Concern about carbon has led to China's energy transition and dedication to large-scale
renewable energy projects. Handling energy transition problems and implementing energy …

Although social acceptance research has blossomed over the last decade, interdisciplinary
studies combining market, socio-political and community aspects are scarce. We propose a …

Given the growing frequency, severity, and salience of social mobilization and community
action on energy and climate issues, in this study we systematically explore the …

Governments, namely in the global North, are fostering the deployment of large‐scale low
carbon and associated energy infrastructures (EIs), such as power lines, to mitigate climate …

Smart grids are promoted as promising pathways for dealing with new grid challenges that
have arisen by the introduction of renewable energies. In Germany, increasing shares of …

The term smart grid (SG) has been widely used in both the United States (US) and Canada
to represent multiple visions and configurations of electricity system change. In both …

This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue on smart grids and the social
sciences. There is currently a discourse of very high ambitions and anticipation regarding …

Recent socio-political events-such as Brexit-have provoked discussion and uncertainties
about the future of the European Union, including European sustainable energy transitions …

In recent years the processes of stakeholder involvement in power line development
projects raised a critique of inflexible decision-making processes and calls for new …

Background The paper explores how regional actors engage with energy systems, flows
and infrastructures in order to meet particular goals and offers a fine-tuned analysis of how …