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  1. Policy makers seek to understand the trade-offs needed between economic growth and climate change. This provides the context to explore low-carbon development (LCD) pathways for the West African electricity sy...

    Authors: Abiodun Suleiman Momodu, Ahmad Addo, John-Felix Kayode Akinbami and Yacob Mulugetta

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2017 7:11

    Content type: Original article

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  2. Increasing energy demands on farm households in Ethiopia have escalated challenges related to land degradation, indoor air quality, and rural economic development. Soil deterioration followed by reduced carbon...

    Authors: Melaku Berhe, Dana Hoag, Girmay Tesfay and Catherine Keske

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2017 7:10

    Content type: Original article

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  5. Renewable energy resources show variabilities at different characteristic time scales. For a given resource and demand pro le, there is an absolute maximum achievable coverage (when limiting the fraction of en...

    Authors: H. Abos, M. Ave and H. Martínez-Ortiz

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2017 7:7

    Content type: ORIGINAL ARTICLE

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  7. This study reviews energy policy evaluation approaches on their capability to estimate a successful implementation of renewable energy policies. This is predominantly done via energy system modeling and analys...

    Authors: Thomas Horschig and Daniela Thrän

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2017 7:5

    Content type: Review

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  8. The transition towards a renewable based power system in Germany largely depends on variable renewable energy sources (vRES) like wind power and solar PV. Their high variability over time poses new challenges ...

    Authors: Philip Tafarte, Christiane Hennig, Martin Dotzauer and Daniela Thrän

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2017 7:3

    Content type: Original article

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  10. Renewable energy (RE) production is a land-use driver with increasing impact on landscape configuration and a matter of controversial debate. Woody biomass cropping provides an opportunity to interlink RE supp...

    Authors: Gerald Busch

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2017 7:2

    Content type: Original article

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  11. In response to climate change, the limited availability of fossil fuels and the risks associated with nuclear energy, Germany’s energy transition aims to achieve a sustainable, environmentally sound supply of ...

    Authors: Christine Rösch, Klaus-Rainer Bräutigam, Jürgen Kopfmüller, Volker Stelzer and Patrick Lichtner

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2017 7:1

    Content type: Original article

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  12. This article entails an innovative approach to smart grid technology implementation, as it connects governance research with legal analysis. We apply the empirico-legal ‘ILTIAD framework’, which combines Elino...

    Authors: Imke Lammers and Michiel A. Heldeweg

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:36

    Content type: Original article

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  14. We analyse Gordon’s trade-off by adapting Thurow’s approach of pure public good using the example of the German energy sector which is in a transition process to a low-carbon sustainable energy system (Energie...

    Authors: Holger Schlör, Wolfgang Fischer and Jürgen-Friedrich Hake

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:34

    Content type: Original article

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  16. Mainly based on expanding the grid, Chile has reached an impressive electrification rate. However, due to unviable grid expansion to islands and remote areas of the country, the government started implementing...

    Authors: Sarah Feron, Harald Heinrichs and Raul R. Cordero

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:32

    Content type: Original Article

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  17. Three groups of stakeholders are mainly involved in the planning, assessment, and approval processes for wind parks: the planners, the public, and the responsible public authorities. These groups have varying ...

    Authors: Vendula Betakova, Jiri Vojar and Petr Sklenicka

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:31

    Content type: Original Article

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  18. Biogas plays a worthwhile role as a renewable, storable energy source. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is the core process in biogas production. The two most common process upsets that occur during this biotechnologi...

    Authors: Lucie Moeller and Andreas Zehnsdorf

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:30

    Content type: Original article

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  19. Availability of reliable energy supply plays a critical role in the social, economic, and cultural transformation of society. The Uganda electricity sector has suffered long standing supply side constraints th...

    Authors: Geofrey Okoboi and Joseph Mawejje

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:29

    Content type: Original article

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  20. The banana pseudo-stem is a low-lignin-content lignocellulosic biomass that can be used for methane production. In recent years, anaerobic digestion (AD) of dried banana stems for methane production has attrac...

