The Renewable Energy Transition and “the People” – Exploring the Intersections of Right-wing Populism and the Renewable Energy Transition in Portuguese Media Discourses

Green financing role on renewable energy dependence and energy transition in E7 economies

Renewable energy transition is essential for sustainable development in Indonesia, but faces challenges such as suboptimal regulations, minimal incentives, and conflicts of interest. Environmental law plays a strategic role in supporting this transition, but its effectiveness in encouraging clean energy development and ensuring social justice still needs further research. This study examines the challenges of renewable energy transition in Indonesia, the role of environmental law in supporting clean energy, protecting the environment, ensuring social justice, and evaluating its effectiveness towards sustainable development. This research uses normative juridical, analyzing renewable energy regulations and environmental law through a study of primary and secondary legal materials, conceptual approaches, and a comparison of international practices to formulate recommendations for energy transition law. Previous research has found that the renewable energy transition in Indonesia is hampered by suboptimal regulations, minimal incentives, and conflicts of interest. Environmental law has strategic potential, but its effectiveness needs to be strengthened through policy adjustments and adoption of international practices to accelerate the energy transition and support sustainable development and social justice. This research is useful for the legal, public policy, and sustainable development domains. Its findings help strengthen renewable energy regulations, formulate green energy transition policies, and ensure social justice. This research is relevant for policymakers, academics, legal practitioners, and environmental activists to promote inclusive sustainable development.

Promotion of green financing: Role of renewable energy and energy transition in China

Market fundamentalism (or neoliberalism) has proven to be a crisisprone economic model. Within this model, a number of in-built structural imbalances and their interactions have contributed to a downward spiral in economic performance. The end point of this evolution is a multi-crisis in which geopolitics has become an integral macroeconomic variable. Because geopolitics does not function as an antidote but rather as a remedy with predominantly counterproductive effects, the global economy has persistently lost recovery momentum and slipped into deeper crises, while human society simultaneously undergoes geopolitical regression. In such a context, preserving strategic autonomy becomes a particularly demanding task for any national economy. For Serbia, as a small, open, middle-income, landlocked economy on a convergence path toward the EU, this challenge is especially pronounced. These days, strategic autonomy entails a clear vision for accelerating the green transition through a new industrialization based on climate-neutral technologies, primarily in the energy sector and land-use industries. In this paper, we explore key insights into the efforts required to energize the green transition as a roadmap for reversing, or at the very least decelerating, the adverse dynamics of the current economic conjuncture. Serbia serves as the focal point of this analysis, with particular emphasis on the green energy transition as a critical pillar of this complex endeavor. The authors hope that the proposed platform for the green energy transition will be recognized as both feasible and implementable. The zero step in Serbia’s green energy transition is the build-up of a nature-centric mindset capable of fostering a so-called “ecological civilization” in the near future. To achieve this, two coordination mechanisms must be combined: the invisible hand of the market and the visible hand of the state. The paper also addresses two additional issues. First, it examines the specific characteristics of investments in biomass-based energy technologies. Second, it analyzes the policy mix required to stimulate investment in related technologies for renewable energy and land-use industries, carbon capture and utilization, grid optimization, lithium production, and other sectors integral to the green transition (e.g., the EV value chain). Building on the preceding line of reasoning, the paper is organized into five main sections, in addition to the Introduction and Conclusion. Part 1 examines the root causes and key deficiencies of market fundamentalism. Part 2 discusses the necessity of the green transition as a pathway toward ecological civilization. Part 3 elaborates a “to-be” scenario for Serbia, based on a circular growth model and a heterodox economic policy platform. Part 4 assesses Serbia’s economic preparedness for the green energy transition. Finally, Part 5, the paper’s pivotal section, presents a portfolio of green energy projects, providing detailed explanations of biomass-based energy production, which is proposed as the flagship project within Serbia’s broader green energy transition agenda.

