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The biogas niche is usually approached from a top-down perspective, and its actors are considered a unanimous advocacy group in the national policy discourse. This setting downplays the diversity of actors and...
Domestic energy consumption contributes to over a quarter of the UK’s carbon emissions, understanding how it is driven can be helpful for delivering a fair energy transition to net zero. Energy usage is noted ...
This paper seeks to explore the roles of distribution system operators (DSOs) in future energy systems. Measures to combat climate change have led to a transition in the energy sector, where old system fundame...
The shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources brings substantial changes in land use. Germany, with limited land availability, needs a spatial framework to allocate renewable energy while safeguardin...
The European Green Deal has rekindled interest in the mining of critical raw materials within Europe’s borders. The Weinebene lithium deposit, near Wolfsberg (Austria), deemed uneconomic as late as the 2000s, ...
In the energy transition framework towards decarbonization, green hydrogen, obtained through water electrolysis powered by renewable energy, is gaining importance. In order to pave the way to its production an...
Globally and regionally, nations are going through a period of important changes determined by the climate and environmental challenges in the context of the transition towards green economy, by the energy cri...
The transition to renewable energy is crucial for decarbonising the energy system but creates land-use competition. Whilst there is consensus on the need for local responsibility in achieving climate neutralit...
Addressing global climate challenges necessitates a shift toward sustainable energy systems, with public acceptance of energy technologies playing a vital role in their successful adoption. While extensive res...
Achieving climate neutrality in cities is a major challenge, especially in light of rapid urbanization and the urgent need to combat climate change. This paper explores the role of advanced computational metho...
Citizen participation is integral to the governance of sustainability transformations. Long-term participatory processes undergo various phases of opening up and closing down various scopes of the participatio...
The greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation quota is a unique instrument in Europe that redistributes money from high emission to low emission fuel markets while forcing fuel distributors to reduce the average emissio...
The original article was published in Energy, Sustainability and Society 2024 14:68
Land use for the conversion of energy from renewable sources into electrical energy is increasingly competing with cultural landscapes and natural areas. It is anticipated that by 2050, solar energy generation...
Research on portfolio optimization for energy generation often does so from a financial perspective. This study addressed a unique challenge: determining which companies, amidst a globalized electricity market...
Sustainability aspects have become a main criterion for design next to performance of material and product. Particularly the emerging field of energy storage and conversion is striving towards more sustainable...
Problems such as climate change, environmental pollution, nuclear disposal and unsustainable production and consumption share a common feature: they pose long-term challenges because of their complex nature, p...
The original article was published in Energy, Sustainability and Society 2024 14:22
Although Germany’s biogas capacity accounts for almost 7% of its installed worldwide capacity, the expansion of biogas plants has stagnated owing to the expiry of Germany’s Renewable Energy Sources Act Erneuerbar...
An ’energy community’ can add socioeconomic components to microgrids and has recently been solidified as the regulatory concept of a ’Citizen Energy Community’ by the European Union. Such energy communities ca...
While energy communities working on electricity provision have been extensively studied, thermal energy communities (TECs) focusing on bringing district heating (DH) systems to decarbonise heat systems in buil...
Many countries agreed to reduce CO2 emissions to limit global warming under the terms of the Paris Agreement. In Europe, this agreement is supported by the climate targets introduced under the European Green Deal...
One major question of climate and energy policy is how to act under conditions of great uncertainty. This contribution relates to the literature that studies how various actors draft regional energy scenarios ...
Although some socioeconomic, environmental, and political factors could impact life expectancy, the economic literature loses sight of the relationship between the widespread adoption of renewable energy techn...
Smart home technologies (SHT) make it easier than ever to track energy demands and are expected to contribute to the implementation of sustainability strategies. In particular, they are supposed to enable prom...
While discussions on nuclear energy mostly took place at the national level and the respective media arenas in the past, the questions of regulating sustainability and financing have now moved up to the supran...
The significance of sustainable energy development and the battle against climate change continues to grow each year. Countries exhibiting unsustainable fossil fuel consumption practices are actively pursuing ...
The Correction to this article has been published in Energy, Sustainability and Society 2025 15:13
While the energy system is recognized as the largest contributor to climate disruption, the bulk of the sustainability-oriented interventions are made through technologies rather than employment equity and soc...
Solar photovoltaic technology is one of the promising renewable energy solutions of the twenty-first century. It successfully provides electricity to industries, homes and even the transport sector. The decrea...
This theoretical paper offers an ecofeminist analysis and critique of a specific conception of energy. The hypothesis is that, at least in the Western context, there is a characteristic socio-economic understa...
To limit climate change and reduce further harmful environmental impacts, the reduction and substitution of fossil energy carriers will be the main challenges of the next few decades. During the United Nations...
The majority of mini-grids in Tanzania are managed by private entities, faith-based institutions, and the government. In contrast, a limited number of mini-grids under community management strive to survive. A...
Value creation is a common concept in business, and the core purpose of economic activity. “Value creation” of biogas refers to how much biogas value can be created when it is used for different purposes. The ...
Currently, there is no wind park operating along the Egyptian Mediterranean Coast. Therefore, this study aims to find suitable locations for such projects. Wind data from five coastal meteorological stations w...
In the context of urban energy transition, photovoltaic (PV) systems play an important role in electricity generation. However, PV technology has some environmental drawbacks that also need to be acknowledged ...
Demand response is an important option for accommodating growing shares of renewable electricity, and therefore, crucial for the success of the energy transition in Germany and elsewhere. In conjunction with s...
Social acceptance of energy infrastructure projects affects public support for the energy transition and is essential for the transition’s sustainability and success. Despite extensive research focusing on the...
Fossil fuels can be replaced with electricity and hydrogen. However, the implementation and use of these low-carbon energy carriers require a sociotechnical transition. This transition might not be completed i...
The processes of transport decarbonisation are complicated. In this paper, we adopt the Activity-Modal Share-Energy Intensity-Carbon Intensity of Fuel (ASIF) approach and propose a conceptual framework on the ...
The post-pandemic period, military conflicts, and geopolitical instability have all contributed to concerns regarding the world's sustainable and stable development, and small national economies are particular...
Environmental pollution and energy poverty have always been serious challenges for the global energy system.
Achieving zero-energy targets in residential buildings is challenging due to improper energy design and the selection of energy-related systems. Moreover, the absence of benchmarks for zero-energy residential ...
Virtual power plants (VPPs) represent a pivotal evolution in power system management, offering dynamic solutions to the challenges of renewable energy integration, grid stability, and demand-side management. O...
In a case study in Spain, the unequal proportion of men and women in a research organization in the energy sector is severe, and long-established dynamics that might determine differences in access to leadersh...
There is a close link between the lack of electricity access and poverty indicators such as illiteracy, high infant mortality, lack of access to health care and malnutrition among others. Most rural farming co...
Offshore wind energy (OWE) will play a significant role in achieving climate neutrality. For example, several scenarios for Germany (e.g., Kopernikus base, Kopernikus 1.5 degree, Prognos CN65, and CN60) depict...
PV/diesel microgrids are getting more popular in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, where the national grid is often unavailable. Most of the time, for economic purposes, these hybrid PV/diesel power plants in...
Large-scale renewable energy projects are increasingly being rolled out across rural Kenya, with the government playing a frontline role in attracting energy investors through various state-led and state-centr...
To reduce the effects of climate change, the current fossil-based energy system must transition to a low-carbon system based largely on renewables. In both academic literature and non-academic discourse concer...