Energy Policy

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Volume 216, issue C, 2026

The global policy landscape of ISO 50001 energy management systems

Francisco Luis Moreno, Heidi Fuchs, William Miller and Peter Therkelsen

Fossil lock-in, resource dependence, and energy transition policy in the Global South

Simona Bigerna, Tulia Gattone and Cosimo Magazzino

Energy poverty, temperature extremes and early childhood development in MENA

Vladimir Hlasny, Yasmine Abdelfattah and Shireen AlAzzawi

Country-specific pathways in Europe's and China's biogas transitions: Technology maturity, policy architecture, and techno-economic performance

Yu Shang, Tingting Zhao, Siyao Yang, Zhaoyi Xu and Wei Liu

Policy instrument mix and sustainability pathways for battery energy storage systems: An empirical analysis of East Asia

Jun Wang, Ming Li, Zonglin Li and Yan Liu

Energy poverty convergence in a fragmented world: Multidimensional evidence from non-OECD countries

Simona Bigerna and Silvia Micheli

Editorial: Next level of security of supply: a resilience strategy for the energy transition

Patrick Jochem, Cordula Kropp and Kai Hufendiek

From diesel to biomass: A strategic policy shift for reducing energy poverty in off-grid Colombia

Carlos A. Díaz González and Felipe Henao

Watt's the price of keeping the lights on? Natural disasters and willingness to pay for reliable electricity

Gail J. Buttorff, Yuhsin Annie Hsu, Yewande Olapade, María P. Perez Arguelles, Pablo M. Pinto, Savannah L. Sipole, Agustín Vallejo and M.C. Sunny Wong

Green bonds, climate resilience, and environmental performance: A global panel analysis of sustainable finance effectiveness

Muhammad Alamgir and Magdalena Osińska

Evolution and drivers of CO2 and carbon intensity in Malaysia

Bin Su, Junyi He and Yingzhu Li

Who pays for rooftop solar? Cost shifts, stakeholder perspectives and policy tensions in South Africa

Josh A. Dippenaar and Bernard Bekker

Does the energy transition law mark a turning point in France's path toward Greener development?

Salma Mefteh-Wali and Samia Nasreen

Privacy, informed consent and the demand for anonymisation of smart meter data

Saurab Chhachhi and Fei Teng

Lithium isotope enrichment for fusion power: challenges and opportunities for the UK

Lauren J. Dackombe-Rodrigues, Philip Hannah, Nick Tomkinson and Kathryn George

Green illusions, enduring poverty: How geopolitical fragmentation fuels greenwashing and derails the just energy transition in the global South

Ping Chen

Can educational and policy interventions enhance EV adoption in Vietnam? Consumer insights

Ha Thanh Tung Nguyen, Alexandr Akimov and Nguyen Van Tran

Renewable energy installation as a catalyst for sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural growth in Kenya

Peter Situma Masibayi, Scholastica Achieng Odhiambo and Nelson Obange

Demand-side management in the Western Energy Imbalance Market: Efficiency without equity?

Marissa Greer and Matthew Fry

Identification of barriers to decarbonise the German steel industry as a basis for a feasibility assessment

Robin König, Thomas Pregger, Stefan Kronshage and Patrick Jochem

Does U.S.-China trade war exacerbate energy poverty? Evidence from Chinese households

Ziqi Chu, Haodan Tang and Morris Ming Liu

The positive effect of monetary social reciprocity on energy poverty reduction in rural Chinese households

Meijie Wu and Zhiwen Li

Beyond the universal decision maker: renovation policy for decarbonizing energy systems and reducing energy poverty

Cédric Terrier, Ziqian Wang, Oliver Banovic, Jonathan Parrat, Florinel Radu, Dorsan Lepour and François Maréchal

Carrots and sticks in the renewable energy transition: How policy synergy drives enterprise digital transformation

