指标，这些指标是通过使用结构化决策框架分析层次过程（Analytical Hierarchy Process）进行全面的文献综述确定的。调查结果显示，主要关注的是程序指标，而经济影响则相当集中。我们的研究结果确定了仍未充分探索的新兴领域，包括政治、健康和人口影响或家庭规模的工具包。我们认为，分析中显示的复杂指标所占比例较小，这突出表明需要更复杂的工具来综合司法的不同方面或影响。

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Gaming the system: exploiting regulatory and institutional loopholes for accumulation in Southern Italy's wind energy sector 钻体制的空子：利用监管和制度上的漏洞在意大利南部的风能部门积累

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104465

Samadhi Lipari

Amid ordinary regulatory and market mechanisms, southern Italy's energy transition has developed through a less visible terrain of corruption, coercion, and legal ambiguity. This article investigates how the expansion of industrial-scale wind energy has been enabled by the tactics of investors and entrepreneurs seeking to mitigate regulatory uncertainty and accelerate project permitting. The implications extend beyond Italy, as energy transitions worldwide risk reproducing inequality and compressing democratic participation. Addressing the limited qualitative research on how licit and illicit practices shape the development of green infrastructure in Europe, the article conceptualises a grey zone: a social arena where legality and illegality intersect through corruption, threatened or inflicted violence, and the judicialization of social conflict.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork (2018–2023) in the provinces of Avellino, Benevento, Foggia, and Potenza, and interviews with project stakeholders, the analysis shows how these tactics convert regulatory uncertainty into opportunities, allowing powerful actors to remove bureaucratic obstacles, neutralise opposition, and secure economic rents. Within a fragmented institutional environment—marked by overlapping competences, inconsistent laws, and chronic administrative weakness—business actors, public officials, and criminal organisations coordinate interests to “game the system” and boost accumulation.

Findings reveal how wind energy plants materialise through everyday negotiations of power, blurring boundaries between public authority, private interest, and criminal organisations. The article advances energy and political geography by theorising a contradictory convergence of the developmental logic of the state and the expansive drive of capital, showing that energy transitions unfold not despite, but through, the contradictions of law and governance.

在普通的监管和市场机制下，意大利南部的能源转型是通过一个不太明显的腐败、胁迫和法律模糊的领域发展起来的。本文研究了投资者和企业家寻求减轻监管不确定性和加速项目许可的策略是如何使工业规模的风能扩张成为可能的。其影响超出了意大利，因为世界范围内的能源转型有可能再现不平等并压缩民主参与。为了解决关于合法和非法行为如何影响欧洲绿色基础设施发展的有限定性研究，本文概念化了灰色地带：一个通过腐败、威胁或施加暴力以及社会冲突司法化而合法和非法交叉的社会舞台。根据在阿韦利诺省、贝内文托省、福贾省和波泰察省进行的民族志实地调查（2018-2023年），以及对项目利益相关者的采访，分析显示了这些策略如何将监管的不确定性转化为机会，使强大的参与者能够消除官僚主义障碍，消除反对意见，并获得经济租金。在一个权力重叠、法律不一致、行政管理长期薄弱的支离破碎的制度环境中，商业行为者、公职人员和犯罪组织协调利益，“玩弄制度”，促进积累。研究结果揭示了风力发电厂是如何通过日常的权力谈判实现的，模糊了公共权力、私人利益和犯罪组织之间的界限。本文通过将国家发展逻辑与资本扩张动力的矛盾趋同理论化来推进能源和政治地理学，表明能源转型不是在法律和治理的矛盾中展开，而是通过法律和治理的矛盾展开。

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Electric vehicle framing: Comparing insights using traditional and social media 电动汽车框架：使用传统媒体和社交媒体的见解比较

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104464

Chiara Cervini , Tao Ruan , Qin Lv , Rosalee A. Clawson , Andie Lee

To reach net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, countries around the world are incentivizing the uptake of low and zero-emission electric vehicles (EVs). To understand the social and political context of this shift toward electrified transportation, we study media coverage of EVs. Using a mixed methods approach, we examine media framing of EVs to understand how EV-related information is constructed and conveyed to the public. We draw on a framing typology developed based on traditional media coverage of EVs and apply the typology to discourse on two social media platforms: Twitter and Reddit. We find that the traditional media framing typology applies well to discussions on Twitter. Both traditional media and Twitter regularly rely on Business, Infrastructure, and Sustainability frames. Reddit, however, constructs EVs using a Metaframe, which is a mix of the frames delineated in the traditional media typology. Also, Reddit posts rely on a Technology frame, reflecting its unique interest-based users. Neither the traditional media nor social media sources we analyze use Equity frames to cover EVs. We conclude by addressing the importance of a mixed methods approach and the implications of our findings for EV adoption and transportation equity.

