Publikationer

Doktorsavhandlingar

Kojonsaari, A. R. (2025). Wiring Power: Empowering Energy Democracy and New Actor Roles in the Smart Electric Grid .Doctoral dissertation, Lund University.

El Gohary, F. (2024). Diagnosing demand flexibility: On the limitations of price signals. Doctoral dissertation, Uppsala University.

Licentiate avhandlingar

Gharaie, A. (2025). Digitalizing consumer engagement within smart grids–Role of smart service providers, Linköping University Electronic Press.

Vetenskapliga artiklar

2025

• Palm, J., Kojonsaari, A.-R., & Magnusson, D. (2025). Toward energy democracy: Municipal energy actions in local renewable energy projects. Energy Research & Social Science, 120, 103921. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.103921.
• Boije af Gennäs Erre, E., Palm, J., & Bergek, A. (2025). Community of place or community of interest: challenging the role of citizen engagement and proximity in energy communities in Sweden. Journal of Cleaner Production, 510, 145654. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.145654
• Neij, L, Palm, J, Busch, H, Bauwens, T, Becker, S, Bergek, A, Buzogány, A, Candelise,C Coenen, F, Devine-Wright, P, Hoppe, T, Kortetmäki, A, Pantazis, K, Palaiogiannis, F, Margosi, M, Petrovics, D, Plöchl, J, Ruggieri, G, Ruggiero, S, Standal, K, Scherhaufer, P, Soutar, I (2025) Energy communities – lessons learnt, challenges, and policy recommendations, Oxford Open Energy, oiaf002, https://doi.org/10.1093/ooenergy/oiaf002
• Reindl, K., Pardalis, G., Pihl, D. & Palm, J. (2025) Analysing energy considerations in residential renovation planning and design: a case study comparison between Denmark and Sweden. Energy Efficiency 18, 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-025-10310-8
• Llewellyn, J., Venverloo, T., Duarte, F., Ratti, C., Katzeff, C., Johansson, F., & Pargman, D. (2025). Assessing the impact of energy coaching with smart technology interventions to alleviate energy poverty. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 969.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80773-9

2024

• Nyström, S., Katzeff, C., & Rivera, M. B. (2024). Home-personas meet energy narratives of demand response: Uncovering mismatches between Swedish stakeholder expectations and everyday life. Futures, 103410.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2024.103410
• Nyström, S., Rivera, M. B., & Katzeff, C. (2024). Households as part of the solution-Examining Swedish policy expectations on demand response in households. Energy Policy, 189, 114118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114118
• El Gohary, F. (2024). Diagnosing demand flexibility: On the limitations of price signals. Doctoral dissertation, Uppsala University.
• El Gohary, F. (2024). The price signal paradigm: On the evolution and limitations of demand-side flexibility in the EU. Energy Policy, 192, 114239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114239
• Stikvoort, B., El Gohary, F., Nilsson, A., & Bartusch, C. (2024). Serving two masters: How dual price signals can undermine demand flexibility. Energy Policy, 185, 113918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113918
• Lazoroska, D., Palm, J. & Kojonsaari, AR. (2024) Gender-based opportunity structure in the energy sector: a literature review on women’s networking and mentoring. Energ Sustain Soc 14, 67. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-024-00494-9
• Libertson, F. (2024). Misalignments of theory and practice: Exploring Swedish energy utilities' understandings of energy justice, flexibility capital, and just energy transitions. Energy Research & Social Science, 111, 103471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103471

2023

• El Gohary, F., Stikvoort, B., & Bartusch, C. (2023). Evaluating demand charges as instruments for managing peak-demand. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 188, 113876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.113876

• El Gohary, F., Nordin, M., Juslin, P., & Bartusch, C. (2023). Getting the signal - Do electricity users meet the preconditions for making informed decisions on demand response. Energy Research & Social Science, 100, 103119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103119

• Robison, Rosie, et al. (2023). Shifts in the smart research agenda? 100 priority questions to accelerate sustainable energy futures. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023, 419: 137946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137946

• Lazorska, D, Palm, J & Kojonsaari, A-R (submitted) The gender structure of opportunities in the energy sector: a literature review on women’s networking and mentoring
• Palm, J., Kojonsaari, A. R., Öhrlund, I., Fowler, N., & Bartusch, C. (2023). Drivers and barriers to participation in Sweden's local flexibility markets for electricity. Utilities Policy, 82, 101580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2023.101580
• Kojonsaari, AR., & Palm, J. (2023). The development of social science research on smart grids: a semi-structured literature review. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 13, 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-023-00381-9
• Hartmann, K & Palm, J (2023). The role of thermal energy communities in Germany’s heating transition. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 4:1027148. doi: 10.3389/frsc.2022.1027148
• Libertson, F. (2023). Inner transitions in higher education in Sweden: incorporating intra-personal skills in education for sustainable development. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 24(9), 213-230.

