GX Research Hub · English
GX & Decarbonization Research
This page provides an English interface to the gxceed GX paper corpus. The corpus aggregates papers from 14 contributing scholarly metadata sources and uses AI-assisted classification to identify signals related to measurement, policy narratives, outcomes, implementation, industrial adoption, and verification.
The goal is not only to discover papers, but to observe how GX research is distributed across research substance, implementation narratives, external expectations, implementation substance, and judgment formation.
Summaries are AI-assisted. Always refer to the original paper for authoritative conclusions.
Peer-reviewedJournalDiscover Sustainability2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Renewable energy skill development and the role of local government for community empowerment
Olufemi Michael Oladejo, Ndudoso Comfort Ndebele, Elvin Shava
This qualitative study examines local government's strategic role in closing grassroots renewable energy skills gaps in South Africa. Interviews with seven stakeholders, analyzed thematically via NVivo 14, reveal fragmented policy implement…
Peer-reviewedJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
From Oil Crisis to Renewable Innovations: Transforming Maritime Policy and Marine Conservation
Hind Meriem Mokadem, Christian Lee, Dattansh Shukla
This study evaluates environmental impacts of conventional marine diesel engines and proposes a conceptual self-recharging hybrid propulsion system combining photovoltaics, retractable hydrokinetic turbines, and battery storage for an 8-met…
Peer-reviewedJournalSustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Mapping the spatial spillover effects of climate change mitigation on energy poverty: Evidence from developing and developed countries
Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Alanoud Ali Al-Maadid, Brahim Bergougui
Using a spatial Durbin model on 61 countries (2010–2019), the study estimates direct and cross-border effects of climate mitigation on energy poverty. Mitigation lowers energy poverty domestically (−0.163) and in neighbours (−0.296), with 6…
Peer-reviewedJournalChallenges2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Household Energy Poverty in South Africa: Dimensions, Drivers, Disparities, and Implications for Health, Justice, and Sustainability
Mahali Elizabeth Lesala, Patrick Mukumba
South Africa has near-universal grid access, yet many connected households face inadequate, unreliable, and unaffordable energy. This review of 143 sources examines drivers and disparities of household energy poverty by income, gender, loca…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalFrontiers in Environmental Science2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Household energy expenditures and multidimensional energy poverty in Poland: patterns, determinants, and policy implications
Marlena Jolanta Piekut
Using Poland's Household Budget Survey, this study analyzes long-term energy expenditure trends and constructs a multidimensional energy poverty (EP) index. K-means clustering identifies two dominant expenditure profiles (electricity–gas an…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Technical Requirements for a Digital Twin of Positive Energy District
Pavel Kogut
A policy brief drawn from BIPED's D5.4 deliverable. It frames Positive Energy Districts as a lever for urban energy transition and explains how Digital Twins can support PED development. Use cases illustrate the potential of Digital Twin PE…
JournalInternational Conference on Green Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development (GEESD)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Modeling regional energy transition pathways in China using a random forest-based predictive framework
Xingwei Wang
This study builds a machine-learning framework to predict China's regional energy transition pathways. Comparing SVM, decision tree, KNN, and random forest via 10-fold cross-validation, random forest performed best with superior fit and low…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnergies2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Powering the U.S. Energy Transition Amid Uncertainty: Financial Development, Oil Prices, and Climate Policy Uncertainty
Seyed Alireza Athari, Kamel Si Mohammed, Asaad Sendi +2
Using monthly 2005–2026 U.S. data, this study applies multivariate quantile-on-quantile kernel regularized least squares to test how climate policy uncertainty, financial development, and oil prices shape renewable energy consumption. Effec…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnergy Research & Social Science2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Urban cooking in the global south: Social dimensions, urgency, and climate mitigation potential
Firuz Ahamed Nahid, Abhishek Das, Leila Niamir +2
A systematic review of 42 studies across 50 Global South cities on household cooking fuel transitions. Mitigation potential is estimated at ~0.043 GtCO2 by 2035 at USD 47.6–75.7/tCO2. Economic and socio-cultural constraints are the most per…