为了到2050年实现温室气体净零排放，世界各国都在鼓励使用低排放和零排放的电动汽车（ev）。为了理解这种向电气化交通转变的社会和政治背景，我们研究了媒体对电动汽车的报道。采用混合方法，我们研究了电动汽车的媒体框架，以了解与电动汽车相关的信息是如何构建和传达给公众的。我们借鉴了一种基于传统媒体对电动汽车报道的框架类型学，并将这种类型学应用于两个社交媒体平台上的话语：Twitter和Reddit。我们发现，传统的媒体框架类型学适用于Twitter上的讨论。传统媒体和Twitter都经常依赖于商业、基础设施和可持续性框架。然而，Reddit使用元框架构建电动汽车，这是传统媒体类型学中描述的框架的混合。此外，Reddit的帖子依赖于一个技术框架，反映了其独特的基于兴趣的用户。我们分析的传统媒体和社交媒体来源都没有使用公平框架来报道电动汽车。最后，我们阐述了混合方法的重要性，以及我们的研究结果对电动汽车采用和交通公平的影响。

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False solutions: How do fossil fuel companies reproduce their power through the energy transition 错误的解决方案：化石燃料公司如何通过能源转型来复制他们的力量

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104367

Marcel Llavero-Pasquina , Sarah Eckstein , Freddie Daley , Nathaniel Rugh , Judith Glimmerveen

In response to mounting political and social pressure to transform their business models, the fossil fuel industry is attempting to portray itself as “part of the solution” to the climate crisis by emphasising its investments into renewable energy, biofuels, green hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsets. However, environmental justice organisations have labelled these technologies as “false solutions” that do not address the root causes of the climate crisis and entrench environmental injustice and fossil fuel companies' power. In this paper, we formalise and operationalise a definition of false solutions by engaging with Gramsci's conception of hegemony and incumbent strategies, in particular the concept of trasformismo. We extend neogramscian theory by proposing a model of reproduction and reinforcement of power within and between three power domains: ideas, infrastructure, and institutions. Empirically, we explore the environmental conflicts that arise around the deployment of false solutions through a global analysis of 48 case studies in the EJAtlas and a coding methodology that identifies processes of power reproduction and reinforcement. We show that false solutions comprise an array of technologies that prolong fossil fuel hegemony and neutralise socio-political pressures for systemic transformation, thereby sustaining current extractive economic models that reproduce environmental conflicts and injustices.

为了应对要求化石燃料行业转变商业模式的日益增长的政治和社会压力，化石燃料行业正试图将自己描绘成气候危机“解决方案的一部分”，强调其在可再生能源、生物燃料、绿色氢、碳捕获和储存以及碳抵消方面的投资。然而，环境正义组织将这些技术称为“错误的解决方案”，它们没有解决气候危机的根本原因，并巩固了环境不公正和化石燃料公司的权力。在本文中，我们通过参与葛兰西的霸权和现任战略的概念，特别是转型主义的概念，将错误解决方案的定义形式化和可操作性。我们通过提出一个在三个权力领域（观念、基础设施和制度）内部和之间再生产和加强权力的模型来扩展新文法理论。经验上，我们通过EJAtlas中48个案例研究的全球分析和识别权力复制和强化过程的编码方法，探讨了围绕错误解决方案部署而产生的环境冲突。我们表明，错误的解决方案包括一系列技术，这些技术延长了化石燃料的霸权，并抵消了系统性转型的社会政治压力，从而维持了当前再现环境冲突和不公正的采掘经济模式。

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“Electric vehicles do not work in the winter”: Exploring the role of misperceptions and socio-psychological factors in zero-emission vehicle adoption “电动汽车在冬天不工作”：探索误解和社会心理因素在零排放汽车采用中的作用

