Energy Policy

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Volume 215, issue C, 2026

Recycling nuclear landscapes: The unsettled legacy of power plant decommissioning

Martin J. Pasqualetti and Barry D. Solomon

Complex influencing factors and variants of societal energy demand – quantified explorative scenarios as a tool for strategic planning

Sigrid Prehofer, Felicitas Ortlieb, Matthias Leger, Sandra Wassermann and Ulrich Fahl

The persistence paradox of OPEC: Evidence from an evolutionary snowdrift game

Saeed Rasekhi and Roya Saedi

Financing energy communities: Actors, instruments, builders, and ESG ecosystem expectations in Italy

Maksym Koltunov, Luca Tricarico and Adriano Bisello

The counterfactual policy scenario: are renewables cheaper?

Paul Simshauser and Joel Gilmore

Exploring climate resilience, diversification and rural electrification as mitigation policy measures in Tanzania's energy sector

Samwel Manyele

Community benefit agreement preferences for energy development offshore California, Oregon, and Washington: Insights from a choice-based conjoint experiment

Hossain Ahmed Taufiq, Gregory Joseph Stelmach, Umama Rahman, Muhammad Usman Amin Siddiqi and Hilary Boudet

Energy poverty dynamics and geostrategic shocks: Moderation of financial markets

Wajid Ali, Nidhi Dhankar, Vishal Dagar and Amar Rao

Living with less: Energy use adaptation and housing cost burden among public housing residents

Gum-Ryeong Park and Richard Waldron

From growth to governance: What drives energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Gunjan Kumari and Sourav Mohanty

Women's political empowerment and electricity affordability: A spatial analysis

Hemachandra Padhan, Mustafa Kocoglu, Mohammed Alnour and Ahmet Tanc

Energy policy sequencing for SDG-aligned transitions in East Asia–Pacific: Evidence of stage-dependent effects and threshold dynamics

Masud Rana, Bablu Kumar Dhar, Krishno Karmakar, Mohammad Mahadi Hasan, Nayan Kumar Sarker and Hasibul Islam

Insulating inequality: Limits of housing retrofit subsidies in tackling energy poverty in Czechia

Dominik David and Hedvika Koďousková

Numbers and narratives: Understanding community sentiment about renewable energy infrastructure

R.M. Colvin

Climate risk and firm environmental accountability: Evidence for energy transition policy

Ramzi Benkraiem, Weiqiang Tan and Longsheng Wu

Uncovering the cognitive costs of energy poverty in Australia

Opoku Adabor

From marginal renewable to strategic asset: Tracing the evolution of EU policies on biogas and biomethane

Xiuyue Shan, Marcus Gustafsson, Stefan Anderberg and Wisdom Kanda

Renewable hydrogen: The system-wide impact of PPAs and additionality requirements for selected European countries

Lissy Langer, Anders Bjørn, Benjamin F. Hobbs, Matthew Brander and Rasmus Bramstoft

Carrot and stick: A comparative analysis of instruments for accelerating the hydrogen and power-to-X economy

Stefan Rahim, Andreas Hofrichter, Franz Bauer, Leon Schumm and Michael Sterner

Boosting hydrogen, slashing emissions: the regulatory design of low-carbon hydrogen

Clémence Lévêque, Aurélien Ailleret, Manuel Villavicencio and Johannes Trüby

From policy to reality: Forecasting Spain's vehicle fleet trajectory toward 2030 climate targets

Raimundo Díaz-Díaz, Aida Galiano, Juan Manuel Martín-Álvarez and Jorge Barrientos-Marín

Multidimensional income quality: A new lens on energy poverty in rural China

Xiaoyu Yang, Yizhu Long, Blas Mola-Yudego, Pelkonen Paavo, Yu Xv and Mei Qu

Loss and damage fund and countries’ incentives to compensate for climate-related damages

Damiano B. Silipo, Işıl S. Yılmaz and Antonio Forte

Faster, higher, fairer? How multi-level instrumental justice reconfigures net-zero energy transitions in China