2022

• Wahlund, M & Palm, J (2022) The role of energy democracy and energy citizenship for participatory energy transitions: A comprehensive review, Energy Research and Social Science, 87, Volume 87,102482, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102482
• El Gohary, F., Nordin, M., Juslin, P., & Bartusch, C. (2022). Evaluating user understanding and exposure effects of demand-based tariffs. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 155, 111956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111956

2021

• Kojonsaari, A-R & Palm, J (2021) Distributed energy systems and energy communities under negotiation, Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy, 6, 17, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40866-021-00116-9
• Palm, J. (2021). Exploring Limited Capacity in the Grid: Actors, Problems and Solutions. Frontiers in Energy Research, 9:663769. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2021.663769
• Libertson, F., Velkova, J. & Palm, J. (2021). Data-center infrastructure and energy gentrification: perspectives from Sweden. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 17(1), pp 153-162, https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2021.1901428
• El Gohary, F., Nyström, S., Reitsma, L., & Bartusch, C. (2021). Identifying challenges in engaging users to increase self-consumption of electricity in microgrids. Energies, 14(5), 1257. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14051257
• El Gohary, F., Nordin, M., Juslin, P., & Bartusch, C. (2021). Demand charges and user flexibility. Applied Energy, 301, 117543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117543

Konferensbidrag

• Gharaie, A., Arvidsson, V., Johansson, B. (2024). Consumer Engagement Potentials in the Digitalization Process of Power System. In: Janssen, M., et al. Electronic Government. EGOV 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14841. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70274-7_10

• Gharaie, Amirhossein and Johansson, Björn, "Energy Smart Home Technologies and Energy Citizenship: A Literature Review" (2024). ECIS 2024 Proceedings. 41. https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2024/track17_greenis/track17_greenis/41

• Nyström, S., Katzeff, C., Börjesson Rivera, M & Menon, A. (2024): Stakeholders' envisioned roles of households in energy communities. Extended abstract presented at ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, Champagne-Ardennes, 10-15 June 2024. https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2024/5-sustainable-communities/conceptualisations-of-energy-and-stakeholder-expectations-of-households-in-an-energy-community/
• Nyström, S., Katzeff, C. & Börjesson Rivera, M. (2022): Gaps between stakeholders’ expectations and everyday life of households in the smart grid viewed through the lens of activity and awareness. Extended abstract presented at ECEEE Summer Study, Hyères, June 2022. https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2022/1-dynamics-of-consumption-less-is-more/gaps-between-stakeholders-expectations-and-everyday-life-of-households-in-the-smart-grid-viewed-through-the-lens-of-activity-and-awareness/
• Nyström, S. and Menon, A. (2024): Stakeholders' envisioned roles of households and conceptualisations of energy in energy communities. Workshop paper presented at Digitalisation of energy communities: New modes of organising, business models and forms of transition governance, Helsinki, October 2024. https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/digitalisation-of-energy-communities-new-modes-of-organising-business-models-and-transition

• Gharaie, A., & Johansson, B. (2023). Exploring the role of aggregators in the ecosystem of energy flexibility. In BIR-WS 2023: BIR 2023 Workshops and Doctoral Consortium, 22nd International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2023), September 13-15, 2023, Ascoli Piceno, Italy (Vol. 3514). Technical University of Aachen.

Populärvetenskap - Bokkapitel, rapport, policy briefs

• C. Katzeff, "Homes in the smart grid," (2022). In Towards the energy of the future : The invisible revolution behind the electrical socket, Vetenskap och Allmänhet red., 1. uppl. Stockholm : Vetenskap och Allmänhet, 2022, s. 119-128. https://vetenskapallmanhet.se/2022/07/towards-the-energy-of-the-future-new-popular-science-book/
• Boije Af Gennäs Erre, E., & Palm, J. (2023). Energigemenskap – olika modeller för att äga förnybar energi gemensamt.

• C. Katzeff: Hushållens roll i smart bebyggelse, presentation och panel vid seminariet ”Smart bebyggelse och smarta byggnader” Effektarenan 12 april 2024, E2B2 IQ Samhällsbyggnad.
• Anna-Riikka Kojonsaari och Jenny Palm, Energy democracy, energy justice and energy citizenship – citizen participation in theory and practice, NESS, 4-6 juni 2024, Åbo, Finland
• Jenny Palm Challenging the ideal energy community: member views of place, engagement and aim”, seminarium om energigemenskaper, Stockholm, november 2023.
• Jenny Palm, Affärsmodeller för samägandelösningar av solel, BeSmå:s medlemsmöte (online), augusti 2023.
• Magnusson, Dick, Anna-Riikka Kojonsaari, Jenny Palm ”Swedish urban energy communities – new and emergent actor constellations”, 6th Nordic STS Conference 2023, 7-9 juni 2023, Oslo, Norge
• Jenny Palm, Modeller för solgemenskaper, workshop med Svensk Solenergi, EON, Malmö Stad, Svensk Vindenergi och Energimyndigheten, Solar Region Skåne, online, februari 2022.
• "Solel för Alla", Föreläsningen arrangeras av Lunds Naturskyddsförening, Lunds universitets Hållbarhetsforum och Stadsbiblioteket i Lund, Lund 220210
• "Energigemenskaper", för Lunds Klimatallians, 8 december 2021, Lund
• "A flexible energy system – challenges”, Greater Copenhagen Green Deal-workshop: A flexible and smart energy system, 15 September 2021, Malmö and online.
• "Local Energy Communities and the EU’s clean energy package", with Jake Barnes, Oxford Environment Institute, online webinar “European Studies Seminar: Local energy and the EU's clean energy package: an induring innovation". 17 May 2021, 16.45-18.30, Events | St Antony's College (ox.ac.uk),
• "Kundens bidrag till efterfrågeflexibilitet", Energimarknadsinspektionens webinarium, 20210128.
• Paneldebatt, Palm, Jenny Deltagare i paneldebatt ”Pufendorf & Friends: Energiomställningen - Watt är vi på väg?, Lunds universitet, Lund 230302

• IIIEE Energy blog “Rethinking Energy Communities: Beyond Place-Based Participation”, 9 maj 2025,
• IIIEE Energy blog “Contribution and missed opportunity in research on energy democracy and energy citizenship”, 6 June 2022,
• IIIEE Energy blog “When a hard-to-reach-user meet a hard-to-reach-company: the roll-out of smart meters”, 22 November 2021.
• IIIEE Energy blog “Who becomes a prosumer and why?, 25 October 2021,