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-reviewedJournalSustainability Switzerland2024#Energy TransitionDOI
Net-Zero Energy Campuses in India: Blending Education and Governance for Sustainable and Just Transition
Kalluri B.
This work examines how Indian campuses can pursue net-zero energy by blending education with governance. It frames campus decarbonization within a just-transition lens, linking institutional management with capacity building. Quantitative f…
Peer-reviewedJournalSustainability and Climate Change2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Converting Carbon-Regime Exposure into Corporate Climate Action: A Configurational Process Framework
Hong Kien Vo
This review proposes the Configurational Carbon-Regime Conversion Framework (CRCF), a middle-range process framework explaining how firms convert carbon-regime exposure into implementable decarbonization. It specifies four core operations—f…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalApplied Thermal Engineering2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Flexible peak shaving of coal-fired power plants via integrating high-temperature electrothermal phase change energy storage
Weiqiang Li, Haichen Yao, Bin Cao +7
This work proposes integrating high-temperature electrothermal phase-change energy storage into coal-fired power plants to enable flexible peak shaving. The storage aims to boost plant ramping flexibility and grid balancing capacity as vari…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalCyber-Physical Energy Systems2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Natural Gas as Transition Green Energy: Emission Penalty/Incentive vs. Green Energy Target
Sheng Chen, Antonio J. Conejo, Zhinong Wei
This paper models natural gas as a transition fuel and examines how high gas prices hinder its use in power generation. Model I has a profit-neutral regulator penalize coal and reward gas to minimize total emissions; Model II has a policyma…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalWater2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Life-Cycle Cost and Greenhouse Gas Trade-Offs of Phosphorus-Removal Upgrading Pathways for China’s Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
Xiaoqian Sun, Yibei Wang, Wenhe Wang +4
This study compares six phosphorus-removal upgrading pathways for a 10,000 m3/d AAO wastewater plant in China, integrating GPS-X simulation, LCA, process-based GHG accounting, and life-cycle costing. All met the Class IA standard but differ…
Peer-reviewedJournalEmirati Journal of Business Economics & Social Studies2026#Energy TransitionDOI
From Waste to Wealth: The Economic Case for Valorising the United Arab Emirates’ Agricultural and Food-Processing Biomass Residues Energy Production, Carbon-Credit Revenue, and Net-Zero Contribution Across Three Deployment Scenarios
Mohamed Alnuaimi
This paper makes the economic case for valorising the UAE's 8–12 Mt/yr of agricultural and food-processing organic residues as an asset rather than a disposal liability. Comparing energy-only, carbon-only, and hybrid carbon-plus-energy scen…
JournalUniversity of Surrey Open Research repository2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Grid-scale energy storage for low-carbon power systems: system impacts, transition dynamics, and climate resilience
Fan He
Using optimisation-based power system models, this thesis shows grid-scale storage cuts both electricity-sector and supply-chain emissions. Short-duration storage dominates early net-zero transition, while medium/long-duration storage grows…
Journal2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Integrating Modern Technologies and Sustainable Pavement Materials into Airport Airside Infrastructure During The Construction Phase : Structural, Environmental, and Economic Assessment for Carbon Neutrality
Abdel Latif Gamal Abdel Latif Younes
This study presents an integrated quantitative framework for decarbonizing airport airside construction by combining AI/3D-GPS-guided equipment, warm mix asphalt, and CO2 mineralization in concrete. Guided equipment cuts operating hours 30-…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalDiscover Sustainability2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Structural barriers and opportunities for clean cooking transition in Nepal using PESTEL and SWOT analyses
Sunil Prasad Lohani, Smika Sharma, Henna Rinta-Kiikka +4
This study applies PESTEL and SWOT frameworks to Nepal's clean cooking transition, drawing on policy documents, a 200-household survey, and focus groups across four districts. Biomass dependence fell from 87.3% (2000) to 59.8% (2022) while …
Peer-reviewedJournalEnergies2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Energy Transition as a Local Development Priority: Implications for Municipal Investment Activity in South-Eastern Poland
Ryszard Kata, Magdalena Cyrek, Małgorzata Wosiek
Using a 2023–2025 survey of all 160 municipalities in Poland's Podkarpackie Voivodeship, the study finds that municipalities prioritizing energy transition allocate a somewhat higher share of investment spending to related projects, especia…
