Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103906
Martin J. Pasqualetti , Richard C. Smardon
This article examines how energy landscapes can be transformed and how we can apply the niche effect of diffusion and adoption of innovation in recycling such energy landscapes into more sustainable reuse. As such, recycling our energy landscapes helps meet the needs of the present while incorporating prudence, intergenerational equity, precaution, responsibility, and governance. We examine how the energy landscapes of the present we are creating today can be reused indefinity for the benefit of all who come after us. Using examples largely from the United States and Germany, we address (1) an emerging process by seeking a meta-frame to encompass a developing and emerging field and (2) the changing temporal context by project cycle, longitudinal or intergenerational models. We find that the manifest benefits and critical needs for recycling energy landscapes are edging out the past practice of site abandonment. The enhanced recycling potential of renewable energy landscapes will add to the value we reap as we transition away from conventional energy resources.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103907
Fabian Dablander , Colin Hickey , Maria Sandberg , Carina Zell-Ziegler , John Grin
In a rapidly warming world, the transition to renewable energy faces challenges on many fronts. Sufficiency measures, which focus on reducing overall energy demand, hold great potential to accelerate the energy transition and create truly sustainable societies, yet remain underexplored in policy circles. In our perspective, we emphasize sufficiency as a cornerstone for a successful energy transition and broader societal sustainability. We identify key barriers to sufficiency and sketch how policymakers, businesses, researchers, the media and arts, and civil society can help to overcome them. We note that a full transition to sufficiency, beyond individual interventions or novel practices, requires systemic changes that address underlying structural barriers, and distil four broad lessons from the field of transition studies that can help achieve these systemic changes. We call on relevant stakeholders to embrace sufficiency in order to accelerate the energy transition.
{"title":"Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition","authors":"Fabian Dablander , Colin Hickey , Maria Sandberg , Carina Zell-Ziegler , John Grin","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103907","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103907","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a rapidly warming world, the transition to renewable energy faces challenges on many fronts. Sufficiency measures, which focus on reducing overall energy demand, hold great potential to accelerate the energy transition and create truly sustainable societies, yet remain underexplored in policy circles. In our perspective, we emphasize sufficiency as a cornerstone for a successful energy transition and broader societal sustainability. We identify key barriers to sufficiency and sketch how policymakers, businesses, researchers, the media and arts, and civil society can help to overcome them. We note that a full transition to sufficiency, beyond individual interventions or novel practices, requires systemic changes that address underlying structural barriers, and distil four broad lessons from the field of transition studies that can help achieve these systemic changes. We call on relevant stakeholders to embrace sufficiency in order to accelerate the energy transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103907"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103924
Luis Eduardo Medrano-Gómez, Paola Boarin, Alessandro Premier
Post-Occupancy Evaluations (POEs) have historically adopted a technocentric approach often lacking theoretical frameworks to support deeper analyses. Socio-technical POEs involve theories and methods that support the understanding of both technical and social aspects of building performance and the interaction between occupants and buildings. Researchers have recognised residential building retrofitting as a complex socio-technical issue that requires consideration of how physical arrangements support sustainable practices, rather than a technical issue that is easily addressed by installing technology and relying on rational choices. However, no review studies have explicitly investigated socio-technical POEs in retrofitted residential buildings. This study addressed the gap in current research by conducting a systematic review to identify investigative aspects such as suitable methodological and theoretical frameworks, social and technical parameters, benefits, barriers, gaps in knowledge, and future research that can guide researchers in conducting socio-technical POEs. The results showed that although the field of socio-technical POE of retrofitted dwellings is under-researched, it has allowed to identify issues during the retrofit process while uncovering occupant practices, needs, and preferences that impact the performance of buildings. The challenges and limitations of this approach are concerned with access to data, reliability and accuracy of self-reported data, and transferability of findings. The barriers preventing the adoption of this approach are related to the complexity of the evaluation, resources, interdisciplinarity, and regulatory issues. A gap persists on the impact of practices and behaviours on the performance of retrofitted homes, and more research is needed to grow the body of evidence of socio-technical POE.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103926
B.A. Gálvez-Campos