    Authors: Chao Li, Gangjin Liu, Ivo A. Nges, Liangwei Deng, Mihaela Nistor and Jing Liu

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:27

    Content type: Original article

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  21. The focus of the paper is on scenario studies that examine energy systems. This type of studies is usually based on formal energy models, from which energy policy recommendations are derived. In order to be va...

    Authors: Karl-Kiên Cao, Felix Cebulla, Jonatan J. Gómez Vilchez, Babak Mousavi and Sigrid Prehofer

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:28

    Content type: Original article

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  22. Nigeria’s rural coastline communities have long suffered from the consequences of both poor rural electrification and environmental degradation. Therefore, there is an urgent need to provide an optimal sustain...

    Authors: E. O. Diemuodeke, S. Hamilton and A. Addo

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:26

    Content type: Original article

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  23. Biodiversity is severely declining in intensively managed agriculture worldwide. In response, land-management strategies for biodiversity conservation on farmland are in debate, namely ecological intensificati...

    Authors: Jens Dauber and Saori Miyake

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:25

    Content type: Forum article

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  24. Due to the consequence of industrial CO2 emission, the surface temperature of Earth is rising at an alarming rate, causing accelerating deadly effects on the environment and living beings. Thus, an approach to mi...

    Authors: Md. Faruque Hossain

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:24

    Content type: Short communication

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  26. Increasing numbers of households install renewable energy production systems like photovoltaic panels thereby contributing to a more sustainable energy system. Other developments, like in-home storage or peer-...

    Authors: Sandra Bellekom, Maarten Arentsen and Kirsten van Gorkum

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:22

    Content type: Original article

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  27. The sedge mats (dyeing, weaving processes, and small-scale livestock farm at the same place) craft villages in the Mekong Delta (Vietnam) are the most popular craft villages in Vietnam, especially in the Mekon...

    Authors: Thanh Hai Le, Van Thanh Tran, Quoc Vi Le, Thi Phuong Thao Nguyen, Hans Schnitzer and Gerhart Braunegg

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:21

    Content type: Original article

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  30. The accessibility of reliable local solar resource data plays a critical role in the evaluation and development of any concentrating solar power (CSP) or photovoltaic (PV) project, impacting the areas of site ...

    Authors: Jonathan R. Raush, Terrence L. Chambers, Ben Russo and Keith Crump

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:18

    Content type: Original article

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  31. The goal of the study is to examine the general public’s understanding and perceptions of bioenergy and biofuels in North Carolina (NC) and Tennessee (TN). The study focuses on the public concerns, support and...

    Authors: Robert I. Radics, Sudipta Dasmohapatra and Stephen S. Kelley

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:17

    Content type: Original article

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  32. The huge deficiency of electricity due to heavy reliance on imported fuels has become a significant impediment to socio-economic development in Pakistan. This scenario creates an increase in local fuel prices ...

    Authors: Abdul Raheem, Sikandar Ali Abbasi, Asif Memon, Saleem R. Samo, Y. H. Taufiq-Yap, Michael K. Danquah and Razif Harun

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:16

    Content type: Review

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  33. The use of traditional energy sources such as wood, animal dung and agricultural residue by households has been in practice since time immemorial. This has however been identified as a cause of environmental p...

    Authors: Danladi Yusufu Bisu, Aondoyila Kuhe and Humphrey Aondover Iortyer

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:15

    Content type: Original article

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  34. In 2002, the province of Ontario introduced plans to ban coal in thermoelectric power production. Rural communities with a high proportion of power plant jobs (such as Atikokan, Ontario, Canada) grappled with ...

    Authors: Jason E. E. Dampier, Chander Shahi, R. Harvey Lemelin and Nancy Luckai

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:14

    Content type: Original Article

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  35. Renewable energy (RE) has been talked about for more than 30 years while there is an increased use of fossil fuels accompanied by subsequent negative environmental impacts and supply decline. This study explor...

