Energy Policy

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Volume 211, issue C, 2026

From hardhats to algorithms: How AI is redefining labor in China's energy industry

Tingting Sun, Rongrong Li and Qiang Wang

Rising operational costs from power outages: Implications for hydropower

Jayash Paudel

Default energy sharing rule: The case of France

Julien Jacqmin, Marco Gazel and Isac Olave-Cruz

Does targeted poverty alleviation promote the adoption of clean cooking fuels? Evidence from a quasi-experimental study in China

Lu Chen and Yingcheng Wang

Fuelling energy poverty? Evidence on the role of deforestation in developing countries

Windbeneti Arnaud Zahonogo and Relwendé Sawadogo

CCUS technology diffusion and multi-agent investment behavior under policy incentives

Yuanming Li, Bei Li, Shuangxing Liu, Ming Xue, Xingchun Li and Peng Wu

A Co-optimised framework for combined electricity and emission markets with coordinated demand response and ancillary Services: A case study of the Thai power system

Prakaipetch Muangkhiew and Keerati Chayakulkheeree

Do all roads lead to Rome? Assessing the effectiveness of governance strategies for energy justice

Kees van der Wel and Sanne Akerboom

Energy security, climate policy uncertainty, and climate transition risk: A mixed-frequency multi-dimensional spillover analysis

Xinfei Ge, Dequn Zhou, Liangpeng Wu and Qingyuan Zhu

Evaluating renewable energy pathways and emissions targets in Indonesia: An OSeMOSYS-based economic and sensitivity analysis of PLN

Maria Delavega Afriani and Stephen Poletti

How should China exit clean heating subsidies? Policy design for the post-subsidy transition

Xiaodan Guo, Bowen Xiao, Ce Jia, Jintao Gu and Shao-Chao Ma

Innovation or contraction? Unpacking the effects of carbon taxes and subsidies on emissions in Brazil

Gustavo L. Rocha Lima, Bernardo A. Furtado and Olandia F. Lopes

The role of charging infrastructure and income on electric vehicle adoption

Thomas Gifford and Edward Barbier

Promoting broad participation in CCUS system via a technical service business model and bi-level optimization with carbon trading incentives

Peng Wu, Sha Xiao, Wen Wang, Hong Wang and Shansen Wei

Good governance and energy security in OECD countries: The mediating role of environmental policy stringency

Kanchan Kumar Sen, Shamal Chandra Karmaker and Bidyut Baran Saha

Electric vehicle adoption and utilization of renewable energy in U.S.: Sensitivity analysis of electricity tariffs and emission pricing

A.H. Taheri and M.M. Ardehali

Two roads to understanding youth acceptance of energy transition policies: A symmetrical and asymmetrical perspective

Franco Sancho-Esper, Carla Rodriguez-Sanchez, María José Miquel-Romero and Francisco José Sarabia-Sánchez

Mismatch between where solar projects are proposed and approved: the case of PV acceptance in the French Alps

Caroline Bottu and Eric F. Lambin

Special economic zones and energy poverty in Africa: spillover effects beyond their initial purpose

Zhonghang Gong and Linda Zanfack Tiague

The heterogeneous impact of energy subsidy reform: The ill-targeted nature of energy subsidies in Mongolia

Tuvshintugs Batdelger and Manlaibaatar Zagdbazar

Measuring the impact of installed renewable capacity on employment

Joxe Mari Barrutiabengoa Ortubai and Rafael Ortiz Durán

Long-term evaluation of the energy consumption of 100 energy-efficient buildings in Austria

Thomas Roßkopf-Nachbaur, Günter Lang, Martin Ploß, Markus Lang, Andreas Peter, Tobias Hatt, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Souran Chatterjee and Luisa F. Cabeza

Seizing the green hydrogen opportunity? Comparing strategies for industrial transformation in latecomer countries

Fabianna Bacil, Anthony Black, Marina Domingues, Jun Jin, Rasmus Lema, Glen Robbins and Sören Scholvin

Storage at the edge: Distributed BESS as a technical and regulatory solution for Brazil's energy transition

Guilherme Luiz Susteras, Carlos Frederico Meschini Almeida and Mauricio Barbosa de Camargo Salles

Temporal stability of consumer preferences for solar Energy: A choice experiment study

Jamal Mamkhezri

Technology and policy options for achieving net zero steel manufacturing in the United States

Francis G.N. Li, Chris Bataille, Seton Stiebert, Taiba Jafari, Olexandr Balyk and James Glynn

Resolving Iran's electricity shortage crisis through integrated energy policy: A system dynamics approach

Mohammad-Mahdi Pazuki, Mohsen Salimi, Matin Karbasioun, Nasser Safaie and Majid Amidpour