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104450

Angel Onki Chow , Brett Dolter , Margot Hurlbert , Oscar Zapata

“Electric vehicles do not work in the winter” is one of the misperceptions affecting interests in low-carbon transportation and hindering the electrification of passenger transportation. This study aimed to examine the role of misperceptions of battery electric vehicles and socio-psychological factors in influencing zero-emission vehicle adoption with empirical evidence from Saskatchewan, Canada. This research collected a sample of 590 households via a web-based survey. Using univariate and multivariate analysis of variance, this research found statistically significant differences in various demographic and socio-psychological variables for the preferred vehicle groups. Participants who preferred zero-emission vehicles reported higher levels of positive attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, intentions to adopt clean energy technologies, technology lifestyle, environmental concerns and knowledge of zero-emission vehicles, but lower levels of misperceptions, compared to those who preferred conventional vehicles. Drawing on an extended Theory of Planned Behaviour, hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that attitudes towards zero-emission vehicles, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control were statistically significant in influencing behavioural intentions to purchase zero-emission vehicles. The extended model revealed that intentions to adopt residential solar panels and heat pumps predicted behavioural intentions. This study developed a scale to measure misperceptions of battery electric vehicles and found that misperceptions negatively affected behavioural intentions to purchase battery electric vehicles. These findings were rarely discussed in the existing literature. Policy implications for accelerating the transition to zero-emission vehicles were discussed.

“电动汽车冬天不工作”是影响低碳交通利益、阻碍客运电气化的误解之一。本研究旨在通过来自加拿大萨斯喀彻温省的经验证据，考察对纯电动汽车的误解和社会心理因素在影响零排放汽车采用中的作用。本研究通过网络调查收集了590个家庭的样本。使用单变量和多变量方差分析，本研究发现，在各种人口统计学和社会心理变量的首选车辆组的统计显著差异。与偏爱传统车辆的参与者相比，偏爱零排放车辆的参与者报告了更高水平的积极态度、主观规范、感知行为控制、采用清洁能源技术的意图、技术生活方式、环境问题和零排放车辆知识，但误解水平较低。利用扩展的计划行为理论，分层多元回归分析表明，对零排放车辆的态度、主观规范和感知行为控制在影响购买零排放车辆的行为意向方面具有统计学意义。扩展模型显示，采用住宅太阳能电池板和热泵的意图可以预测行为意图。本研究开发了一个量表来衡量对电动汽车的误解，并发现误解对购买电动汽车的行为意图产生了负面影响。这些发现在现有文献中很少被讨论。会议讨论了加速向零排放车辆过渡的政策影响。

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Low-carbon value chain building strategies across industrial and political contexts: A comparative analysis of decarbonization efforts in Norwegian and Japanese aviation 跨产业和政治背景的低碳价值链建设战略：挪威和日本航空脱碳工作的比较分析

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104472

Martina Fantini , Julius Paul Wesche , Tomas Moe Skjølsvold , Andrew John Chapman

Decarbonizing the aviation sector is a complex challenge that requires coordinated efforts across industries and the development of new value chains. This paper presents a comparative study of low-carbon aviation value chain building in Norway and Japan. We examine how industry and policy actors in these two countries approach the development of cleaner aviation technologies and infrastructure.

Using interviews and document analysis, we find major differences regarding the composition of actor networks, the sequencing, focus and scale of value chain building activities, and the role of regulations. In Norway, the process is driven by start-ups and emphasizes national coordination. In Japan, large incumbent firms lead the way, often engaging with international stakeholders. These contrasting approaches reflect broader differences in political, industrial, and resource endowments. This study highlights the complex, multi-scalar nature of value chain development in hard-to-abate sectors and examines stakeholder strategies to navigate sectoral interdependencies in low-carbon innovation. It also offers insights to guide effective aviation decarbonization policies across diverse industrial and political contexts.