Weimin Zhang, Marfuga Iskandarova, Steve Griffiths and Benjamin K. Sovacool

Transforming emerging economies for a sustainable future: How leadership, entrepreneurship, and innovation shape the green transition

Chor Foon Tang and Atif Muhammad

What information do residential customers want about their electricity consumption? A choice experiment approach

Junhui Zhao and Sung-Yoon Huh

Exploring the trade-offs between household carbon emissions and welfare of China's personal carbon trading system

Xiaoying Su, Donglan Zha and Yang Cao

Governance challenges for a rapid and just solar energy transition

Abigail Martin, Siddharth Sareen, Daniel M. Kammen, Dustin Mulvaney, Ryan Stock, Jonas Meckling, Ethan Elkind, Berenice Girard, Isa Ferrall-Wolf and Samuel Miles

Putty–clay perspective on asset stickiness and stranding in China's energy transition: Quantitative assessment using a hybrid support vector regression–system dynamics model

Jianyuan Li, Mei Sun and Xiucheng Dong

Exponential AI growth and the physical limits of renewable energy systems

Mohamed Djafar Henni and Kamel Si Mohammed

From strategic hoarding to fire sales: The structural liquidity shock in China's tradable green certificate market

Huiyuan Pan, Yubao Wang and Boyang Xu

Drivers and persistence of energy poverty: An empirical analysis of country and gender heterogeneity in Spain and the Netherlands

Carlotta Masciandaro, Elisenda Jové-Llopis and Machiel Mulder

Re-evaluating procurement policies in UK small modular reactors for a just transition

Darren McCauley

Drivers of energy infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa: The roles of fiscal policy, market forces and energy pricing

Emmanuel Kwaku Manu, Bismark Asante and Isaiah Nketiah

When biomass demand exceeds supply: forward-looking spatial analysis of residential firewood use and policy implications in Hungary

Ádám Harmat, Tamás Csoknyai, Péter Kottek and Béla Munkácsy

Policy roadmap for governing new oil frontiers under environmental constraints: Lessons from Brazil's Foz do Amazonas basin

Camila Ludovique Callegari, Julia Paletta, Ana Carolina Oliveira Fiorini, Rebecca Draeger, Pedro Henrique Batista de Barros, Renan Medeiros and Alexandre Szklo

Chronic prebound energy use and multidimensional health outcomes: Evidence from public housing residents in Seoul, South Korea

Gum-Ryeong Park and Chaewon Yang

Research on the impact of climate risk attention on enterprise energy efficiency

Weihui Song

Do fossil fuel subsidies hinder renewable energy consumption? Evidence from selected emerging and developing economies

Dogan Barak

Reshaping the solar PV supply chain: Adaptive network evolution driven by synergistic green policy portfolios

Wenli Yang and Yaoqun Zheng

Reluctant to respond: Public attitudes towards dynamic pricing in Austria

Fouad El Gohary, Nina Hampl and Cajsa Bartusch

Who adopts and Where? Spatial diffusion of retrofit technologies under supplier-obligation and market-led incentives in Scotland

Sahar Mirzaie and Hossein Radmard

Keep it local vs. financial benefits: Compensation payments through cost savings in renewable energy provision for green hydrogen production in Germany

Johannes Buchner, Klaus Menrad and Thomas Decker

Impact of changes of allocation and price in emission trading scheme on the electricity market: Korean case study

Jungmin Lim, Seongjun Lee, Taeyoung Jin and Dowon Kim

Clean energy transition in residential heating: Policy advocacy and spillover effects

Lin Zhu, Hua Liao, Jingwen Wu, Xiaokun Wang and Yike Liu

Geopolitical conflict, military capability, and energy market stability: Evidence from the Israel–Hamas conflict