Taking Guatemala as a case study, this case study helps understand energy governance where multiethnicity and pluriculturality should inform decisions on energy systems' design. To do so, drawing on a mixed methodological approach that involves content and narrative analysis, coupled with a proposed theory framework articulated from the constructivist approaches of Foucault, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, and discursive psychology, this research mainly analyses two documents: the Energy Policy 2019–2050 elaborated by the Mines and Energy Ministry (MEM) of Guatemala and, the Study on the Guatemalan energy model and its socio-environmental repercussions by the Asociación Comisión Paz y Ecología (COPAE). The COPAE document represents the only alternative energy model proposed so far. Such a proposal is based on the perspective of Maya's People Board. This research seeks to answer the following questions: How do energy security discourses produce and reproduce worlds and subjectivities? What are the implications of energy security discourses over the right of existence, decolonial justice, and territorial sovereignty? Are current energy justice frameworks enough to capture what is at stake? Given Guatemala's pluricultural and multiethnic nature and its implications for energy policy and vice versa, this case study can inform energy governance in other contexts, especially where sociocultural conflicts linked to energy transition emerge.
The ontological awareness this research raises unveils that “the world that we design [through energy security discourses], designs us back.”
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103920
Imad Antoine Ibrahim, Franziska Baack, Ewert Aukes, Lisa Sanderink, Frans Coenen, Florian Helfrich, Athanasios Votsis, Thomas Hoppe
The concept of energy autarky, namely self-sufficient energy production and consumption, gained traction as states and other actors seek alternatives to centralised energy systems and conventional energy sources. This led to discussions about the potential for achieving autarky at various territorial levels, including national, regional, local, and even city district or household. While studies on autarky at the national level exist, the connotations of autarky at the local community level remain underexplored. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by exploring the connotations local communities and stakeholders attach to the state of autarky in local energy systems. Five connotations are identified from the literature, illustrated and reflected upon using a multiple-case study research approach, with six illustrative cases from Denmark, the Netherlands, and India. Results show that energy autarky is a context-dependent concept and that local community members attribute different connotations to it, some of which overlap. Additionally, challenges to autarky in local energy systems follow from local contextual conditions, leading to varying degrees to which communities achieve or even pursue autarky.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103888
Sam Unsworth , Helene Ahlborg , Sofie Hellberg
In this empirical study we examine the characteristics of energy systems change for Rwanda envisioned by actors seeking to drive transitions who are based both within and outside the country. We rely on empirical data from interviews (N = 62) and observations. We focus on electricity and cooking services as domains which actors including the Rwandan government are seeking to transform. Our study proposes two sociotechnical imaginaries of change. The first envisions rapid, large-scale and private sector-led adoption of externally developed technologies and priorities, aligning with global sustainability agendas. The second envisions a more gradual pathway co-produced by local actors. The first imaginary's dominance has material implications. It frames Rwanda as a recipient of technology from transnational actors, who co-produce the imaginary along with the government. From a critical standpoint, the first imaginary assigns a passive role to users and rural actors while prioritizing transnational actors in urban areas, reproducing coloniality. The second imaginary similarly adheres to modernist ideals of technoscientific advance and economic catch up. Nonetheless, making room for the second imaginary and actors who challenge the first imaginary may avoid transitions in Rwanda inevitably favouring externally developed technologies and knowledges. Promisingly, certain alternative perspectives imagine transitions with characteristics which disturb the coloniality and adherence to modernity perceptible in the two imaginaries. We invite transnational actors to reflect over their participation in the stabilisation and destabilisation of place-specific energy systems change imaginaries. From a policy perspective, we highlight tensions between ambitions to implement rapid energy transformations and to innovate technologies domestically.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103929
Ray Galvin , Steven März
Residential buildings were the source of 11.6 % of Germany's greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, emitting around 78 million tonnes of CO2e, mostly due to inefficient heating and inadequate energy efficiency. This needs to be reduced to near zero by 2045. This will involve deep energy performance renovation of some 23 million dwellings, which is expensive and seldom pays back through energy cost savings. Around 43 % of all rental dwellings, almost 10 million, are owned by small private landlords, most of whom show little enthusiasm for deep energy performance investment. Instead, they tend to save small amounts and spend these on piecemeal renovations, while avoiding debt. This study explores the potential of a novel savings and loan scheme that would better accord with their saving capacity, be profitable for banks, and fund large, one-off deep energy performance upgrades. It rests on the fact that the long-term, committed savings of landlords could act as M1 collateral for banks to create large amounts of new M2 money by issuing loans, from which they make reasonable profits. This would enable banks to offer low-interest loans to small private landlords who commit to such savings. These landlords would continue to commit monthly amounts, but these would be savings for only the first few years, then loan repayments. With the savings and loan scheme, we are contributing to the debate on new and creative ways to incentivize specific target groups to accelerate the decarbonization of the building stock.
