Thomas Hoppe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Hoppe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoppe |
| SIGNATURE | HOPPE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delft University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0770-4858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How does knowledge utilization influence climate policy innovation? Energy modelling and the legitimization of the 55% target in the European Union
In order to accelerate the energy transition, policies have proven successful to reduce emissions, but more policy innovations are needed to reach carbon neutrality. Despite some understanding of the process of such innovations, the role of knowledge is not addressed in a systematic way. In particular, the role of energy models has not been investigated thoroughly. In this article, we examined the types of knowledge utilization and the ways in wh…
When rules fall behind: How outdated regulations stall the energy transition
Local energy transitions are promoted as means to achieve decarbonization, ensure democratic participation by local communities in energy decision-making, and foster social acceptance of renewable energy projects. However, despite the growing maturity of energy technologies and increased policy support, local energy initiatives continue to face regulatory barriers that limit their capacity to achieve their goals. The article examines how legal fr…
Towards effective and just energy transitions in underprivileged neighbourhoods: A double-eyed and sociotechnical approach
Especially in underprivileged neighbourhoods (UNs), with high renovation urgency and thus opportunities to kick-start the energy transition (ET), residents tend to resist retrofit measures. This is due to general lack of trust in government, housing corporations, and other key players. We contend that a negative spiral of ET effectiveness and justice is rooted in two mismatches, between (i) UN resident needs and everyday practices and customary E…
Amber workshops in Central Europe during the Early Iron Age. Technology, chemical analyses, and Amber Roads
The largest peak in the distribution of raw amber from the Baltic and the North Sea throughout European history can be identified in the middle of the 1st millennium BC. Raw amber was processed in the amber workshops the Early Iron Age (800–370 BC). This study reveals how these amber workshops can be reliably identified and what their distribution reveals about long-distance exchange systems in Europe. The amber was not only a strategic commodity…
The AI Act and Its Green Blind Spots: Hidden Environmental Risks in the AI Lifecycle
The European Union Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act is the first comprehensive regulatory framework for AI, establishing a risk-based approach. It addressed environmental sustainability only to a limited extent. Environmental impacts are not considered a separate category of risks but are tackled indirectly through procedural mechanisms, including transparency, documentation, and governance requirements. Many have questioned whether this approach…
From green consumption to carbon inclusion: An examination of the Chinese government's adoption and implementation of climate policies
This study examines carbon inclusion as an innovative policy mechanism for addressing consumer‐side emissions within industrial ecosystems. Carbon inclusion quantifies and incentivizes individual low‐carbon behaviors, bridging consumer choices and industrial transformation. Using longitudinal analysis of China's green consumption and carbon inclusion policies (2013–2024), combined with text mining and expert interviews, we investigate how carbon …
Mapping the hydrogen transition in the Netherlands: A sociotechnical multi-system event sequence analysis
Hydrogen is considered a promising energy carrier that can potentially contribute to low-carbon energy systems and achieving climate goals. Its introduction, however, is complex, involving multiple emerging niches and developments across various sociotechnical systems. Despite its significance, the multi-system nature of hydrogen has received limited attention in sustainability transition scholarship. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by ex…
Local energy autarky: What it means and why it matters
The concept of energy autarky, namely self-sufficient energy production and consumption, gained traction as states and other actors seek alternatives to centralised energy systems and conventional energy sources. This led to discussions about the potential for achieving autarky at various territorial levels, including national, regional, local, and even city district or household. While studies on autarky at the national level exist, the connotat…
Sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations: Reviewing research, market and societal trends
Research into the impact of innovative sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations is crucial to diversifying, scaling up, and accelerating the sustainable energy transition. Although there is vast research into sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations, research literature offers a fragmented collection of findings. A coherent overview of themes and insights regarding the transformative impact of innovative sustainable energy exper…
How issue salience and political leadership facilitate policy integration: The adoption of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in the European Union
A framework to analyze inclusion in smart energy city development: The case of Smart City Amsterdam
In response to unprecedented global urbanization, the smart city concept has emerged, leveraging ICT to enhance municipal efficiency and improve the quality of urban life. The concept of smart energy city (SEC) is closely related to smart cities, however, energy system development in a smart city context is often found eluding certain segments of society, which calls for more attention to inclusion in SEC development. In this paper, the research …
Hybrid global governance for responsible and inclusive Artificial Intelligence: Proposing a new Sustainable Development Goal 18