Peer-reviewedJournalInternational Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Social Science2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The Dieng Geothermal Power Plant (PLTP) within the Narrative of Sustainable Development: A Phenomenological Study in Pawuhan Hamlet, Indonesia
Ainiyatul Febri Mahiyah, Asihing Kustanti, Setiyo Yuli Handono
A qualitative phenomenological study of communities around Indonesia's Dieng geothermal plant. It finds unevenly distributed economic benefits (jobs, local business, land values) alongside declining trust, limited participation, perceived e…
Peer-reviewedJournalAJARCDE (Asian Journal of Applied Research for Community Development and Empowerment)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Fuel Mix Evaluation to Increase Thermal Substitution Rate (TSR) in Cement Production
Farhan Azizi, Rika Ampuh Hadiguna, Insannul Kami
A linear-programming model optimizes kiln fuel mix at an Indonesian cement plant (PT X), integrating 432 decision variables to minimize fuel procurement cost under TSR, capacity, and chlorine/sulfur constraints. Simulation raises average TS…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnergy Research & Social Science2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Combining storylines of energy citizenship with narratives of future-world evolutions to design transformative and socially informed energy transition scenarios
Dimitris Fotopoulos, Nikos Kleanthis, Nicole J. van den Berg +4
Climate policy analysis remains dominated by top-down approaches that underrepresent sociopolitical dimensions of the energy transition. This study deconstructs energy citizenship into patterns and trends, translating them into people-centr…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnergy Research & Social Science2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Challenges and pathways for renewable energy transition amid crisis: A case study on community perspectives during the Russian war against Ukraine
Mariia Fedoruk, Walter Leal Filho, João Henrique Paulino Pires Eustachio +5
Combining geospatial assessment with interviews across 19 Ukrainian hromadas and six case studies, this paper examines whether local governments can lead decentralised renewable energy transitions under war conditions. Communities farther f…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalInternational Journal of Sustainable Energy2026#Energy TransitionDOI
A critical review on energy accounting – established methods and a new alternative method based on electrification
Jan Emblemsvåg
A critical literature review reassessing energy accounting methods in light of electrification and the energy transition. It finds the substitution method the least wrong approach, while a new electrification-based method badly misrepresent…
🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEnvironmental Research Energy2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Reply to Comment on ‘Reappraisal of paths to decarbonising British electricity generation in 2030’
David J. Dunstan, A J Drew
A reply defending a reappraisal of UK electricity decarbonisation pathways. Using real generation data and simplifying approximations, the authors argue added electrification has shown no proven contribution to cutting fossil carbon emissio…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnergy Research & Social Science2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Citizen priorities among energy transition objectives and support for energy generation technologies
Walid El-Ajou
Using a 2024 Swiss survey experiment, the authors derive individual priorities among energy transition objectives (biodiversity, emissions, land use, imports/savings, price) via AHP pairwise trade-offs, then link them to technology-specific…
Preprint🇪🇺 EuropeResearch Square2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Energy policy could curb Europe’s overconsumption of critical material supply
Jonathan Peel, Aysha Cotterill, Cyril Chelle-Michou +2
Global net-zero transition demand threatens to exceed critical material supply, yet European policy focuses on expanding supply. This study analyses how energy-system designs and sub-technology choices could keep Europe's material demand wi…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The Impact of Solar Energy Expansion on Rural Electrification in Africa
Bamidele Paul Akinbamiwa
This qualitative review examines rural electrification in Africa, assessing decentralized solar solutions (mini-grids, solar home systems) across Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania. It finds these are scalable and cost-effective versus grid expans…
Peer-reviewedJournal2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Data Center Growth and the Renewable Energy Transition A Global and United States Exploratory Analysis
Eduardo Belluti, Vladimir Boskovic, Eric Elms +1
An exploratory analysis of how rapid data center growth shapes electricity demand and the renewable energy transition, with global and US focus. It examines the link between AI/cloud-driven power consumption and renewable procurement and gr…