航空业的脱碳是一项复杂的挑战，需要跨行业的协调努力和新价值链的发展。本文对挪威和日本的低碳航空价值链建设进行了比较研究。我们研究了这两个国家的行业和政策参与者如何发展更清洁的航空技术和基础设施。通过访谈和文献分析，我们发现在行动者网络的构成、价值链建设活动的顺序、重点和规模以及法规的作用方面存在重大差异。在挪威，这一进程由初创企业推动，并强调国家协调。在日本，大型老牌公司走在前面，经常与国际利益相关者合作。这些截然不同的方法反映了政治、工业和资源禀赋方面更广泛的差异。本研究强调了难以减弱的行业价值链发展的复杂性、多标量性，并探讨了利益相关者在低碳创新中引导行业相互依赖关系的战略。它还为在不同的工业和政治背景下指导有效的航空脱碳政策提供了见解。

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Energy equity: A rapid evidence review focused on developed economies 能源公平：以发达经济体为重点的快速证据审查

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104466

Germán Andrés Alarcón Garavito , George W. Warren , Mari Martiskainen , Michael J. Fell , Gesche M. Huebner

Energy is a vital requirement for human life. However, procedural, distributive, and structural inequalities exist in its use, production and distribution. While equity through public health, environment, and education lenses are widely established concepts, ‘energy equity’ has not been clearly defined or conceptualised in the same way. To explore this, we conducted a rapid evidence review of articles containing definitions of energy equity and/or indicators for how energy equity may be measured in developed economy contexts. 18 relevant articles were identified.

We find no homogeneous definition of energy equity. Most commonly, energy equity definitions consisted of energy poverty, energy access and energy justice conceptual components. Energy equity indicators were very heterogeneous in focus and measurement. Energy equity was particularly discussed in the context of community energy.

There is conceptual overlap between energy equity and other terms such as energy poverty, access and justice. That said, energy equity has a very clear meaning when considering general usage of the word ‘equity’, here recognising differentiated needs. Energy equity could therefore have a particular use in energy research and policy making. There might be scope for energy equity as a holistic and more politically neutral term than energy justice that may be more acceptable to key stakeholders. This work also acts as an identifier of avenues for future research. Among other topics, future examination of public, advocacy group, and political actors' views on and support for various energy concepts, including energy equity and energy justice, is one potential avenue for future exploration.

能量是人类生命的必需品。然而，在其使用、生产和分配中存在着程序、分配和结构上的不平等。虽然公共卫生、环境和教育方面的公平是广泛确立的概念，但“能源公平”尚未以同样的方式得到明确定义或概念化。为了探讨这一点，我们对包含能源公平定义的文章和/或发达经济体中如何衡量能源公平的指标进行了快速证据审查。确定了18条相关条款。我们发现能源公平没有统一的定义。最常见的是，能源公平的定义包括能源贫困、能源获取和能源正义的概念组成部分。能源公平指标在重点和测量上非常不一致。在社区能源方面特别讨论了能源公平问题。能源公平与能源贫困、获取和公正等其他术语在概念上存在重叠。也就是说，当考虑到“公平”这个词的一般用法时，能源公平有一个非常明确的含义，这里承认差异化的需求。因此，能源公平可以在能源研究和政策制定中发挥特殊作用。与能源公正相比，能源公平可能是一个整体的、政治上更中立的术语，可能更容易被关键利益相关者接受。这项工作也为未来的研究指明了道路。在其他主题中，未来审查公众、倡导团体和政治行动者对各种能源概念的看法和支持，包括能源公平和能源正义，是未来探索的一个潜在途径。

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Beyond grid connection: A Q-methodology study of stakeholder perspectives on energy poverty in urban Ghana 超越电网连接：加纳城市能源贫困利益相关者视角的q方法研究

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104471

Stephen Sodoke , Ilya Ermolin , Dickson Boateng , Ebenezer Gyampoh Amoah

Energy access remains a critical determinant of socio-economic development, facilitating education, healthcare, economic activities and enhanced quality of life. Although Ghana has achieved about 85 % electricity grid connectivity, urban energy poverty persists through complex interactions of economic, cultural and infrastructural factors. Drawing on the Capability Approach and Cultural-Ecological Theory, this study conceptualizes energy poverty as a multidimensional and culturally embedded phenomenon which extends beyond physical access to include quality, reliability and social meaning. It offers a novel framework that integrates subjective perspectives with multidimensional deprivation indicators to examine energy poverty and reveals vulnerabilities that traditional metrics often overlook. By employing the Q-methodology to explore the subjective perspectives of 40 urban Ghanaian stakeholders on energy poverty, four distinct viewpoints are identified- (i) economic hardship and basic needs trade-offs (ii) infrastructure reliability and traditional energy preferences (iii) gender equality and environmental awareness, (iv) service quality and modern energy preferences. The findings further reveal ‘hidden energy poverty’ where grid-connected households experience substantial consumption constraints due to affordability issues, cultural preferences and unreliable infrastructure. This study contributes to energy poverty scholarship and provides useful information for policy formulation to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.