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly recognised as a transformative force in advancing and potentially undermining, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While AI can drive innovation to benefit SDG's , it also amplifies risks such as bias, surveillance abuse, and environmental impacts. Existing governance approaches remain fragmented, with principles-based, rights-based, risk-based, and ethics-based frameworks operatin…
The role of City Climate Networks in Promoting Citizen Participation in Municipalities: A Critical Multi-Case Analysis
Who is vulnerable in regional energy transitions? An intersectional energy justice analysis of the Rotterdam-the Hague region
A just energy transition requires not only the achievement of low-carbon goals but also the creation of fairer energy systems where special attention is given to identifying vulnerable groups and addressing the inequalities they experience. Governing energy transitions at the regional level may help formulate and implement tailored policies addressing vulnerabilities at the local level. However, there is limited understanding of the vulnerabiliti…
Does local ownership matter? A comparative analysis of fourteen wind energy projects in the Netherlands
Onshore wind energy projects are traditionally developed by commercial project developers. However, the development of these projects is increasingly encountering problems due to poor social acceptance and legal objections. In addition to commercial project developers, renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops) also develop onshore wind energy projects. These non-commercial entities are driven by local, ecological and egalitarian values and often s…
When does the energy transition impact household affordability? A mixed-methods comparison of fourteen coal and carbon-intensive regions
Energy affordability tends to be lower in phasing-out than in transitioning regions. • Regional conditions are strongly associated with energy affordability. • Global policies misaligned with regional transitions can undermine affordability. • Regional fossil-fuel dependency is associated with low energy affordability. • Aligning energy transition and regional development plans can favor affordability. Understanding what conditions promote or hin…
The Tax Complexity Index – A Survey-Based Country Measure of Tax Code and Framework Complexity
This paper introduces the Tax Complexity Index (TCI). The TCI comprehensively measures the complexity of countries’ corporate income tax systems faced by multinational corporations. It builds on surveys of highly experienced tax consultants of the largest international tax services networks. The TCI is composed of a tax code subindex covering tax regulations and a tax framework subindex covering tax processes and features. For a sample of 100 cou…
Can co-creation support local heat decarbonisation strategies? Insights from pilot projects in Bruges and Mechelen
Co-creation is often presented as a solution to challenges of achieving energy transitions. However, there is currently little known about how coordinating stakeholders, such as city administrations, interpret co-creation and the extent to which this influences co-creation processes. We draw on a recent project, which embedded co-creation in public decision-making about local-level, sustainable heating transitions. We specifically address the que…
Value dynamics in energy democracy: An exploration of community energy initiatives
In the European Union, energy democracy (ED) is considered a socially desirable policy goal. One way to achieve ED is through empowering local communities to become agents of value change who can pursue more sustainable and equitable energy provision with community energy initiatives (CEI). However, such people-driven value change is complex in nature. CEIs are multifaceted sociotechnical systems that bring together sets of values and are compose…
Transplanting good practices in Smart City development: A step-wise approach
Renewable Energy Communities as a New Actor in Home Energy Savings
Renewable energy communities (RECs) might be an interesting new stakeholder in stimulating home energy-saving efforts by tenants and homeowners due to their potential of raising awareness locally and gaining public support for low-carbon energy and energy-savings projects, because RECs are often locally sited, in close social proximity of residents, and are already part of local structures and share local institutions. This comes with many benefi…
Governing regional energy transitions? A case study addressing meta-governance of thirty energy regions in the Netherlands
There is increasing scholarly and policy attention to energy transition at the regional scale. This perspective article presents empirical insights from the Netherlands, a frontrunner that has been experimenting with, formulating and scaling regional energy strategies to thirty ‘energy regions’, with the goal of these regions contributing to the national climate goal, including but not limited to 35 TWh of solar and wind energy. The research ques…
Dirigir transiciones energéticas regionales? Un estudio de caso que aborda la metagobernanza de treinta regiones energéticas en los Países Bajos
Cada vez es mayor la atención que se presta a la transición energética a escala regional en el ámbito político y académico. Este artículo expone las experiencias empíricas de los Países Bajos, líderes en experimentación, formulación y desarrollo de estrategias energéticas regionales en treinta «regiones energéticas», con el objetivo de que estas regiones contribuyan al reto climático nacional, incluyendo pero no limitándose a 35 TWh de energía so…
Co-creation as a social process for unlocking sustainable heating transitions in Europe
Providing heat is a key aspect of social life and a necessity for comfort and health in cold climates. Even though heat accounts for a large proportion of worldwide carbon emissions and is the largest energy end-use, it has remained largely untouched by efforts to decarbonize. Efforts to do so meet significant economic, social-psychological, technical and political challenges. Much is at stake. But what can make a difference? One increasingly dis…
