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🇨🇳 ChinaJournalChemical Engineering Journal2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Ultrafast and sustainable upcycling of low-rank coal into functional porous carbon for enhanced pseudocapacitive performance
Sheng Zhu, Yani Zhang, Shuhao Zhang +4
This work upcycles low-rank coal into functional porous carbon via an ultrafast, sustainable route to boost pseudocapacitive performance. It reframes coal as a feedstock for energy-storage materials rather than combustion, supporting value-…
🇺🇸 USADatasetZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Coal retirements and US cooling-water consumption
Arif Gasilov
This study examines how coal plant retirements reshape cooling-water consumption in the US power sector. It links decarbonization-driven generation shifts to changes in water resource use, quantifying an environmental co-benefit of the ener…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalnpj Clean Energy2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Synergistic yet divergent climate effects of wind and solar energy in China toward carbon neutrality
Xiaohu Jian, Huimin Zhong, Xiaodong Zhang +8
Wind and solar expansion in China yields competing climate effects: cooling from avoided CO2 and warming from aerosol demasking. The net radiative forcing from displacing coal power reversed from warming in 2010 to cooling in 2022. Without …
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnergies2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Operational Challenges of Digital Real-Time Simulation (DRTS) for the Management of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs)
Juan Esteban Palacios Duarte, Ricardo Moreno Chuquen, José Ángel Barrios +2
This review critically examines the technological and methodological barriers limiting Digital Real-Time Simulation (DRTS) from a validation tool to an operational cyber-physical infrastructure for DER-heavy grids. It focuses on computation…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalGerman Politics & Society2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Restoring the People-Powered Energiewende
Carol Hager
Germany's Energiewende began as a bottom-up, community-led transition supported by feed-in tariffs, delivering climate resilience and local economic vitality. Technological challenges and incumbent utility pressure pushed the government bac…
Peer-reviewedJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
P2P Solar Energy Trading Using Blockchain: A Local Market Model
Qamar Zaman
This paper proposes a blockchain-based peer-to-peer (P2P) solar energy trading framework for local energy markets. It enables prosumers to buy and sell excess solar power directly without intermediaries, ensuring transparency, security, and…
🌍 GlobalJournalIndonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Engineering autonomous and resilient power grids for a fully electrified future
Tole Sutikno
This editorial argues that future power grids depend on converging autonomy and resilience to anticipate disturbances, coordinate distributed resources, and recover rapidly. It reviews AI, self-healing grids, grid-forming power electronics,…
Peer-reviewed🇯🇵 JapanJournalSustinere Journal of Environment and Sustainability2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Promoting evidence-based energy transition: Utilizing statistical analysis for energy and sustainability policies in Indonesia
M Zaki Ramdhan, Daffa Abyan Rizq, Athalla Aqsha Suryoatmodjo +1
Using ARIMA forecasting, multiple regression, and Monte Carlo simulation, this study assesses Indonesia's energy transition. Coal and oil are projected to dominate the mix through 2060, with renewables growing slowly below policy targets. T…
Peer-reviewed🇺🇸 USAJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The EMPATHI Framework for Clean Energy Impact Assessment: Technical Reference
Jacob McNevin
EMPATHI is a methodology translating electricity-sector interventions into projected avoided emissions and downstream climate, health, and ecological outcomes. It covers 13 technologies across 53 US jurisdictions, 12 emissions schemes, and …
JournalcIRcle (University of British Columbia)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Clustering populations for holistic policymaking : promises and limits in British Columbia’s energy transition
Aloysio Kouzak Campos da Paz
This thesis develops an AI framework (PCA, k-means, eta-squared) to cluster 147 municipalities in British Columbia, analyzing barriers and enablers to residential (heat pump) and transportation (EV) electrification policies. It identifies a…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalNdejje University Journal Of Interdisciplinary Studies2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Africa’s Energy Matrix: A Review of Transition Drivers toward Sustainable Electrification
Geoffrey Ssebabi Mutumba, Christine Nabanoba
This review analyzes Africa's energy mix and transition drivers toward universal electrification, assessing financing, utility-performance, policy, and demographic barriers. It evaluates off-grid and mini-grid solutions as either a bridge t…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalIngeniería y Competitividad2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Agroecología y soberanía alimentaria y energética para una transición energética justa en la ruralidad colombiana
Yesid Carvajal Escobar, Fra Filippo Casadiego-Arévalo, Carlos A. Madera-Parra +1
This paper examines Just Energy Transition (JET) in Colombia's non-interconnected zones (NIZs) through the convergence of agroecology, food sovereignty, and energy sovereignty. Case studies from La Guajira, Santander, Córdoba, and Nariño il…
Peer-reviewed🇺🇸 USAJournalEnvironmental Science & Technology2026#Energy TransitionDOI
A Circular Economy Approach for Nutrient Redistribution and Renewable Energy Production
Shaylan Kolodney, Jonathan Cumming, Stephanie L. Lansing +11
This review examines biomass waste-to-energy (BWtE) technologies—anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, and gasification—as components of a circular economy. It argues BWtE can close nutrient loops, produce renewable energy, cut GHG emissions, and…
Journal2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Emerging Trends and Future Prospects of Bioenergy From Waste Biomass
Tarun Kumar Patel
This chapter examines bioenergy from waste biomass as a response to waste management, energy security, and climate challenges. It analyzes emerging technologies—synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and AI-driven biorefineries—alongside hybrid…
Peer-reviewedJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Global Energy Dilemma: Implications of the Russian Ukraine Conflict on Energy, Security, and Climate Change
Francisca Isioma Echefu
This article reviews how the Russia-Ukraine conflict reshaped global energy supply, security, and climate policy. Supply disruptions triggered market shifts and forced many nations to reassess energy policy. It argues the crisis intensified…
Peer-reviewedJournalInternational Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Adoption, impacts and social acceptance of clean energy technologies: A comprehensive review
Shobha Kasar, Renuka Salunke
This review synthesizes multidisciplinary evidence on adoption determinants, socio-economic and environmental impacts, policy mechanisms, and social acceptance of clean energy technologies including solar, biomass, wind, hydro, and geotherm…
Preprint🇪🇺 EuropearXiv (Cornell University)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Energy pathway variety and the progress of the energy transition in European countries
Noam Abadi, Rossana Mastrandrea, Franco Ruzzenenti +1
Using network science, this study analyzes how new energy forms alter the variety of pathways within energy systems across 29 European countries from 1992 to 2021. It finds that the renewable transition initially increases pathway variety, …
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalJoule2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Governing AI infrastructure on decarbonizing grids
Reda El Makroum, Catherine Banet, Yee Van Fan +11
This paper examines governance challenges in integrating AI infrastructure (e.g., data centers) into decarbonizing electricity grids. A multi-institution European collaboration (TU Wien, Oxford, Imperial, NTNU) addresses the tension between…
Preprint🇺🇸 USAZenodo2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Regional Energy Deployment System Model 2.0 (ReEDS 2.0)
Brown, Patrick, Carag, Vincent, Chen, Yunzhi +19
ReEDS is NREL's flagship capacity-planning model for the power sector, simulating the evolution of bulk generation and transmission from today through 2050 and beyond. It supports long-term decarbonization pathway and grid-integration analy…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnvironmental Research: Energy2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The green resource trap: economic instability and the subordination of decarbonization in South America
Lina Leon, Mauricio Sanchez Silva, Edgar Virgüez
Analyzing 12 South American economies across energy, emissions, resource dependence, complexity, and governance, the authors build a typology of transition pathways along extractive dependence and transformation capacity. They identify a 'g…