Preprint🇪🇺 EuropeZenodo2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Keynote: From Breakthroughs to Scale – Accelerating Industrial Transformation
Peyker, Urban
A keynote framing the path to climate-neutral industry through technological innovation, interdisciplinary research, and industry-science-policy cooperation. It highlights Austria and Europe's challenge of decarbonizing while staying compet…
Preprint🌍 GlobalZenodo2026#Energy TransitionDOI
A Scenario-Based Assessment of Competing Technologies for Industrial Decarbonization
Bhadbhade, Navdeep, Grand, Jonas, Ong, Benjamin Hung Yang
A screening framework combining Pinch Analysis, LCA, techno-economics, and multi-objective optimization is applied to five industrial heat-demand archetypes across five European regional scenarios. Solar thermal mostly acts as a complementa…
Preprint🇪🇺 EuropeZenodo2026#Energy TransitionDOI
ELEKTRA introductory video
1 CUBE
The EU Horizon Europe-funded ELEKTRA project released an introductory video outlining its mission to decarbonize energy-intensive industries. It pursues three technology pathways: electrically heated reforming, induction-based ammonia crack…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalConferenceADIPEC2026#Energy TransitionDOI
From AIS Data to Emissions Reduction: Assessing Decarbonisation Strategies for Offshore Wind Installation Vessels
C. Nicol, M. Webb, P. Olivieri +4
This study models decarbonisation pathways for offshore wind installation vessels using real-world AIS-derived operational profiles integrated with vessel-specific characteristics. Comparing shore power, methanol, hydrogen, and hybrid propu…
Peer-reviewedJournalSustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Can net-zero carbon be a cost-effective enabler of water and energy self-sufficiency?
Dias L.P.
Based on the title alone, this study examines whether achieving net-zero carbon can cost-effectively enable water and energy self-sufficiency. It appears to assess the economics of decarbonization investments alongside resource independence…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalInternational Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Sustainable Energy Planning: Flexibility, Governance and Resource Constraints
Pedro Cabrera, R. Johannsen, P. A. Østergaard
This volume collects six studies on sustainable energy transitions: ancillary services from district heating in Sweden, governance barriers to district heating decarbonisation in the Danube Region, household waste segregation for biogas in …
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalEnvironmental Science & Technology2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Implementation Gap in Global Power Capacity Expansion to meet Paris Agreement Climate Targets
Peipei Chen, Jing Meng, David M. Reiner +5
Using facility-level data and machine learning across 215,849 power units, this study probabilistically assesses whether announced capacity will materialize. Only 51% of planned capacity is expected to operate by 2030, with ~35% of fossil (…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2026#Energy TransitionDOI
A Review of Life Cycle Assessment for Marine Alternative Fuels: Methodology, Multidimensional Evaluation, and Decarbonization Pathways
Hongyu Li, Chenxi Li, Xin Song +6
This review synthesizes LCA advances for marine alternative fuels—LNG, methanol, ammonia, hydrogen, biofuels, and batteries—covering properties, efficiency, and deployment. It outlines the IMO 2024 Fuel LCA Guidelines and well-to-wake frame…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalDiscover Energy2026#Energy TransitionDOI
A socio-technical transition framework for biomass torrefaction at the nexus of energy security and energy justice
Congyu Zhang, Bo Cao, Yuting Wang +1
This review frames biomass torrefaction as a socio-technical pathway, assessing its contribution to multidimensional energy security (availability, accessibility, affordability, acceptability) and its energy justice implications across dist…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalFrontiers in Environmental Science2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Spatiotemporal heterogeneity and international positioning of carbon emission factors of electricity in China
Xufeng Zhang, Qiaozhen Fan, Peng Xi +3
This study builds an integrated framework combining spatiotemporal analysis, spatial autocorrelation, policy-stage comparison, and international benchmarking to assess China's electricity carbon emission factors (ECEF) using official nation…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalFrontiers in Environmental Science2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Towards a green China: energy policy, technological innovation, and green investment as drivers of environmental sustainability
Na Ni
This review synthesizes 2019–2025 scholarship on how energy/climate policy, technological innovation, and green investment jointly drive China's low-carbon transition. Target-based governance, the national ETS, and green credit/bonds have r…