Mingtao Zhao, Wu Chen, Lianbiao Cui, Fangzhi Li, Huanming Zhang and Xuebao Fu

The financial risks of delays in nuclear waste disposal: A stochastic analysis of Germany’s waste fund KENFO

Mahdi Awawda and Alexander Wimmers

The trade route to renewables: Import as a catalyst for the diffusion of renewable energy technology

Atonu Rabbani and Faisal Quaiyyum

Cognitive bias can depend on eco-label design: Evidence from a negative footprint illusion in energy labeled household appliances

Patrik Sörqvist and Emil Skog

Explaining attitudes towards nuclear energy in Italy: disentangling key drivers in a joint framework

Carmen Aina, Eliana Baici and Samuele Poy

Competing energy futures: Industrial policy, energy markets, and the global implications of Biden's IRA and Trump's 2025 fossil-fuel strategy

Stuart P.M. Mackintosh and Thierry Warin

Rethinking India's vehicle scrappage policy: A lifecycle energy and policy effectiveness perspective

Gaurav Gupta and Anoop Singh

The ladder of citizen participation and social acceptance in nuclear power projects: Evidence from Ningde, China

Jiabin Chen, Xianbao Ye, Qianqian Zhou, Bo Xia, Martin Skitmore and Yong Liu

Exploring the role of financial complexity, green technology, and renewable energy in ecological footprint reduction: An empirical analysis of BRICS countries

Xulong Dai and LiYa Gao

An energy scenario for Japan towards 2040: Focused on efficiency improvements and renewable energy

Kae Takase, Seiichiro Kimura, Yuko Nishida, Tetsuo Saito and Tatsuya Wakeyama

Trade-offs in justice-oriented grid expansions

Diego Hincapié-Ossa, Aashma Upreti, Jeffrey M. Bielicki, Kelsea Best and Daniel B. Gingerich

UK Government support for nuclear power compared with that of tidal lagoons

Duncan Allsopp

Blue hydrogen and U.S. tax credit policy: An economic assessment of 45Q and 45V incentives under a changing federal policy

Damilola Adebayo, John Flake, Anurag Mandalika, Siddhartha Narra and Gregory Upton

China's rural energy transition: A blueprint for sustainable revitalization

Feng Xu, Guangqing Chi, Chenyujing Yang, Qiuping Bai and Yang Xu

Energy poverty and wealth under economic and energy policy uncertainty

Sonia Hassan and Muhammad Haris

Industrial decarbonization in a fragmented world: Carbon pricing with border adjustments using standardized values

Karsten Neuhoff, Misato Sato, Fernanda Ballesteros, Christoph Böhringer, Simone Borghesi, Aaron Cosbey, Thibault Deletombe, Balázs Felsmann, Roland Ismer, Angus Johnston, Pedro Linares, Sini Matikainen, Stefan Pauliuk, Alice Pirlot, Philippe Quirion, Knut Einar Rosendahl, Aleksander Sniegocki, Harro van Asselt and Lars Zetterberg

Health effects of fuel transitions in India: Evidence from panel data

Mehtabul Azam

Economic and technical analysis of photovoltaic systems in the context of emissions trading system 2 – a case study for Poland

Kamil Nawrocki, Alina Matuszak-Flejszman and Alfred Błaszczyk

Beyond access: Income, housing, and the persistence of energy poverty in Nepal

Alberto Egea, Ruth Herrero-Martín, Durgaprasad Bhandari, Efthimios Zervas and Alberto García

A typology of government strategies for renewable energy investments in Africa: A comparative analysis of Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, and South Africa

Uduak S. Akpan

Prospective environmental impact of solar energy communities in a decarbonised grid: insights from consequential life cycle analysis

Diana Neves, Sebastião Líbano Monteiro, Joana Portugal-Pereira and Paulo Ferrão

Does FDI turn ‘Dirtier’ at higher growth levels? Evidence from non-linearities and threshold effects

Ibrahim Ayoade Adekunle, Shakirudeen Taiwo, Josine Uwilingiye and Olalekan Aworinde

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