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-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…
Peer-reviewedJournalProgress in Nuclear Energy2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Techno-economic and environmental assessment of district cooling with small modular reactors: Scenario-based insights for low-carbon applications
Hassan M. Waheed, A.M. Hamed, Salah El-Din El-Morshedy +1
A techno-economic and environmental assessment of district cooling systems powered by small modular reactors (SMRs), explored across scenarios for low-carbon applications. It examines feasibility, costs, and emissions trade-offs of nuclear-…
Peer-reviewed🇺🇸 USAJournalCleaner Energy Systems2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Optimizing the California low carbon grid to include Social Cost of Carbon, and modeling grid expansion to 2050
Grant Gardner Gallimore, Olusegun Stanley Tomomewo
This study models California's deep decarbonization of the power grid and light-duty EV fleet using a stochastic grid optimization that incorporates lifecycle emissions and the Social Cost of Carbon ($51–340/tCO2, $190 as basis). Nuclear-in…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalInventions2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Analysis on Low-Carbon and Economic Benefits of Energy-Saving Conductors Under the Dual Carbon Goal
Chunwang Zhang, Gaohui He
This study builds an AC resistance test platform to characterize conventional ACSR and three energy-saving conductors, then compares transmission capacity, line loss and CO2 reduction using Chongqing main and tie-line cases. JLHA3 shows the…
Peer-reviewedJournalDiscover Sustainability2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Asymmetric energy price shock transmission and low carbon electricity transition in ASEAN
Waewwan La-ongsri, Nuttaphat Sukchitt, Pasin Marupanthorn
Using an unbalanced 2000–2025 panel of ten ASEAN economies, the paper tests whether international fuel-price shocks transmit asymmetrically to the low-carbon share of electricity generation, combining NARDL, volatility thresholds, and MIDAS…
Peer-reviewedCNJournalAcademic Journal of Science and Technology2026#Energy TransitionDOI
China’s Energy Structure Transition Toward Carbon Neutrality: Carbon Emission Characteristics, Bottleneck Constraints and Prospects
Shining Zhou
This review traces China's energy supply and demand shift toward low-carbon, noting declining fossil shares, stabilizing emissions in key industrial sectors, and progress in electrification and new energy. It identifies resource constraints…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalJournal of Cleaner Production2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Macroeconomic impacts of regional low-carbon power trade in Northeast Asia: a linked CGE–power-system analysis
Yong-Gun Kim, Haein Kim, Tae Yong Jung +2
This study links a computable general equilibrium model with a power-system model to assess how regional low-carbon power trade in Northeast Asia affects national macroeconomies. It quantifies the economic effects and policy implications of…
DatasetZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Electrifying the factory and beyond: The impact of digital proximity on energy transition
Xitao Li
This paper empirically examines how 'digital proximity' shapes factory electrification and broader energy transition. It suggests access to digital technologies and geographic proximity influence electrification investment, offering implica…
JournalRoutledge eBooks2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Energy storage
Marita Margarita Bertsiou, Evangelos A. Baltas
This chapter reviews the role of energy storage in hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES), covering pumped hydro, batteries, and green hydrogen. It analyzes their principles, advantages, technical requirements, and integration potential, em…
CNJournalInternational Conference on Green Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development (GEESD)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Energy transition and the energy trilemma: spatiotemporal evolution and spatial interaction from a provincial perspective in China
Jiayuan Zhu, Yuan Yu
Using panel data for 31 Chinese provinces (2014–2023), the paper builds a 12-indicator evaluation of the energy trilemma—security, equity, environmental sustainability. National scores rise steadily but regional gaps persist, with a high-ea…
JournalLondon School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The energy transition as a development challenge in Latin America and the Caribbean
Delfina Godfrid Beamonte, Ana Julia Aneise, Elisabeth Möhle +3
This report frames the energy transition as a development challenge, analyzing Latin American and Caribbean countries through a typology of four transition contexts. It combines structural fossil-fuel dependence with clean-energy deployment…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnergy demand2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Evaluation of energy transition pathways for the instant coffee industry
Rafailia Mitraki, Juliette M. Limpach, Muhammad Salman +3
A techno-economic assessment of decarbonization pathways for instant coffee manufacturing. Fuel switching to biomethane/biomass cuts emissions up to 86% while staying cost-competitive; electrification lowers energy demand 6% and emissions u…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnvironment Development and Sustainability2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Impact assessment of large hydropower: the case of Belo Monte in Brazil
Rodrigo A. da Silva Pimentel, Lígia M. Costa Pinto, Paula Ferreira
This study integrates literature review, EIA analysis, and 32 stakeholder interviews to assess environmental, social, and economic externalities of Brazil's Belo Monte hydropower plant using a multidimensional framework. Textual analysis vi…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnergy Sources Part B Economics Planning and Policy2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Energy transition and sustainable development in Africa: A multidimensional study
Ahlem Zayri, Jean Dubé, Amel Sassi Tmar
Using a PVAR model and regime-based approach across 20 African countries (2000–2020), this paper examines how renewable energy development and energy efficiency affect economic growth, electricity access, and CO₂ emissions. It finds a thres…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalJournal of Environmental Planning and Management2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Evolving response of a community to offshore wind energy development – an evaluation of human adaptation to transition
Bridget Durning, John Glasson, Kellie Welch
A longitudinal mixed-methods case study of the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm tracks how nearby Scottish communities responded across pre-consent, consent, construction, and early operation phases. Using Schlossberg's human adaptation to trans…
Preprint🇪🇺 EuropeZenodo2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Keynote: Net-Zero Clusters – Enabling Infrastructure for Competitive Industries
Maroto-Valer, Mercedes
This keynote argues that reaching climate-neutral industry requires technological innovation, interdisciplinary research, and close industry-science-policy cooperation while preserving international competitiveness in Austria and Europe. It…
Peer-reviewedConferenceADIPEC2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Advancing Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Plant Decarbonisation Through Extra High Voltage (EHV) Electrification, Digital Control, and Commissioning Excellence
Buayeh Tadam Adrian, A. Aziz Ruzaidi, Dawam Anis Dalila +2
A PETRONAS LNG facility replaces gas turbine generators with a 275kV EHV grid connection (up to 90 MW) drawing grid-based renewable power, cutting fuel gas combustion, GHG emissions and carbon intensity to accelerate net-zero goals. The pro…
Peer-reviewedJournalInfrastructures2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Cost Assessment of Prestressed Concrete Railway Sleepers: A 100-Year Perspective
Riccio G.
A study combining life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle cost (LCC) assessment of prestressed concrete railway sleepers over a 100-year horizon. It appears to weigh embodied environmental impacts against long-term costs for rail infrast…