A series of weaknesses in creativity, research design, and quality of writing continue to
handicap energy social science. Many studies ask uninteresting research questions, make …

Declining production from conventional oil resources has initiated a global transition to
unconventional oil, such as tar sands. Unconventional oil is generally harder to extract than …

A novel methodology is developed to dynamically assess the energy and material
investments required over time to achieve the transition from fossil fuels to renewable …

Since the Pennsylvania oil rush of 1859, petroleum has quickly become the dominant fuel of
industrial society. The “Peak Oil” debate focused on whether or not there was an impending …

Governments in countries across the world increasingly adopt the “green growth” discourse
to underline their ambition for the greening of their economies. The central tenet of this …

A diversity of integrated assessment models (IAMs) coexists due to the different approaches
developed to deal with the complex interactions, high uncertainties and knowledge gaps …

Looking ahead to 2050 many countries intend to utilise wind as a prominent energy source.
Predicting a realistic maximum yield of onshore and offshore wind will play a key role in …

Abstract The Glasgow Climate Pact articulated the vital importance of renewables in
reducing emissions on the way to net-zero pledges. During the power sector transition …

The biophysical foundations of socio-economic systems are underrepresented in the vast
majority of macroeconomic models. This lack is particularly troublesome when considering …

Whether renewable energy sources (RES) will provide sufficient energy surplus to entirely
power complex modern societies is under discussion. We contribute to this debate by …