    Authors: Joshua Sunday Riti and Yang Shu

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:13

    Content type: Original article

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Energy, Sustainability and Society 2017 7:16

  36. The last decade has seen major development and adoption of bioenergy, particularly in Germany. This has resulted in a scattering of decentralised bioenergy plants across the landscape, due to their dependency ...

    Authors: Sinéad O’Keeffe, Sandra Wochele-Marx and Daniela Thrän

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:12

    Content type: Original article

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  37. Understanding the response of nitrogen fluxes to changes in land use and agricultural practices is crucial for improving the instream water quality prediction. In central Germany, the expansion of bioenergy cr...

    Authors: Seifeddine Jomaa, Sanyuan Jiang, Daniela Thraen and Michael Rode

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:11

    Content type: Original article

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  38. To investigate the future trends of energy demand in Japan accurately, it is necessary to clarify the factors that determine the fluctuations in energy demands across regions. Specifically, it is necessary to ...

    Authors: Akihiro Otsuka

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:10

    Content type: Original article

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  39. Power generation in Ghana has gone through a number of phases: starting with diesel generators and stand-alone electricity supply systems owned by industrial mines and factories, to the hydro phase following t...

    Authors: Maame Esi Eshun and Joe Amoako-Tuffour

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:9

    Content type: Review

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  40. In the last 60 years, the scientists spent tens of billion dollars attempting to develop useful thermonuclear energy. But they cannot yet reach a stable thermonuclear reaction. They still are promising publicl...

    Authors: Alexander Bolonkin

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:8

    Content type: Original article

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  41. Energy models are used to illustrate, calculate and evaluate energy futures under given assumptions. The results of energy models are energy scenarios representing uncertain energy futures.

    Authors: Monika Culka

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:7

    Content type: Original article

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  42. Bioenergy is given an important role in reaching national and international climate change targets. However, uncertainties relating to emission reductions and the timeframe for these reductions are increasingl...

    Authors: Mirjam Röder and Patricia Thornley

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:6

    Content type: Review

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  43. An offline optimization approach based on energy storage management response in a microgrid was not fast and not reliable enough to control and adjust the system efficiently after the loss of the utility grid....

    Authors: Thongchart Kerdphol, Yaser Qudaih, Masayuki Watanabe and Yasunori Mitani

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:5

    Content type: Original article

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  45. This paper focuses on discourses of transition in the electricity system in the Irish print media, with particular attention to both the framing and the scalar referents of the debate. We characterise some of ...

    Authors: Gerard Mullally and Edmond Byrne

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:3

    Content type: Original article

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  46. The area used for bioenergy crops (annual row crops (e.g., wheat, maize), herbaceous perennial grasses, and short-rotation woody crops (e.g., poplar)) is increasing because the substitution of fossil fuels by ...

    Authors: Mehmet Senbayram, Christian Wenthe, Annika Lingner, Johannes Isselstein, Horst Steinmann, Cengiz Kaya and Sarah Köbke

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:2

    Content type: Original article

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  47. Dedicated bioenergy crops such as switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.), miscanthus [Miscanthus x giganteus (Mxg)], indiangrass [Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash], and big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii Vitman) can provid...

    Authors: Leonard C. Kibet, Humberto Blanco-Canqui, Robert B. Mitchell and Walter H. Schacht

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2016 6:1

    Content type: Original article

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  48. Improving the publics’ understanding of the energy system is a challenging task. Making citizens aware of how the complex energy system functions and how consumers of energy services can respond to a changing ...

    Authors: Huijie Li, Ilan Chabay, Ortwin Renn, Andreas Weber and Grace Mbungu

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2015 5:37

    Content type: Review

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  50. For the development of a sustainable energy system, the public’s contribution to the sustainment of the system’s current operations will become vital. The public’s role is expected to change from that of passi...

    Authors: Christian Büscher and Patrick Sumpf

    Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2015 5:34

    Content type: Original article

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