How social embeddedness shapes rural rooftop solar photovoltaic adoption intention: Evidence from a large-scale behavioral study in China

Diyi Liu, Ye Yuan, Zhenni Chen and Pengwen Hou

Critical success factors for floating photovoltaic (FPV) deployment: Insights from Türkiye's renewable energy sector

Beliz Ozorhon and Nevzat Can Yerlikaya

Characterising the supply- and demand-sides of the net-zero transition to inform sectoral decarbonisation policy

Andrea Vecchi, Yimin Zhang, Dominic Davis, Ryan Jones, Simon Smart, Chris Greig and Michael Brear

Revisiting instrument choices for low-carbon transitions: Carbon tax, emission trading, and resource tax

Shiyan Wen, Yongqiang Zhang and Zhijie Jia

Unit-level stranded asset of coal power under low-carbon transition pathways toward China's carbon neutrality

Yanhua Wang, Yuning Zhang, Ke Wang, Junling Liu and Xunzhang Pan

The interaction between energy transition, pollution, recycling, and ecological footprint: Lessons from European countries

José Alberto Fuinhas, Zakir Khan, Matheus Koengkan, Hussain Muhammad Irshad and Hélde Domingos

Can Europe’s decarbonisation goals offset the merit-order effect and support renewable energy value factors?

Sumanth Yamujala, Matti Koivisto and Shubham Nayak

Analysis of California's resilience investments in disadvantaged communities: Policy recommendations for energy justice

Arvin Domier, Erlinde Cornelis and John McMillan

Volume 210, issue C, 2026

Just transition as a pathway to energy transitions in Alaska Native communities

Farah Mneimneh, Cristina Poleacovschi, Jessica Saniguq Ullrich, Scott Feinstein, Kristen Cetin and Amanda Quarshie

Reply to Schien et al. (2025) “Global datacentre electricity consumption is not correlated with data demand: Responding to implausible Assumptions and flawed modelling in castro et al.” comment on Castro et al. (2024) paper in energy policy “Digital data demand and renewable energy limits: Forecasting the impacts on global electricity supply and sustainability”

Vitor Castro, Marios Georgiou, Thomas Jackson, Ian R. Hodgkinson, Lisa Jackson and Steve Lockwood

German hydrogen import pathways: checking reality under uncertainty

Gonzalo Escribano, Juandiego Paredes-Gazquez and Enrique San-Martín González

Just sustainable energy transition: Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa security of supply

Francisca Kusi-Appiah, Halima Hussein and Elvira Dery

Dynamic effects of EU economic sanctions on the EU-Russian energy market: Evidence on crude oil and natural gas

Diana Chen, Xiaohong Yu and Eduardo Pardo-Piñashca

Decarbonizing residential space heating with heat pumps in the United States

Roxana T. Shafiee and Daniel P. Schrag

Solar irrigation and just energy transitions in agriculture: Insights from evaluation of Gujarat's SKY program

Deepak Varshney, Aditi Mukherji, Kriti Sharma, Anurag Banerjee and Alok Sikka

Community-based processes of energy poverty in indigenous communities in Mexico: The case study of Pixyah, Yucatan

O. Canto-Franco, Javier Mendoza-Vizcaino, L. San-Pedro, A. Brown, K.G. Cedano-Villavicencio, J.F. Sarmiento-Franco and M.A. Escalante Soberanis

Tariffs and the transition: A study on the effects of global trade on energy mix diversification

Gonzalo H. Soto, Manuel Zambrano-Monserrate and Ojonugwa Usman

Allocation equality of battery replacement subsidy for electric buses: Evidence from provinces and cities in China

Yanyan Tang, Zongguo Wen, Song Hu, Yaoming Li and Minyan Lu

The political economy of green industrial policy in liberal states

Bruno Arcand

Unpacking public support for nuclear energy: A twin conjoint experiment on innovative nuclear fusion and next-generation fission technologies

Merve Biten Butorac, Francesco Nicoli and Roberto Lalli

Designing robust energy policy packages under deep uncertainty: A multi-metric decision support framework

Antonio F. Rodriguez-Matas, Thomas B. Wild, Pedro Linares, Jonathan R. Lamontagne and Claudia Dominguez-Barbero

Ethanol vs. gasoline: conventional policies and the slow uptake

Magda Fontana, Laura Soares and André Suriane

Public-private partnership in energy investment and inclusive growth

Shreya Pal

Institutional reform over technical fixes: The energy waste severity index for tackling persistent inefficiency and advancing SDG 7

Antony Andrews and Sean Kimpton

Against the current: Interconnectors, public opposition and the energy trilemma

Steffen Kallbekken, Sofie Waage Skjeflo and Nina Bruvik Westberg

Optimism, pessimism, and chaos worldwide: A comparative study of energy management performance with robust benchmarking methods