Performance agreements to ensure societal legitimacy in the social housing sector; an embedded case study of implementation in the Netherlands
In 2015 the Housing Act was revised in order to further regulate the social housing sector in the Netherlands and thereby improve the steering possibilities for the central government to coordinate housing associations. This included local performance agreements for social housing policy obtaining a legal status. By introducing this policy instrument central government seeks to facilitate and ensure the tri-partite cooperation between municipalit…
Beyond instrumentalism: Broadening the understanding of social innovation in socio-technical energy systems
Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes, participatory governance approaches to energy questions, or new discourses. Its significance for energy systems is often considered in narrow instrumentalist terms, reducing it to a tool serving particular policy objectives. Grounding the concept in social science and h…
Value dynamics in energy democracy: An exploration of community energy initiatives
In the European Union, energy democracy (ED) is considered a socially desirable policy goal. One way to achieve ED is through empowering local communities to become agents of value change who can pursue more sustainable and equitable energy provision with community energy initiatives (CEI). However, such people-driven value change is complex in nature. CEIs are multifaceted sociotechnical systems that bring together sets of values and are compose…
Watt rules? Assessing decision-making practices on smart energy systems in Dutch city districts
This article analyzes ‘rules of the game’ that influence decision-making concerning the introduction of smart energy systems. Smart energy systems are considered as a solution to optimize and make energy systems ‘future-proof’. Their introduction, however, is challenged by a complex multi-stakeholder configuration, and by ‘rules of the game’ (institutional conditions) which are essential for the cooperation between stakeholders but perceived to b…
From city promotion via city marketing to city branding: Examining urban strategies in 23 Chinese cities
City promotion, city marketing and city branding are all frequently mentioned and examined in the literature on urban governance. Based on the goals and characteristics of different city branding strategies, this study identifies a growing level of sophistication from city promotion via city marketing to city branding and proposes that the degree of urban development of cities is positively related to the use of branding strategies. This proposit…
Co-creation as a social process for unlocking sustainable heating transitions in Europe
Providing heat is a key aspect of social life and a necessity for comfort and health in cold climates. Even though heat accounts for a large proportion of worldwide carbon emissions and is the largest energy end-use, it has remained largely untouched by efforts to decarbonize. Efforts to do so meet significant economic, social-psychological, technical and political challenges. Much is at stake. But what can make a difference? One increasingly dis…
Analyzing sectoral niche formation: The case of net-zero energy buildings in India
Die ethnischen Gruppen Xinjiangs: Kulturunterschiede und interethnische Beziehungen
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 507 - 509
A framework to analyze inclusion in smart energy city development: The case of Smart City Amsterdam
In response to unprecedented global urbanization, the smart city concept has emerged, leveraging ICT to enhance municipal efficiency and improve the quality of urban life. The concept of smart energy city (SEC) is closely related to smart cities, however, energy system development in a smart city context is often found eluding certain segments of society, which calls for more attention to inclusion in SEC development. In this paper, the research …
When does the energy transition impact household affordability? A mixed-methods comparison of fourteen coal and carbon-intensive regions
Energy affordability tends to be lower in phasing-out than in transitioning regions. • Regional conditions are strongly associated with energy affordability. • Global policies misaligned with regional transitions can undermine affordability. • Regional fossil-fuel dependency is associated with low energy affordability. • Aligning energy transition and regional development plans can favor affordability. Understanding what conditions promote or hin…
Testing the social, organizational, and governance factors for success in local low carbon energy initiatives
Evidence from academic studies that analyze social and institutional factors that influence success with community energy projects is scarce. To address this, we pose the question: What are the social, organizational, and governance factors that explain success with ‘local low-carbon energy initiatives’ (LLCEIs)? To answer this question, claims were first established pertaining to three groups of social factors: i.e. (i) those related to the LLCE…
Illustrating the use of concepts from the discipline of policy studies in energy research: An explorative literature review
Policy studies’ theory is under-utilized in energy research. • Policy studies’ concepts are embedded in integrated research frameworks. • More attention is needed from policy studies scholars to the energy domain. • Four key energy policy research clusters were identified in the literature. • Potential for use of policy studies’ concepts in energy research. With the increasing challenges the energy sector faces, energy policy strategies and instr…
Sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations: Reviewing research, market and societal trends
Research into the impact of innovative sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations is crucial to diversifying, scaling up, and accelerating the sustainable energy transition. Although there is vast research into sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations, research literature offers a fragmented collection of findings. A coherent overview of themes and insights regarding the transformative impact of innovative sustainable energy exper…