Overcoming energy injustice? Bulgaria’s renewable energy transition in times of crisis

Energy poverty, development outcomes, and transition to green energy

Act locally, transition globally: Grassroots resilience, local politics, and five municipalities in the United States with 100% renewable electricity

Ready or not, here it comes: Assessing the gaps in community plans for renewable energy transitions within the United States

ABSTRACTThrough a joint community effort Denmark’s Renewable Energy Island Samsø became self-sufficient with renewable energy over a period of 10 years from 1997 to 2007. Today, the story about Samsø’s successful energy transition has become a global export and a widely known model of community building, public participation and shared ownership in renewable energy technologies and transition processes. What has allowed the Samsø narrative to travel so widely has been the effective ‘transition story’ created about the islanders’ efforts. This transition story, however, has become fixed with the years and has assumed an ideal-typical character. Meanwhile, the challenges and costs inherent in the complicated socio-material process of transition are underestimated and largely forgotten. While such transition stories are indeed inspiring, the ideal-typical narrative may stand in the way of the development of further local energy transitions, as challenging elements of the process are downplayed to strengthen the narrative power of the story. Ethnographic stories about Samsø complicate the island’s transition narrative and add nuance to the Samsø story, highlighting its discrepancies and problematizing the effects of such well-crafted transition narratives. This tendency toward the ‘storification’ of transition processes is not restricted to Samsø; it is employed as a tactics by environmental organizations operating globally.

Background: The rapid shift toward renewable energy and net-zero climate policies has raised concerns about greenflation—temporary upward pressure on consumer prices arising from the green energy transition itself. While the topic has attracted increasing attention from policymakers and central banks, a systematic synthesis of recent empirical evidence remains limited. Aim: This systematic review evaluates the existence, direction, and persistence of short-run inflationary effects associated with key elements of the green transition, including carbon pricing policies, energy-market adjustments, and large-scale green investment programmes. Methods: Following PRISMA-guided reporting principles, we searched Scopus, Web of Science, EconLit, RePEc/IDEAS, SSRN, Google Scholar, and major central-bank and international-organisation repositories for studies published between 2015 and 2025. Eligible studies provided empirical or model-based estimates of the impact of real-world green-transition policies or shocks on headline or core consumer price inflation within the first five years. After screening 1,322 records, eight recent high-quality empirical studies were included and assessed using a modified Newcastle–Ottawa framework. Findings were synthesised using structured narrative and comparative quantitative approaches. Results: Across different regions, methods, and policy settings, the included studies consistently report positive but temporary inflationary effects associated with the green energy transition in the short run. Carbon pricing mechanisms and energy-related transition shocks emerge as the most prominent contributors, while green investment-driven demand effects are generally smaller. The magnitude of reported effects varies across studies and contexts but is commonly described as modest and transitory, with inflationary pressures fading as energy systems adjust and supply constraints ease. Conclusion: The available empirical evidence suggests that greenflation exists but is limited in scale and duration. Short-run inflationary pressures linked to the green transition are unlikely to pose a major obstacle to price stability if appropriately managed. Well-designed climate policies, particularly those combining carbon pricing with revenue recycling and supply-side measures can further mitigate short-term price impacts while preserving long-term climate objectives.

It has been widely recognized that accelerating green residential energy transition from traditional solid fuels (biomass and coal) to clean and high-efficient energy sources is critical for rural sustainable development. However, little attention has been paid to estimate panel data discrete choice models to analyze the dynamic behavior information of individual households in the process of energy transition. Hence, this paper investigates green residential energy transition using a panel dataset from 3308 rural households in eight provinces of China in 2015 and 2018. The results show that although traditional solid biomass still plays a dominating role in rural residential energy choice, fuel switching from solid fuels to modern clean energy alternatives is taking place. Off-farm employment plays an important role in the transition towards more sustainable energy sources, as households with off-farm employed heads and higher off-farm income level are highly likely to choose superior energy alternatives other than traditional biomass. Besides, the educational level of the household head and household location are also important influencing factors of household residential energy choices. Based on these findings, this paper suggests that job creation in non-farm sectors should be given a priority in future policy design to promote rural green energy transition in residential sector. North-south differences should be taken into account, whereas more policy options for optimizing biomass energy use should be explored.