获得能源仍然是社会经济发展、促进教育、保健、经济活动和提高生活质量的关键决定因素。尽管加纳已经实现了约85%的电网连接，但由于经济、文化和基础设施因素的复杂相互作用，城市能源贫困仍然存在。利用能力方法和文化生态理论，本研究将能源贫困定义为一种多维的、文化嵌入的现象，它超越了物质获取，包括质量、可靠性和社会意义。它提供了一个新的框架，将主观视角与多维剥夺指标相结合，以检查能源贫困，并揭示传统指标经常忽视的脆弱性。通过采用q -方法论来探索40个加纳城市利益相关者对能源贫困的主观观点，确定了四种不同的观点- (i)经济困难和基本需求权衡（ii）基础设施可靠性和传统能源偏好（iii）性别平等和环境意识，（iv）服务质量和现代能源偏好。研究结果进一步揭示了“隐性能源贫困”，即由于负担能力问题、文化偏好和不可靠的基础设施，并网家庭经历了巨大的消费限制。这项研究有助于能源贫困研究，并为制定政策提供有用的信息，以确保所有人都能获得负担得起的、可靠的、可持续的现代能源。

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From climatic hazards to systemic vulnerabilities: Evolving perceptions of climate risk in Norway's renewable energy sector 从气候危害到系统脆弱性：挪威可再生能源部门对气候风险的认识不断演变

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science

Pub Date : 2025-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104456

Tara Botnen Holm , Anne Sophie Daloz , Lin Ma , Nicole van Maanen , Ranjana Tamang , Carlo Aall

The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly apparent, yet the influence of transitioning to a renewable, weather-dependent energy system on risk remains insufficiently examined. This article addresses this gap with three empirical case studies, including interviews and a sectoral survey, which explore how stakeholders in Norway's renewable energy sector perceive and interpret climate risk. While previous research on the effects of climate change on the energy system often predicts positive outcomes for production and demand, especially in Northern Europe, our findings highlight growing concerns about increasing risks. Firstly, there is an acknowledgement that previous assessments overestimated benefits such as reduced heating during warmer seasons and increased hydropower, while simultaneously underestimating hazards from extreme weather events and other threats. Secondly, it has become apparent that vulnerabilities driven by societal changes, in combination with climate change, influence climate risk. The study suggests that transitioning to a renewable energy system may introduce new vulnerabilities, as exemplified by the European energy crisis, which highlights how climatic and non-climatic factors collectively contribute to increasing energy prices and concerns about energy security. These insights enhance our understanding of climate risk in renewable energy systems and highlight the significance of integrated adaptation and governance strategies in creating resilient, low-risk energy futures.

气候变化的影响正变得越来越明显，但向可再生、依赖天气的能源系统过渡对风险的影响仍未得到充分研究。本文通过三个实证案例研究解决了这一差距，包括访谈和部门调查，探讨了挪威可再生能源部门的利益相关者如何看待和解释气候风险。虽然以前关于气候变化对能源系统影响的研究经常预测生产和需求的积极结果，特别是在北欧，但我们的研究结果强调了对日益增加的风险的日益关注。首先，人们认识到，以前的评估高估了诸如在温暖季节减少供暖和增加水电等效益，同时低估了极端天气事件和其他威胁的危害。第二，显而易见的是，社会变化与气候变化相结合导致的脆弱性影响着气候风险。该研究表明，向可再生能源系统的过渡可能会引入新的脆弱性，欧洲能源危机就是一个例子，它突出了气候和非气候因素如何共同导致能源价格上涨和对能源安全的担忧。这些见解增强了我们对可再生能源系统气候风险的理解，并强调了综合适应和治理战略在创建有弹性、低风险的能源未来方面的重要性。

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