A framework to centre justice in energy transition innovations

Patricia Romero-Lankao; Nicole  Rosner; Christof Brandtner; Christopher  Rea; Adolfo Mejia-Montero; Francesca Pilo; Fedor  Dokshin; Vanesa Castán Broto; Sarah Burch; Scott  Schnur

doi:10.1038/s41560-023-01351-3

A framework to centre justice in energy transition innovations

Patricia Romero-Lankao^*, Nicole Rosner, Christof Brandtner, Christopher Rea, Adolfo Mejia-Montero, Francesca Pilo, Fedor Dokshin, Vanesa Castán Broto, Sarah Burch, Scott Schnur

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Abstract

The important role of justice in energy transition technologies has been a topic of increasing interest in recent years. However, key questions remain about how inequities influence energy transition innovations (ETIs) from their design to their widespread use, which ETIs receive more funding, and who controls ETI research, prototyping and deployment. Here we propose a framework to centre justice in energy transition innovations (CJI) and examine how three tenets of justice (recognition, procedural and distributional justice) influence each level of ETI, including niche, regime and landscape levels. We examine wind energy in Mexico and multiple ETIs in Los Angeles as use cases to show how our CJI framework can help reveal the specific inequities undermining just energy transitions at crucial analytical levels of ETI in practice. Our CJI framework offers a path for promoters, practitioners and underserved communities to target the problems these groups face and create ETIs that better address their specific aspirations, needs and circumstances.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1192-1198
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nature Energy
Volume	8
Issue number	11
Early online date	21 Sept 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01351-3
Publication status	Published - Nov 2023

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This work was authored in part by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, for the US Department of Energy (DOE) under contract no. DE-AC36-08GO28308. Funding was provided by the US DOE, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The views expressed in the Article do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the US Government. The US Government retains, and the publisher, by accepting the Article for publication, acknowledges that the US Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this work, or allow others to do so, for US Government purposes. This work was authored in part by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, for the US Department of Energy (DOE) under contract no. DE-AC36-08GO28308. Funding was provided by the US DOE, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The views expressed in the Article do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the US Government. The US Government retains, and the publisher, by accepting the Article for publication, acknowledges that the US Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this work, or allow others to do so, for US Government purposes.

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U.S. Department of Energy	DE-AC36-08GO28308
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Government of South Australia

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