{"title":"A finance scheme to help Germany's small private landlords sharply increase their buildings' energy performance: Tapping into the banking system","authors":"Ray Galvin , Steven März","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103929","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103929","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Residential buildings were the source of 11.6 % of Germany's greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, emitting around 78 million tonnes of CO2e, mostly due to inefficient heating and inadequate energy efficiency. This needs to be reduced to near zero by 2045. This will involve deep energy performance renovation of some 23 million dwellings, which is expensive and seldom pays back through energy cost savings. Around 43 % of all rental dwellings, almost 10 million, are owned by small private landlords, most of whom show little enthusiasm for deep energy performance investment. Instead, they tend to save small amounts and spend these on piecemeal renovations, while avoiding debt. This study explores the potential of a novel savings and loan scheme that would better accord with their saving capacity, be profitable for banks, and fund large, one-off deep energy performance upgrades. It rests on the fact that the long-term, committed savings of landlords could act as M1 collateral for banks to create large amounts of new M2 money by issuing loans, from which they make reasonable profits. This would enable banks to offer low-interest loans to small private landlords who commit to such savings. These landlords would continue to commit monthly amounts, but these would be savings for only the first few years, then loan repayments. With the savings and loan scheme, we are contributing to the debate on new and creative ways to incentivize specific target groups to accelerate the decarbonization of the building stock.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103929"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103891
Bas Brouwer , Rutger van Bergem , Sander Renes , Linda M. Kamp , Thomas Hoppe
Onshore wind energy projects are traditionally developed by commercial project developers. However, the development of these projects is increasingly encountering problems due to poor social acceptance and legal objections. In addition to commercial project developers, renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops) also develop onshore wind energy projects. These non-commercial entities are driven by local, ecological and egalitarian values and often strive for local ownership. This influences the rules-in-use they apply when planning and developing projects. In this paper, fourteen cases of onshore wind energy project development in the Netherlands are analysed using Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework. The objectives are: (1) to investigate how the rules-in-use differ between fourteen selected onshore REScoop wind energy projects and onshore commercial wind energy projects in the Netherlands, (2) to investigate how the project duration and the number of submitted views and appeals differ between these two types of wind energy projects, and (3) to determine to what extent the observed differences in rules-in-use can explain the differences in project duration and the number of views and appeals submitted. The research design involves a stepwise approach, including qualitative within-case analysis, followed by quantitative cross-case statistical analysis. The results show that projects developed by REScoops differ on six out of seven rules, especially pay-off, position, and aggregation rules. For projects with a higher percentage of REScoop ownership, the total duration of project planning and development is shorter, there are fewer submitted views during the permit application process and fewer appeals to the Council of State.