Çalışmada, yenilenebilir enerji kaynaklarının günümüzdeki ve gelecekteki durumu ulusal ve uluslararası yenilenebilir enerji kurumlarının geniş veri tabanları ışığında derlenerek, %100 yenilenebilir enerjiye geçişte dünyanın ve ülkemizin son durumu irdelenmiş, %100 yenilenebilir enerjiye geçiş hedefine ne ölçüde yaklaşıldığı belirlenerek tüm bu bilgilerden hareketle geleceği hakkında öngörülerde bulunulmuştur. Enerji ve çevre problemlerinin gündemde olduğu günümüzde, yaşanan problemlere yönelik öncelikli çözüm ülkelerin yenilenebilir enerjiye geçişi ile mümkündür. %100 Yenilenebilir Enerjiye Geçiş olarak adlandırılan bu hedef hem ihtiyaç duyulan enerjinin sağlanması hem de temiz enerji üretilmesi gibi avantajları beraberinde getirmektedir. Günümüzde, yenilenebilir enerji kaynakları küresel enerji kapasitesinin üçte birinden fazlasını oluşturmaktadır ve Dünya %100 yenilenebilir enerjiye geçiş yolunda hızla ilerlemektedir. 2018 yılında 2017’ye kıyasla, toplam 181 gigawatt (GW) yenilenebilir enerji artışı olmuş ve yenilenebilir enerji paylarını büyüten ülke sayısı artmıştır. Türkiye’nin enerji üretiminde yenilenebilir enerji kaynaklarının geçmişten günümüze durumu incelendiğinde 2008 yılında %20 olan pay 2018’de %32seviyelerine yükselmiştir. Fosil yakıt kaynaklı elektrik enerjisi üretimi ise 2008’de %82’lık bir paya sahipken 2018’de %68 seviyelerine gerilemiştir. Fosil yakıt kullanımında dışarı bağımlılık ve çevresel problemler de düşünülecek olursa bu gelişme gelecek için umut verici seviyelerdedir.

The study aims to inquire how green financing influence renewable energy dependence and renewable energy transition in ASEAN, using electric utilities company as the main sample. This paper therefore addresses the question of whether and how green finance (with the proxy of issued green bonds [GBs] promotes energy efficiency (with the proxy of energy intensity) in the ASEAN member countries. The objective of this study is to determine how green loans or green bonds can hasten the energy transition in a sampling nation in the years 2020–2022. This Research running the data from the Eikon Refintiv database that details the purpose of green bond issues using regression analysis. This study cover different public and private company in electric utilities industry. To the best of author’s knowledge, there has not been any in-depth study focusing on the relationship between green financing and energy transition for the case of electric industries company in ASEAN 2020-2022. this research will offer valuable insights to decision-makers in business and government sectors, with the aim of understanding the impact of green bonds on expediting a nation's transition towards sustainable energy.

Global use of fossil fuels increases the growth of carbon dioxide (CO <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</inf> ) emissions and results in significant climate change. In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the mix of renewable energy continues to grow. In this case, the quality of electric service becomes more susceptible to climate change. This research studies California’s case on the relationship between climate change and renewable energy generation, providing a methodology to estimate optimal renewable energy capacity in transitioning from fuel-based energy to renewable energy. Proper planning of renewable energy capacity will help avoid electric supply shortages caused by climate change and reduce the reserved residual energy’s maintenance cost. This will lead to finding the optimal operating capacity of renewable energy and expedite the capacity transition to renewable energy from fuel-based energy. This research is based on California’s climate and energy generation data, but the same methodology can be applied and tested to any region in planning renewable energy capacity and transition.

Critical metals: Their applications with emphasis on the clean energy transition