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Zapata Arango, Mateo (author), Hoppe, T. (author), Itten, A.V. (author), Blok, K. (author)Background<br/>At the COP21, cities were recognised as key actors in combatting climate change. In supporting cities, climate city networks such as transnational climate networks (TCNs) and national climate networks (NCNs) have emerged to enable cities in building capacities and formulating climate policy whilst also encouraging citizen...journal article 2024
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López Prol, Javier (author), de Llano Paz, Fernando (author), Calvo-Silvosa, Anxo (author), Pfenninger, Stefan (author), Staffell, Iain (author)Climate change and geopolitical risks call for the rapid transformation of electricity systems worldwide, with Europe at the forefront. Wind and solar are the lowest cost, lowest risk, and cleanest energy sources, but their variability poses integration challenges. Combining both technologies and integrating regions with dissimilar generation...journal article 2024
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Gürsan, C. (author), de Gooyert, V. (author), de Bruijne, M.L.C. (author), Raaijmakers, J. (author)District heating systems are considered a feasible heating alternative to replace natural gas to mitigate emissions in cities. However, urban transitions are very complex because energy systems often operate in densely populated areas, which gives rise to all kinds of interdependencies in cities. These interdependencies can result in...journal article 2024
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Onencan, A. M. (author), Ou, J. (author), de Koning, J.I.J.C. (author)The Netherlands Climate Change Agreement aims to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and seismic events by halting natural gas usage by 2050. This will require widespread societal acceptance by 90% of households. The study investigates the social acceptance of a district heating network (DHN) among social housing tenants in Haarlem, Netherlands....journal article 2024
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Blom, T. (author), Jenkins, Andrew (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author)The urban energy transition requires innovative heating and cooling systems, as well as enhanced flexibility in electricity usage. This paper explores the theoretical potential for vertical farms to contribute to the energy transition by supplying residual heat to local district heat networks and flexible electricity usage. A stepped approach...journal article 2024
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Jangda, Zaid (author), Menke, Hannah (author), Busch, Andreas (author), Geiger, S. (author), Bultreys, Tom (author), Singh, Kamaljit (author)Subsurface porous rocks hold significant hydrogen (H<sub>2</sub>) storage potential to support an H<sub>2</sub>-based energy future. Understanding H<sub>2</sub> flow and trapping in subsurface rocks is crucial to reliably evaluate their storage efficiency. In this work, we perform cyclic H<sub>2</sub> flow visualization experiments on a...journal article 2024
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Hubert, Naomi D. (author), Biely, Katharina (author), Kamp, L.M. (author), de Vries, G. (author)The installation of solar panels by residential households is vital for the energy transition. However, the rapid uptake of solar panels by households leads to congestion in the electricity grid. Specifically, when the sun shines, these solar panels simultaneously produce a lot of electricity that is fed into the grid, which is inefficient and...journal article 2024
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Okur, Ö. (author), Fiori, Francesco (author), Fouladvand, Javanshir (author)Renewable heating systems (RHS), such as solar thermal, geothermal, heat pumps, wood pellets, biomass, are essential to reduce dependence on fossil fuel-based heating systems and resulting CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. Despite their benefits in terms of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, the widespread adoption of RHS has yet to be achieved. This paper...journal article 2024
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Meenakshi Sundaram, A. (author), Goncalves, J. E. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Verma, T. (author)Governments often use price-based policies such as tax-subsidies and rebates to encourage households to shift to renewable energy sources like rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV). These policies, however, have primarily benefited high-income homeowners, leaving others behind. This paper proposes leveraging social networks’ influence on attitudes...journal article 2024
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Visser, Vivian (author), van Popering-Verkerk, Jitske (author), Minkman, E. (author), van Buuren, Arwin (author)In their quest to create vital cities, West European city governments stimulate citizens to self-organize in citizens' initiatives. This trend it accompanied by conflicting scientific and governmental discourses: on the one hand, citizens' initiatives are praised for giving ‘power to the people’, on the other hand, citizens' initiatives are...journal article 2023
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Croon, T.M. (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author), Dalla Longa, F. (author), Mulder, Peter (author)Recent energy price spikes have led to increased energy poverty among low-income households living in inefficient homes. Accurate statistics on energy poverty help inform resource allocation and better target relief schemes and retrofit funds. Existing indicators are predominantly defined in terms of a headcount ratio – the share of population...journal article 2023
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van der Koogh, M.L. (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), Heller, Reneé (author), Lukszo, Z. (author)Electric vehicles have penetrated the Dutch market, which increases the potential for decreased local emissions, the use and storage of sustainable energy, and the roll-out and use of electric car-sharing business models. This development also raises new potential issues such as increased electricity demand, a lack of social acceptance, and...journal article 2023
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Kraaijvanger, C.W. (author), Verma, T. (author), Doorn, N. (author), Goncalves, J. E. (author)With technological advances and decreasing prices, solar energy is a key technology in the urban energy transition. However, the focus on increasing the overall installed capacity has overshadowed energy justice considerations, leading to inequalities in solar energy adoption. This paper adopts an equity perspective to analyse the transition...journal article 2023
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Eitan, Avri (author), Fischhendler, Itay (author), van Marrewijk, A.H. (author)The energy transition process nowadays is characterized by the replacement of fossil fuels-based means of production with renewable energy (RE). Alongside the diffusion of decentralized RE, this process is associated with the increased promotion of RE megaprojects. Such megaprojects, however, are often shaped by path-dependent lock-ins and thus...journal article 2023
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van Wees, Mark (author), Revilla, Beatriz Pineda (author), Fitzgerald, Helena (author), Ahlers, Dirk (author), Romero Herrera, N.A. (author), Alpagut, Beril (author), Kort, Joke (author), Tjahja, Cyril (author), Smit, Sander (author)It is commonly assumed by the projects demonstrating concepts for positive energy districts in cities across Europe that citizens want and need to be involved in the development of these concepts as an essential condition for positive energy districts to be deployed successfully and to achieve the expected societal goals. Six different...journal article 2022
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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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Setyowati, A.B. (author), Quist, J.N. (author)Transitioning to low carbon energy involves policies, institutions, and actors across different scales of governance. Indonesia's aspiration for a transition to low carbon energy is occurring in the dynamics of the re-scaling of environmental governance through decentralization processes. This article examines the interplays of actors at the...journal article 2022
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Correljé, A. (author), Pesch, U. (author), Cuppen, Eefje (author)In this paper, we take inspiration from original institutional economics (OIE) as an approach to study value change within the highly complex assembly of sociotechnical transformations that make up the energy transition. OIE is examined here as a suitable perspective, as it combines Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy and a methodological...journal article 2022
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Stolper, Louis Cornelis (author), Bergsma, J.M. (author), Pruyn, J.F.J. (author)The energy transition of Dutch shipping is a complex gradual process due to the variety in vessels, cost and lifetime of assets, uncertainty, additional costs of climate-neutral alternatives and required regulatory changes. This paper aims to create a holistic overview of both the transition barriers and enablers. A focus is placed on the...journal article 2022
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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