Naif Alsagr, Rizky Yudaruddi̇n, İbrahim Halil Ekşi̇ and Nuri Hacıevliyagil

Aging and energy transition in rural China: Micro-level evidence from Shaanxi

Heyan Tang, Hui Mao and Yuanyuan Cai

Carbon emission trading scheme, induced technological change, and green innovation: Evidence from listed companies in China

Maogang Tang, Weibiao Ma and Shuai Shao

Greener cities, cleaner homes: Evaluating the effect of China's low-carbon city pilot policy on urban household energy consumption structure

Yunchang Wang, Yanjun Ren, Jieyu Yang, Mi Zhou and Qiran Zhao

Electricity tariff reforms and household price elasticity in Azerbaijan: Key policy implications

Shahin Maharramli, Shahriyar Nasirov and Santiago Budría

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: the end of 32 years of UK Energy Efficiency Obligations

Ewan Archer-Brown and Jan Rosenow

Barriers to cost-effective solar deployment: the role of non-hardware factors in South Korea

Yenjae Chang and Heesun Jang

Solar microgrids at the grid edge: Long-term economic impacts of grid integration in rural Bangladesh

Christian Zürpel and Sebastian Groh

Perspectives on nuclear power

Jens Weibezahn, Björn Steigerwald, Arman Aghahosseini, Christian von Hirschhausen, Mark Z. Jacobson and Christian Breyer

Combined simulation and optimization framework to quantify the impact of policy tools in agents’ decision making in the transition towards a low carbon energy system

Manuel Sánchez Diéguez, Klara Schure, Robert Koelemeijer, Jos Sijm and André Faaij

Geopolitical risk and energy transition: Financial and regional interdependencies in Europe

Olivier Joseph Abban, Khaled Guesmi and Florian Marcel Nuta

Institutional logics in China's rural solar transition and their impacts on energy justice for vulnerable communities

Zhaoyang Xu, Lei Zhu, KuoRay Mao and Yongji Xue

Why piecemeal is not enough: a technological innovation systems analysis of residential demand response in Great Britain and the case for a strategic coordinated approach

Anca-Elena Mihalache

Synergizing air pollutant and carbon emission reductions in urban road passenger transport: The role of mitigation policies

Fei Wu, Yizhou Liao, Zhengnan Zheng, Shiyang Wang, Hui Ye and Qunwei Wang

Scarcity-era large-load interconnection governance: Reliability enablement, lifecycle tail risk, and benchmarking safeguards

Mohamed Shamseldein

Compensated centralization: Renewable energy permitting and host community benefits in New York

Lina Moe

The impact of the EU-ETS2 on prices and welfare in the European Union

Maria Markaki, Theocharis Marinos, Yannis Sarafidis, Elena Georgopoulou and Sevastianos Mirasgedis

Urban cooling effects of China’ s low-carbon city policy: Causal evidence from satellite-derived urban heat islands

Haoxiang Zhao, Jiawei Liu, Tingting Bai, Xiangbin Peng, Yuan Yuan, Run Shi and Yuanzheng Cui

Does the scope for interpretation risk undermining the Energy Efficiency First Principle's ambition?

Frederic Berger, Tim Mandel, Niklas Reinfandt and Wolfgang Eichhammer

On-grid energy communities in Latin America: Institutional barriers and enabling conditions for a sustainable transition

Jorge-Andrés Polanco and Gabriel García-Martínez

Stochastic convergence of emissions in the EU: Nonlinear dynamics, structural shifts, and implications for climate policy harmonization

Mübariz Hasanlı

The electrifying moment? Electric vehicles and the rural-urban divide in Germany and the U.S

Kayla M. Gabehart and Christoph H. Stefes

Evaluation of household electricity cost burden under Japan's green transformation

Ziyi Zhou, Liqiao Huang, Xiaodan Shen, Nan Wang, Yoshikuni Yoshida and Yin Long

European market integration and price convergence: A panel quantile regression analysis of NordLink

Endre Bjørndal, Mette Bjørndal, Isabel Hovdahl and Kyriaki Tselika