Erik R. Larsen’s research while affiliated with Aarhus University and other places

... The only reaction can consist in offers and tools for "listening to minority, vulnerable and NIMBY citizens" (Alonso-Cortés et al., 2024). This can be achieved by mapping the subjective viewpoints of affected persons (Hjelle and Vik, 2011), creating proposals by citizens (e-cognocracy, see Ghazinoory et al., 2024;Moreno-Jiménez et al., 2014), incorporating inclusive gamification elements (Hassan and Hamari, 2020;Marrero-Trujillo et al., 2023), or via the use of design thinking based on a process of coproduction experimentation and prototyping of e-participation tools together with citizens (Mariani et al., 2023; see for wind energy development Solman et al. (2021) and for target group-specific tools for young people Juusola and Varsaluoma (2023)). Seeing as deficiencies in personal digital literacy and the lack of appropriate devices necessary to engage effectively in online sessions cannot be changed, it is all the more important to provide a broader digital scope with which to express opinions on the topics discussed in energy planning (Faganello and Luciano, 2023). ...

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E-participation in energy transitions: What does it mean? Chances and challenges within Germany's Energiewende

... Reports [29,87] define adequacy and its application in EU countries, aiming to establish a unified methodology and model for evaluating adequacy, along with metrics to measure adequacy levels across the EU. Similarly, [22] emphasizes the importance of a coordinated regional approach to capacity investment and grid interconnection, including strategies to prevent the premature retirement of existing plants, enhance demand-side management, and develop cost-effective energy storage solutions for the long term. ...

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Resource Adequacy and Integration of Renewables in the Light of US, EU and Pakistan’s Evolving Power Sector

... Polycentric governance is based on multiple, nested decision centres with 'limited and autonomous prerogatives' (Aligica and Tarko, 2012: 237), working within a shared set of values and rules (Adler and Heckscher, 2018) to generate order from 'evolutionary' processes of experimentation, deliberation and revisability (Shanahan, 2023). A number of scholars examined knowledge and shared situational awareness as core resources in today's technologically mediated forms of collaborative organising and highlighted how they are polycentrically managed through common information infrastructures (Fjeldstad et al., 2012;Håkonsson et al., 2023). Participants maintain communicative flows, connection and trust, for example, through intertwined dynamics between formalisation and decentralisation (Rozas and Huckle, 2021), distinguishing participation opportunities for core and peripheral members (Massa and O'Mahony, 2021), or providing asynchronous and real-time communication channels (Rhymer, 2023). ...

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Addressing durability in collaborative organising: Event atmospheres and polyrhythmic affectivity

... The issue of energy transition stems from a number of complicated troubles, such as climate change, gradual depletion of fossil fuels, and economic recession (Martínez-Jaramillo et al. 2023), and it is a long-term multidimensional, and irreversible process (Fischer-Kowalski et al. 2019). Grübler (2004) proposed three features of energy transition: the quantity (growth in energy utilization), the structure (energy products available to end consumers), and the quality (functional and environmental ...

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Assessing the influence of energy transition on economic-social growth: the case of China

... The deployment of new and innovative configurations of PHS-BES is highly dependent on such barriers [220][221][222][223][224]. Therefore, to further incentivize the development of such systems, greater efforts should be made by policymakers to authorize more encouraging and secure energy policies. Examples include remunerating the developers of new technologies and providing them with greater facilitation, prioritizing the assessment of long-term multi-criteria studies, considering the deployment of greenhouse emission-related fees to represent the actual cost of pollutant emissions regarding different (renewable and non-renewable) components from the production stage, and strengthening awareness of the significance of socio-environmental effects in avoiding severe climate change and global warming [225][226][227][228][229][230]. ...

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Optimal operation of pumped hydro storage-based energy systems: A compendium of current challenges and future perspectives

... The imperative to shift towards renewable energy sources has gained unprecedented urgency because of significant environmental crises, such as public health concerns [1][2][3], climate change [4][5][6], energy security [7][8][9], energy access [10][11][12], and environmental degradation [13][14][15]. Addressing these multifaceted challenges necessitates transitioning from traditional fossil fuels to more sustainable energy alternatives [16][17][18]. ...

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Advances in photothermal catalysts for solar-driven hydrogen production

... One study using data on five developing countries from 1990 to 2010 concluded that utility deregulation is not a significant factor determining RE production (60). Arango-Aramburo et al. (61) find that deregulation ¶ See details on the method and data used to construct the RPS policy stringency index in ref. 74. facilitates the decentralized planning decisions of energy resource capacity additions, which can lead to more uncertainties in technology deployment. ...

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The spillover effect of mandatory renewable portfolio standards

... However, in Chile, water availability is one of the most critical challenges that the mining industry must face since it is not directly dependent on the actions that companies can develop. Hence, they should find the solution with the participation of all stakeholders [8,17,19]. ...

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Environmental Management Strategies in the Copper Mining Industry in Chile to Address Water and Energy Challenges—Review

... Electricity demand and electricity load have been studied under different perspectives, including but not limited to socio-economic [6], environmental [7,8], and regulatory [9] viewpoints. These studies often consider various factors influencing electricity demand, such as population growth, economic development, weather patterns, energy efficiency measures, and the integration of renewable energy sources. ...

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Learning causality structures from electricity demand data

... The same is true for "organization design," a widely used and highly developed approach to the analysis, design, and implementation of high-performance business organizations. However, leading proponents of this broad concept have recently pointed to the relevance of social networks for the design of private and public organizations (Burton et al., 2020). ...

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Hidden networks in business processes -theoretical considerations and experimental verification