Can co-creation support local heat decarbonisation strategies? Insights from pilot projects in Bruges and Mechelen
Co-creation is often presented as a solution to challenges of achieving energy transitions. However, there is currently little known about how coordinating stakeholders, such as city administrations, interpret co-creation and the extent to which this influences co-creation processes. We draw on a recent project, which embedded co-creation in public decision-making about local-level, sustainable heating transitions. We specifically address the que…
Die ethnischen Gruppen Xinjiangs: Kulturunterschiede und interethnische Beziehungen
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 507 - 509
Tibet heute: Aspekte einer komplexen Situation
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 248 - 253
Local Governments Supporting Local Energy Initiatives: Lessons from the Best Practices of Saerbeck (Germany) and Lochem (The Netherlands)
The social dimension of the transition to a low carbon economy is a key challenge to cities. The establishment of local energy initiatives (LEIs) has recently been attracting attention. It is of great importance to draw lessons from best practices when LEIs have been facilitated by local governments and made a substantial contribution to greening local energy systems. The main research questions in this paper are: What lessons can be drawn from s…
Illustrating the use of concepts from the discipline of policy studies in energy research: An explorative literature review
Policy studies’ theory is under-utilized in energy research. • Policy studies’ concepts are embedded in integrated research frameworks. • More attention is needed from policy studies scholars to the energy domain. • Four key energy policy research clusters were identified in the literature. • Potential for use of policy studies’ concepts in energy research. With the increasing challenges the energy sector faces, energy policy strategies and instr…
Analyzing sectoral niche formation: The case of net-zero energy buildings in India
Watt rules? Assessing decision-making practices on smart energy systems in Dutch city districts
This article analyzes ‘rules of the game’ that influence decision-making concerning the introduction of smart energy systems. Smart energy systems are considered as a solution to optimize and make energy systems ‘future-proof’. Their introduction, however, is challenged by a complex multi-stakeholder configuration, and by ‘rules of the game’ (institutional conditions) which are essential for the cooperation between stakeholders but perceived to b…
Testing the social, organizational, and governance factors for success in local low carbon energy initiatives
Evidence from academic studies that analyze social and institutional factors that influence success with community energy projects is scarce. To address this, we pose the question: What are the social, organizational, and governance factors that explain success with ‘local low-carbon energy initiatives’ (LLCEIs)? To answer this question, claims were first established pertaining to three groups of social factors: i.e. (i) those related to the LLCE…
Input-Output Modeling for Smart City Development
While many national and local governments in the world are placing their bets on smart city development in countering challenges such as climate change, air pollution, and congestion, few know exactly how to develop them in practice. A high and rising number of publications has appeared addressing the concept of “smart city,” but not many address its implementation. This paper aims at a conceptual understanding of the smart city by describing its…
Beyond instrumentalism: Broadening the understanding of social innovation in socio-technical energy systems
Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes, participatory governance approaches to energy questions, or new discourses. Its significance for energy systems is often considered in narrow instrumentalist terms, reducing it to a tool serving particular policy objectives. Grounding the concept in social science and h…
Governing regional energy transitions? A case study addressing meta-governance of thirty energy regions in the Netherlands
There is increasing scholarly and policy attention to energy transition at the regional scale. This perspective article presents empirical insights from the Netherlands, a frontrunner that has been experimenting with, formulating and scaling regional energy strategies to thirty ‘energy regions’, with the goal of these regions contributing to the national climate goal, including but not limited to 35 TWh of solar and wind energy. The research ques…
Dirigir transiciones energéticas regionales? Un estudio de caso que aborda la metagobernanza de treinta regiones energéticas en los Países Bajos
Cada vez es mayor la atención que se presta a la transición energética a escala regional en el ámbito político y académico. Este artículo expone las experiencias empíricas de los Países Bajos, líderes en experimentación, formulación y desarrollo de estrategias energéticas regionales en treinta «regiones energéticas», con el objetivo de que estas regiones contribuyan al reto climático nacional, incluyendo pero no limitándose a 35 TWh de energía so…
Co-creation as a social process for unlocking sustainable heating transitions in Europe
Providing heat is a key aspect of social life and a necessity for comfort and health in cold climates. Even though heat accounts for a large proportion of worldwide carbon emissions and is the largest energy end-use, it has remained largely untouched by efforts to decarbonize. Efforts to do so meet significant economic, social-psychological, technical and political challenges. Much is at stake. But what can make a difference? One increasingly dis…
Performance agreements to ensure societal legitimacy in the social housing sector; an embedded case study of implementation in the Netherlands
In 2015 the Housing Act was revised in order to further regulate the social housing sector in the Netherlands and thereby improve the steering possibilities for the central government to coordinate housing associations. This included local performance agreements for social housing policy obtaining a legal status. By introducing this policy instrument central government seeks to facilitate and ensure the tri-partite cooperation between municipalit…