Filipe Ribeiro de Almeida Farinhas, Guilherme Vara, Paulo Caldas and Diogo Cunha Ferreira

The impacts of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on international trade and policy responses: from an economic and environmental equity perspective

Muhua Li, Yan Sun, Yan Xia, Zhaofu Yang, Chuxin Chen, Yongna Yuan and Pu Wang

Pensions as hidden green levers: The impact of China's new rural pension scheme on household energy transition

Boyu Jin, Chaohui Zhou, Minjuan Zhao, Chen Zhang and Ziqing Tian

How many zones should an electricity market have? A cross-country perspective on bidding zone design

Marta Moretto and Michael G. Pollitt

Heterogeneity in policy preferences for energy renovation: Evidence from a mixed-effects ordinal model

Antonin Beringhs, Joël Wagner and Gabrielle Wanzenried

Time-varying systemic risk in electricity markets using generative adversarial networks: Market resilience and policy

Santiago Bohorquez Correa, Stephanía Mosquera-López and Jorge Uribe

Dealing with the ILUC risk of biofuel production for the energy transition

Renan Milagres L. Novaes, Marcelo Melo Ramalho Moreira, Sofia Marques Arantes, Luciane Chiodi Bachion and Thayse Aparecida Dourado Hernandes

Monetary policy shocks and day-ahead electricity markets: Insights from a “bizarre policy experiment”

Selahattin Murat Sirin and Dilek Uz

The marketization of green electricity trading and investment decisions of new energy enterprises

Boqiang Lin and Jiangnan Li

Provincial employment effects of coal mine retirement in China's carbon-neutral transition

Shiyu Li, Zanfeng Wang, Wenji Zhou, Anlan Lin and Hongtao Ren

The impact of minimum energy efficiency standards on the private rental market

Franz Fuerst, Xinyan Huang and Martin Sheppard

A multi-criteria analysis framework for hydrogen carrier evaluation in large-scale intercontinental hydrogen exports

Ruiqiu Yao, Yutao Li, Liz Varga and Yukun Hu

Modelling the technical production potential of biomethane from anaerobic digestion to decarbonise the gas grid

Camilla F. Hurst and Julian M. Allwood

Research on the participation behavior of renewable energy in China's sustainable development price settlement mechanism: An agent-based simulation analysis

Jian Han, Ying Zhou, Yuyan Weng and Junling Huang

Camelina oil for sustainable aviation fuel production: A scenario assessment for recovering European degraded soils

M. Buffi, S. Bergonzoli, E. Medina-Martos, O. Hurtig, D. Chiaramonti, F. Tozzi, A. Monti, M.G. Sessa, C. Thiel and C. Schillaci

Uncertainties in the German energy transition: detecting robust solutions under shock events in long-term transformation pathways

Gunter Grimm, Patrick Jürgens and Christoph Kost

Technology-society nexus in post-COP 27 era: How digital innovation, energy transition, and green finance drive net-zero pathways in OECD countries

Mubasher Zaman, Atta Ullah, Quande Qin and Muhammad Kashif

Barrier or driver: Patent thickets in the path of technological transition

Yishuang Liu and Hanmin Dong

Geospatial energy poverty assessment and clustering for policy prioritization

Giuliano Rancilio, Laura Campagna, Mattia Ricci, Paolo Sdringola and Marco Merlo

Geopolitical fragmentation and energy transition inequalities: Climate policy uncertainty, sanctions, and the oil and gas sector

Huan Huu Nguyen, Duc Huu Nguyen, Tam Ha Minh Nguyen and Xihui Haviour Chen

Divergent paths: A machine learning analysis of post-pandemic decarbonization trajectories and the global climate policy imperative

Solomon Evro, Moones Alamooti and Olusegun S. Tomomewo

Co-combustion of ammonia in coal-fired power plants in ASEAN

Reza Fazeli, Sophie Burgess, Llewelyn Hughes and Fiona J. Beck

How representative is SDG7 of energy poverty in politically unstable landscapes? Guiding measurement and monitoring from perceptions to realities

Sara Zaidan and Mutasem El Fadel

The evolving impact of U.S. monetary policy on real oil prices: A time-varying Granger predictability and local projections approach

Max Gillman, Emrah Çevik and Sel Dibooglu

Firewood, charcoal or electricity? Gender gaps in cooking, heating, and lighting energy use in Zambia

John N. Ng'ombe, Cleopas G. Sambo, Fafanyo Asiseh, Stephen Prah, Obed Quaicoe and Wisdom Takumah

Back to the hearth: Unraveling the triple nexus of population aging, income descent, and regressive energy transition in rural households

