Sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations: Reviewing research, market and societal trends
Reviewartikel, 2025
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 experiments and demonstrations on sustainable energy systems from the past, present, and near future is lacking and necessary to increase experiments and demonstrations' impact on the sustainable energy transition. The research in this study fills this knowledge gap by providing such an overview and yields novel insights into the organized function and impact of experiments and demonstrations. It spans a broad spectrum of sustainable energy technologies, the empirical domains where these are invented, developed and applied, and the stakeholders involved. The overview is the outcome of a Delphi study in which the insights of 47 international scientific research experts in sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations are bundled and explained. This study presents a thematic overview of the significant insights regarding past and current sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations and outlines a research agenda for the future. Policymakers, practitioners, and scientists can leverage this to inform their sustainable energy policies, business strategies, and research programs.
Pilot projects
Technology
Demonstrations
Transitions
Experiments
Sustainable energy
Demonstration plans
Pilot plants
innovation
Författare
Sandra Hasanefendic
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Marjolein Hoogstraaten
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Martin Bloemendal
TU Delft
Wouter Boon
Universiteit Utrecht
Han Brezet
Aalborg Universitet
Maryse Chappin
Universiteit Utrecht
Lars Coenen
Høgskulen på Vestlandet (HVL)
Yuxi Dai
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Remi Elzinga
Universiteit Utrecht
Paula Femenias
Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Byggnadsdesign
Johan Frishammar
Luleå tekniska universitet
Nicolien van der Grijp
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Anke van Hal
Nyenrode Business Universiteit
Elizabeth von Hauff
Technische Universität Dresden
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Renée Heller
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Hans Hellsmark
Environmental Systems Analysis 00
Thomas Hoppe
Universiteit Twente
Olindo Isabella
TU Delft
Matthijs J. Janssen
Universiteit Utrecht
Jenni Kaipainen
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)
Tamas Keviczky
TU Delft
Mohammad Ali Khosravi
TU Delft
Thaleia Konstantinou
TU Delft
Stefan Kwant
Universiteit Utrecht
Janneke van der Leer
Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Byggnadsdesign
Adriaan van der Loos
Universiteit Utrecht
Zhongxuan Ma
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christian May
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Toon Meelen
Universiteit Utrecht
Erwin Mlecnik
TU Delft
Trivess Moore
RMIT University
Mette Alberg Mosgaard
Aalborg Universitet
Seyedesmaeil Mousavi
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Simona O. Negro
Universiteit Utrecht
Gregory Nemet
University of Wisconsin Madison
Marianna Nigra
Politecnico di Torino
David Reiner
University of Cambridge
Frank van Rijnsoever
Universiteit Utrecht
Marianne Ryghaug
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Rudi Santbergen
TU Delft
Svein Gunnar Sjøtun
Høgskulen på Vestlandet (HVL)
Iva Ridjan Skov
Aalborg Universitet
Tomas Moe Skjølsvold
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Carla Smink
Aalborg Universitet
Patrik Soderholm
Luleå tekniska universitet
Sybrith Tiekstra
Aalborg Universitet
Philip Vardon
TU Delft
Gerdien de Vries
TU Delft
Rong Wang
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Bart Bossink
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Energy Research and Social Science
22146296 (ISSN) 22146326 (eISSN)
Vol. 122 104018Drivkrafter
Hållbar utveckling
Innovation och entreprenörskap
Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)
Byggprocess och förvaltning
Styrkeområden
Energi
DOI
10.1016/j.erss.2025.104018