From city promotion via city marketing to city branding: Examining urban strategies in 23 Chinese cities
City promotion, city marketing and city branding are all frequently mentioned and examined in the literature on urban governance. Based on the goals and characteristics of different city branding strategies, this study identifies a growing level of sophistication from city promotion via city marketing to city branding and proposes that the degree of urban development of cities is positively related to the use of branding strategies. This proposit…
Renewable Energy Communities as a New Actor in Home Energy Savings
Renewable energy communities (RECs) might be an interesting new stakeholder in stimulating home energy-saving efforts by tenants and homeowners due to their potential of raising awareness locally and gaining public support for low-carbon energy and energy-savings projects, because RECs are often locally sited, in close social proximity of residents, and are already part of local structures and share local institutions. This comes with many benefi…
The Tax Complexity Index – A Survey-Based Country Measure of Tax Code and Framework Complexity
This paper introduces the Tax Complexity Index (TCI). The TCI comprehensively measures the complexity of countries’ corporate income tax systems faced by multinational corporations. It builds on surveys of highly experienced tax consultants of the largest international tax services networks. The TCI is composed of a tax code subindex covering tax regulations and a tax framework subindex covering tax processes and features. For a sample of 100 cou…
Can co-creation support local heat decarbonisation strategies? Insights from pilot projects in Bruges and Mechelen
Co-creation is often presented as a solution to challenges of achieving energy transitions. However, there is currently little known about how coordinating stakeholders, such as city administrations, interpret co-creation and the extent to which this influences co-creation processes. We draw on a recent project, which embedded co-creation in public decision-making about local-level, sustainable heating transitions. We specifically address the que…
Value dynamics in energy democracy: An exploration of community energy initiatives
In the European Union, energy democracy (ED) is considered a socially desirable policy goal. One way to achieve ED is through empowering local communities to become agents of value change who can pursue more sustainable and equitable energy provision with community energy initiatives (CEI). However, such people-driven value change is complex in nature. CEIs are multifaceted sociotechnical systems that bring together sets of values and are compose…
Transplanting good practices in Smart City development: A step-wise approach
The role of City Climate Networks in Promoting Citizen Participation in Municipalities: A Critical Multi-Case Analysis
Who is vulnerable in regional energy transitions? An intersectional energy justice analysis of the Rotterdam-the Hague region
A just energy transition requires not only the achievement of low-carbon goals but also the creation of fairer energy systems where special attention is given to identifying vulnerable groups and addressing the inequalities they experience. Governing energy transitions at the regional level may help formulate and implement tailored policies addressing vulnerabilities at the local level. However, there is limited understanding of the vulnerabiliti…
Does local ownership matter? A comparative analysis of fourteen wind energy projects in the Netherlands
Onshore wind energy projects are traditionally developed by commercial project developers. However, the development of these projects is increasingly encountering problems due to poor social acceptance and legal objections. In addition to commercial project developers, renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops) also develop onshore wind energy projects. These non-commercial entities are driven by local, ecological and egalitarian values and often s…
When does the energy transition impact household affordability? A mixed-methods comparison of fourteen coal and carbon-intensive regions
Energy affordability tends to be lower in phasing-out than in transitioning regions. • Regional conditions are strongly associated with energy affordability. • Global policies misaligned with regional transitions can undermine affordability. • Regional fossil-fuel dependency is associated with low energy affordability. • Aligning energy transition and regional development plans can favor affordability. Understanding what conditions promote or hin…
From green consumption to carbon inclusion: An examination of the Chinese government's adoption and implementation of climate policies
This study examines carbon inclusion as an innovative policy mechanism for addressing consumer‐side emissions within industrial ecosystems. Carbon inclusion quantifies and incentivizes individual low‐carbon behaviors, bridging consumer choices and industrial transformation. Using longitudinal analysis of China's green consumption and carbon inclusion policies (2013–2024), combined with text mining and expert interviews, we investigate how carbon …
Mapping the hydrogen transition in the Netherlands: A sociotechnical multi-system event sequence analysis
Hydrogen is considered a promising energy carrier that can potentially contribute to low-carbon energy systems and achieving climate goals. Its introduction, however, is complex, involving multiple emerging niches and developments across various sociotechnical systems. Despite its significance, the multi-system nature of hydrogen has received limited attention in sustainability transition scholarship. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by ex…
Business (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Engineering (12 works) · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Corporate governance (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Energy (signal processing (8 works)