Wei Ouyang, Chen Liang and Yang Zhou

A new approach to assess individual contributions to energy transition goals

C. Sanz-Cuadrado, P. Rahdan, Z. Zhang, M. Victoria and A.B. Cristóbal

Do climate mitigation policies reduce within-country carbon inequality? Evidence from cross-national panel data

Xiaolan Chen, Qiuyue Xie and Xiang Cao

Inequitable efficiency: Unravelling the social and built environment drivers of London's housing energy performance

Cuicheng Zhang, Cong Cao, Pengyu Zhang, R. Michael Alvarez and Ramit Debnath

Determining the impact of future load compositions on cost-reflective tariffs and monthly electricity bills in a rural solar PV mini-grid

Milky Ali Gelchu, Jimmy Ehnberg, Dereje Shiferaw and Erik O. Ahlgren

Households’ perceptions of the efficacy of retrofit policies to boost efficient homes in Spain

Carlos Marmolejo-Duarte, Arkaitz Fullaondo-Elordui-Zapaterietxe, Felipe Encinas-Pino, Carlos Aguirre-Núñez and Paúl Espinoza-Zambrano

Understanding behavioral factors influencing EV smart charging: A mixed-method study of citizens’ capabilities, opportunities, and motivations

Janna A. de Graaf, F. Marijn Stok, John B.F. de Wit and Michèlle Bal

The digital and green transition dilemma: Is there room for everything? Insights from the next decade (2025–2035) in Aragón (Spain)

Jorge Torrubia, Alessandro Lima, Alicia Valero and Antonio Valero

From exposure to preference: How solar electrification experiences shape long-term sustainability in rural Pakistan

Marco Nilgen, Johannes Linde and Björn Vollan

The digital economy and rural household energy consumption in China

Hui Mao, Xiaoyan Zhou, Yong Fu and Congyi Dai

The crucial role of electricity bill comprehension in consumer intention of solar panel systems adoption

Cecilia Castro-Cárdenas, Edgardo Arturo Ayala Gaytán and Teofilo Ozuna

Energy policy and citizens’ perceptions: The role of PV+BES systems in driving a sustainable energy transition

Idiano D'Adamo, Simone Di Leo, Federico Fabbi, Massimo Gastaldi and Antonio Felice Uricchio

Regional dynamics of agrivoltaics adoption: Stakeholder perceptions and barriers in Maryland, USA

Jennifer D. Morash and Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman

Fuel tax loss in a world of electric mobility: A window of opportunity for congestion pricing

Thi Ngoc Nguyen and Felix Müsgens

Don't charge while you heat! The social potential for flexibility and coordination of energy-intensive technologies in single-family houses

Carolina Hiller, Hanna Björner Brauer, Magdalena Kania-Lundholm, Erik Lundberg and Therese Olsson

Solar energy transition under IMF conditionality: Distributive justice and energy policy imperative in Pakistan

Khalid Ahmed, Abdul Khalique and Bareerah Khan

Regional heterogeneity and policy evolution of China's new energy vehicle development: A multi-dimensional analysis based on dynamic time warping clustering and dual policy frameworks

Chunning Wang, Yifen Yin, Jingwen Cai and Haoqian Hu

A multi-faceted analysis of the influence of state energy policies on spatial clustering of wind and solar farms in the U.S

Anton Rozhkov and Koyel Das

Impacts of various combinations of carbon quota allocation rules on supply chains

Ping Shi, Xiaofang Lin, Lu Xiao and Song Shi

The U.S. shale energy sector navigating domestic policies in a fragmenting global economy

Valentina Galvani and Noha A. Razek

The green and brown sides of industrial robots: Innovations, AI-Driven patents, energy policy interventions, and emissions dynamics

Busra Agan Celik

Renewable energy communities and energy poverty: Social and policy insights from empirical research in Italy

Paolo Basilico, Giuliana Michela Cartanese, Idiano D'Adamo, Marco Ferrazza, Massimo Gastaldi and Antonio Felice Uricchio

Behavioral determinants of solar energy adoption in India: Insights for policy from an extended TPB framework

Kailash Kumar Sahu, Tushar Ranjan Sahoo, Indu Santosh, Shivani Guru and Rishi Kant Chaudhary

When energy transitions drive polarization: Narratives of green energy and mitigation strategies by proponents and opponents of geothermal energy developments in Indonesia

Jonathan Davis Smith, Martha Hesty Susilowati, Samsul Maarif and Eko Cahyono

Microgrid policy regulation in California and Oregon – A comparative state review

Maham Furqan and Hilary Boudet

Internet use propels cleaner cooking adoption and health gains in rural China

Hui Xu, Xinpu Wang and Dawei Zhang

Shifting roles of renewable and fossil energy in the ENTSO-E countries: Evidence from a novel war-induced energy intensity index

Guanghao Wang, Hung Xuan Do, Chenghao Liu, Erwann Sbai and Emilson Silva