Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation

BK Sovacool - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
This study critically examines 20 years of geography and political ecology literature on the
energy justice implications of climate change mitigation. Grounded in an expert guided …

A review on overall control of DC microgrids

J Kumar, A Agarwal, V Agarwal - Journal of energy storage, 2019 - Elsevier
Due to inherent advantages of DC system over AC system such as compatibility with
renewable energy sources, storage devices and modern loads, Direct Current Microgrid …

On the history and future of 100% renewable energy systems research

C Breyer, S Khalili, D Bogdanov, M Ram… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research on 100% renewable energy systems is a relatively recent phenomenon. It was
initiated in the mid-1970s, catalyzed by skyrocketing oil prices. Since the mid-2000s, it has …

[HTML][HTML] The decarbonisation divide: contextualizing landscapes of low-carbon exploitation and toxicity in Africa

BK Sovacool, A Hook, M Martiskainen, A Brock… - Global Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Much academic research on low-carbon transitions focuses on the diffusion or use of
innovations such as electric vehicles or solar panels, but overlooks or obscures downstream …

[HTML][HTML] Towards improved solar energy justice: Exploring the complex inequities of household adoption of photovoltaic panels

BK Sovacool, ML Barnacle, A Smith, MC Brisbois - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar energy, including household and community based solar photovoltaic panels, is the
fastest growing source of low-carbon electricity worldwide, and it could become the single …

Spatial justice and the land politics of renewables: Dispossessing vulnerable communities through solar energy mega-projects

K Yenneti, R Day, O Golubchikov - Geoforum, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper considers aspects of spatial justice in the processes of land acquisition for large-
scale solar energy projects in the developmentalist context of India. It explores the case of …

An energy justice index for the energy transition in the global South

M Apergi, L Eicke, A Goldthau, M Hashem… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
In order to avoid dangerous climate change and to satisfy the global energy needs energy
systems have to change. Hopes are especially high in countries of the Global South for the …

Energy justice in the developing world: a review of theoretical frameworks, key research themes and policy implications

M Lacey-Barnacle, R Robison, C Foulds - Energy for Sustainable …, 2020 - Elsevier
Energy justice, building on foundations within both the field of environmental justice and
wider justice scholarship, has grown rapidly as a research field over recent years. However …

Volatile photovoltaics: green industrialization, sacrifice zones, and the political ecology of solar energy in Germany

A Brock, BK Sovacool, A Hook - Annals of the American …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The development of solar energy has been depicted as a paradigmatic break in
unsustainable global growth, largely because it is framed as an innovation with minimal …

Energy justice: A policy approach

K Jenkins, D McCauley, A Forman - Energy Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
The world is set to invest over $300 trillion in renewable, fossil fuels and nuclear energy in
the next ten to twenty years (Stern et al., 2016). Over three quarters of this total is estimated …