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Beyond promises: Realities of climate finance justice and energy transitions in Asia and the PacificAnantharajah, Kirsty (author), Setyowati, A.B. (author)Climate change is already having substantial adverse impacts across the globe, and these are projected to worsen dramatically in years to come without rapid and far-reaching measures to transition to low carbon development. Crucially, massive financial investment will be necessary to fast track a low carbon transition and the level of finance...journal article 2022
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ten Caat, P.N. (author), Graamans, L.J.A. (author), Tenpierik, M.J. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author)The municipality of Amsterdam has set stringent carbon emission reduction targets: 55% by 2030 and 95% by 2050 for the entire metropolitan area. One of the key strategies to achieve these goals entails a disconnection of all households from the natural gas supply by 2040 and connecting them to the existing city-wide heat grid. This paper aims to...journal article 2021
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Fouladvand, J. (author), Aranguren Rojas, Maria (author), Hoppe, T. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author)Energy communities are key elements for local energy transitions, collectively generating, distributing and consuming energy, using renewable energy technologies. Thermal energy communities, as one type of energy community, are focused on thermal energy applications, such as heating, cooling, bathing, showering and providing hot tap water. As...journal article 2021
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Virla, Luis D. (author), van de Ven, Dirk Jan (author), Sampedro, Jon (author), van Vliet, Oscar (author), Smith, Alistair (author), Pollitt, Hector (author), Della Santina, C. (author)Local perspectives can conflict with national and international climate targets. This study explores three stakeholder (community, provincial, and federal) perspectives on the Alberta oil sands as risks for a sustainability transition in Canada. In an ex-post analysis, we compared outputs from stakeholder consultations and energy-economy...journal article 2021
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Zhao, H. (author), Kamp, L.M. (author), Lukszo, Z. (author)Green ammonia production as an important application for propelling the upcoming hydrogen economy has not been paid much attention by China, the world's largest ammonia producer. As a result, related studies are limited. This paper explores potential supply chain design and planning strategies of green ammonia production in the next decade of...journal article 2021
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Oorschot, L.M. (author), Asselbergs, M.F. (author)For a moment, it seemed that the architect had disappeared from the construction supply chain for sustainable and affordable housing provided by Dutch housing associations. Large contractors were making direct agreements with housing associations and wanted to scale up production with their housing factories. However, with the ‘So You Think You...journal article 2021
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Simhachalam, V. (author), Wang, T. (author), Liu, Y. (author), Wamelink, J.W.F. (author), Montenegro, Lorena (author), Van Gorp, Geert (author)The Paris Agreement requires building retrofitting practices to be more efficient and effective. However, the current practice for building energy retrofitting is lacking behind, and one reason for that is the time-consuming process of energy credit evaluation. Energy performance assessment such as BREEAM-NL in the Netherlands could apply a more...journal article 2021
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van Geenhuizen, M.S. (author), Nejabat, R. (author)Municipalities are increasingly involved in energy transition planning. There are, however, doubts about whether municipalities are an adequate organization and scale level for this. In this context, the article aims to picture developments of local young technology firms in bringing energy inventions to market, in particular, how municipalities...journal article 2021
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Mouter, N. (author), Shortall, R.M. (author), Spruit, S. (author), Itten, A.V. (author)To achieve a successful energy transition, it is vital to integrate citizens’ needs into government policies through participatory processes. However, offline participatory approaches can be overly intensive which leads to an over-representation of citizens who think that the issue is in their immediate interest. Hence, elected officials often...journal article 2021
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Itten, A.V. (author), Sherry-Brennan, Fionnguala (author), Hoppe, T. (author), Meenakshi Sundaram, A. (author), Devine-Wright, Patrick (author)Providing heat is a key aspect of social life and a necessity for comfort and health in cold climates. Even though heat accounts for a large proportion of worldwide carbon emissions and is the largest energy end-use, it has remained largely untouched by efforts to decarbonize. Efforts to do so meet significant economic, social-psychological,...journal article 2021
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Hoicka, Christina E. (author), Das, Runa R. (author), Zhao, Yuxu (author), McMaster, Maria Louise (author), Lieu, J. (author), Wyse, Susan (author)The rapid diffusion of demand-side low-carbon innovations has been identified as a key strategy for maintaining average global temperature rise at or below 1.5 °C. Diffusion research tends to focus on a single sector, or single technology case study, and on a small scope of factors that influence innovation diffusion. This paper describes a...journal article 2021
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Hauser, S.J. (author), Zhu, P. (author), Mehan, A. (author)Since the 1860s, petroleum companies, through their influence on local governments, port authorities, international actors and the general public gradually became more dominant in shaping the urban form of ports and cities. Under their development and pressure, the relationships between industrial and urban areas in port cities hosting oil...journal article 2021
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Diran, D.D.D. (author), Hoppe, T. (author), Ubacht, J. (author), Slob, Adriaan (author), Blok, K. (author)The transition towards low-carbon thermal energy systems requires solid information provision to support both public and private decision-making, which is future proof and optimal in the context of the system dependencies. We adopt a data ecosystem approach to answer the following research question: How can a data ecosystem be analyzed and...journal article 2020
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Hoppe, T. (author), Miedema, Michiel (author)Energy transition requires action from different levels of government. While the national and local level have received ample scholarly attention, thus far little attention has been paid to the regional level. This is remarkable because policy makers across Europe are wondering what governance of regional transition actually is and how to...journal article 2020
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Bernards, Raoul (author), van Westering, W.H.P. (author), Morren, Johan (author), Slootweg, Han (author)The energy transition poses a challenge for the electricity distribution network design as new energy technologies cause increasing and uncertain network loads. Traditional static load models cannot cope with the stochastic nature of this new technology adoption. Furthermore, traditional nonlinear power methods have difficulty evaluating very...journal article 2020
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Scholten, D.J. (author), Bazilian, Morgan (author), Overland, Indra (author), Westphal, Kirsten (author)This policy perspective sums up the main input of four members of the Research Panel for IRENA's Global Commission on the Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation. The geographic and technical characteristics of renewable energy systems are fundamentally different from those of coal, oil, and natural gas. This has implications for interstate...journal article 2020
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Asarpota, K. (author), Nadin, V. (author)The UN Paris Agreement of November 2016 recognises the need for a ‘cleaner and more efficient energy system’ as a core policy goal to address climate change. The spatial and urban form of cities is a key factor in achieving more efficient energy production and consumption and becomes more important with rapid urbanisation across much of the...journal article 2020
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van Westering, W.H.P. (author), Hellendoorn, J. (author)By installing a battery storage system in the power grid, Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) can solve congestion problems caused by decentralized renewable generation. This paper provides the necessary theory to use such a community battery for grid congestion reduction, backed up by experimental results. A simple network model was...journal article 2020
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Wittmayer, Julia M. (author), de Geus, Tessa (author), Pel, Bonno (author), Avelino, Flor (author), Hielscher, Sabine (author), Hoppe, T. (author), Mühlemeier, Susan (author), Stasik, Agata (author), de Vries, G. (author)Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes, participatory governance approaches to energy questions, or new discourses. Its significance for energy systems is often considered in narrow instrumentalist terms,...journal article 2020
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Galeano Galvan, M.J. (author), Cuppen, E.H.W.J. (author), Taanman, Mattijs (author)The agency of incumbents has gained increasing attention in the study of transitions. Recent studies show that besides being inert and resistant to change, incumbents can also support transitions. We focus on the agency of a particular type of incumbent, grid operators. In several countries, these actors play an active role in institutional...journal article 2020