{"title":"Does local ownership matter? A comparative analysis of fourteen wind energy projects in the Netherlands","authors":"Bas Brouwer , Rutger van Bergem , Sander Renes , Linda M. Kamp , Thomas Hoppe","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103891","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2024.103891","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Onshore wind energy projects are traditionally developed by commercial project developers. However, the development of these projects is increasingly encountering problems due to poor social acceptance and legal objections. In addition to commercial project developers, renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops) also develop onshore wind energy projects. These non-commercial entities are driven by local, ecological and egalitarian values and often strive for local ownership. This influences the rules-in-use they apply when planning and developing projects. In this paper, fourteen cases of onshore wind energy project development in the Netherlands are analysed using Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework. The objectives are: (1) to investigate how the rules-in-use differ between fourteen selected onshore REScoop wind energy projects and onshore commercial wind energy projects in the Netherlands, (2) to investigate how the project duration and the number of submitted views and appeals differ between these two types of wind energy projects, and (3) to determine to what extent the observed differences in rules-in-use can explain the differences in project duration and the number of views and appeals submitted. The research design involves a stepwise approach, including qualitative within-case analysis, followed by quantitative cross-case statistical analysis. The results show that projects developed by REScoops differ on six out of seven rules, especially pay-off, position, and aggregation rules. For projects with a higher percentage of REScoop ownership, the total duration of project planning and development is shorter, there are fewer submitted views during the permit application process and fewer appeals to the Council of State.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103891"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143142170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103919
Tiffany Smythe , Emma Korein , Sara Swett , David Bidwell , Jeremy Firestone , Kelsey Leonard
Offshore wind is a growing part of coastal states' energy portfolios and is undergoing rapid expansion in the United States. A robust body of research examines this transition through the lens of energy justice, which we employed in an exploratory qualitative analysis of offshore wind in northeast United States coastal communities where the first projects are located. Our goal was to investigate community members' experiences of distributive, recognition, and procedural justice regarding offshore wind development. We selected five frontline coastal communities and conducted 37 interviews, seeking representation from local/state governments; port/working waterfront businesses; the fishing community, and community groups, with a focus on low-income and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) community members. Thematic analysis of interviews revealed six themes and associated sub-themes synthesizing participants' experiences. Analysis revealed that community members observed and experienced linkages between distributive, recognition and procedural forms of justice. Findings both illustrate these linkages and provide insights into the individual tenets. Participants experienced the government-led planning and permitting process itself as the problem. They believed that the primacy of local communities was inadequately recognized, and held complex and nuanced views of benefits and burdens. Further, participants observed that low-income and BIPOC community members are experiencing injustices. Results support multiple recommendations for research and practice, including an integrated approach to energy justice scholarship and practice that acknowledges the linkages between the three justice tenets. We also recommend process improvements and a commitment to engaging with and supporting low-income and BIPOC communities.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103912
Jacobo Ramirez , Eleonora Costantino , Christiane Durach , Jury Flickenschild , Han Chen Sun , Ikal Ang'elei , Paul Lekapana
This study examines the injustices faced by Indigenous peoples when they are not clearly recognized in green energy investments, taking the Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) project in Kenya as a case study. The Indigeneity of Lake Turkana's self-identified Indigenous communities is deeply rooted in their ancestral lands. However, Kenya's ambiguity in categorizing Indigenous peoples and its detachment from international frameworks such as ILO 169 contribute to the perpetuation of energy injustices. The LTWP consortium exploits this ambiguity to detach itself from claims of “illegal” land acquisition. Meanwhile, the affected communities face fragmentation, restricted mobility, and involuntary resettlement. This research, grounded in decoloniality and pluriversalism approach, highlights the dynamics of symbolic attachment and detachment that influence Indigenous energy justice and land rights. By recognizing multiple ways of knowing and being, it argues for a decolonial shift that respects Indigenous sovereignty and integrates their perspectives into sustainable development frameworks. This study underscores the necessity of respecting Indigenous rights as a pathway toward achieving true justice and sustainability in energy projects.
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