Recent Publications

Chien-fei Chen and Xiaojing Xu published an article about energy efficiency and energy justice for U.S. low-income households

Xu, X., & Chen, C. (2019). Energy efficiency and energy justice for U.S. low-income households: An analysis of multifaceted challenges and potential. Energy Policy,128, 763-774. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2019.01.020

Evangelos Pournaras and his colleagues have published an article about attempting to integrate social, economic, and technology

Pilgerstorfer, P., & Pournaras, E. (2017). Self-Adaptive Learning in Decentralized Combinatorial Optimization - A Design Paradigm for Sharing Economies. 2017 IEEE/ACM 12th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS). doi:10.1109/seams.2017.8

Lindsay McCunn and her colleagues have published an article

Lindsay J. McCunn, Amy Kim, James Feracor, Reflections on a retrofit: Organizational commitment, perceived productivity and controllability in a building lighting project in the United States, Energy Research & Social Science,Volume 38, 2018,Pages 154-164, ISSN 2214-6296,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.02.002.

Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens and his colleagues published articles about Electric Mobility

1. Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Optimizing innovation, carbon and health in transport: Assessing socially optimal electric mobility and vehicle-to-grid pathways in Denmark, Energy, Volume 153, 201

2. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Johannes Kester, Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, The demographics of decarbonizing transport: The influence of gender, education, occupation, age, and household size on electric mobility preferences in the Nordic region, Global Environmental Change, Volume 52, 2018

3. Johannes Kester, Lance Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Promoting Vehicle to Grid (V2G) in the Nordic region: Expert advice on policy mechanisms for accelerated diffusion, Energy Policy, Volume 116, 2018

4. Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Lance Noel, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Dismissive and deceptive car dealerships create barriers to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale, Nature Energy, 2018

Kirsten Jenkins and her colleagues in South Africa published articles on Energy Justice, Energy Policy, and South Africa

1. Monyei, C. G., Jenkins, K., Serestina, V. and Adewumi, A. O., 2018, ‘Examining energy sufficiency and energy mobility in the global south through the energy justice framework’, Energy Policy 119: 68–76.

2. Monyei, C. G., Adewumi, A. O. and Jenkins, K., 2018, 'Energy (in)justice in off-grid rural electrification policy: South Africa in focus', Energy Research & Social Science 44152-171.

3. Monyei, C. G., Jenkins, K., Serestina, V. and Adewumi, A. O., 2018, ‘Policy discussion for sustainable integrated electricity expansion in South Africa’, Energy Policy. In press.

Chien-fei Chen and her Chinese colleagues published their work about the Belt and Road Initiative

Jing Shuai, Chien-fei Chen, Jinhua Cheng, Zhihui Leng, Zihan Wang, Are China's solar PV products competitive in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative?, Energy Policy, Volume 120, 2018

Jin Wen and her colleagues published articles on office occupant behaviors

1. Langevin, J.,Wen, J., & Gurian, P. L. (2012). Relating occupant perceived control and thermal comfort: Statistical analysis on the ASHRAE RP-884 database. HVAC&R Research, 18, 179-194.

2. Langevin, J., Wen, J., & Gurian, P. L. (2013). Modeling thermal comfort holistically: Bayesian estimation of thermal sensation, acceptability, and preference distributions for office building occupants. Building and Environment, 69, 206-226.

3. Langevin, J., Wen, J., & Gurian, P. L. (2015). Simulating the human-building interaction: Development and validation of an agent-based model of office occupant behaviors. Building and Environment, 88, 27-45.

4. Langevin, J., Gurian, P. L., & Wen, J. (2015). Tracking the human-building interaction: A longitudinal field study of occupant behavior in air-conditioned offices. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 42, 94-115.