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Energy justice has shifted from the margins to become a central aspect of energy transitions research, argues Destenie Nock.

As the grid adapts to a changing energy landscape, its traditional role must evolve to balance cost, reliability, and emerging system priorities through fresh thinking in technology, markets, and institutional design, says Mark O’Malley.

Nuclear power continues to pose economic and practical barriers to expanded deployment, argues M. V. Ramana.

As digital tools and sector coupling enable coordinated infrastructure and empower stakeholders, integrated energy systems are driving the transition to low-carbon urban energy, writes Jinyue Yan.

Battery technology has advanced at extraordinary speed over the past decade, yet meeting the world’s accelerating electrification needs will require both continued evolution of lithium-ion systems and further progress in next-generation chemistries, writes Peter Bruce.

Electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide (CO₂) — an emerging approach using electricity to produce useful molecules — has advanced enormously over the past ten years. However, to progress further, we must move away from the traditional static description of catalytic surfaces, argues Beatriz Roldan Cuenya.

To curb greenhouse gas emissions from conventional vapour compression cooling technologies, it is necessary to develop refrigerants with low global warming potential and solid-state caloric cooling devices, argues Ichiro Takeuchi.

Martin Green discusses how, over the past decade — and continuing today — we have witnessed a rapid increase in solar photovoltaic installations, a sharp decline in costs, and swift transitions in the dominant market technologies.

Financial support and research must concentrate on levelling the playing field to ensure emerging and developing economies will benefit from electrification, argues Florian Egli.

After years of technical advances and billions in public funding, carbon capture’s promise now depends on creative alliances — between incumbents and innovators, across borders and sectors — to safeguard past investments and deliver lasting climate impact, writes Jennifer Wilcox.

Wind variability, turbine wake effects, and extreme events are not just challenges but opportunities to deepen our understanding of the atmosphere and enhance the resilience of wind energy systems, argues Julie Lundquist.

This issue marks ten years of Nature Energy, offering a moment to reflect on a decade of energy research and to look ahead at what comes next.

The hydrogen ecosystem has developed substantially over the past decade, yet investment volatility and other challenges will require a reinvigorated and cohesive effort to enable success, writes Sunita Satyapal.

Transport electrification is reshaping energy and mobility systems while posing infrastructure, supply chain, and societal challenges that demand bold, interconnected research, argues Patrick Plötz.

A wide range of policies and actions can be used to address energy insecurity, and there are many actors and institutions to carry them out. This Perspective provides an overview of the many levers, or opportunities, that electricity sector actors have to reduce energy insecurity and affordability in the United States.

Eutectic aqueous–organic electrolytes enable highly reversible zinc–manganese batteries without acid addition. By regulating the water-bonding network, beneficial manganese oxide phases are deposited and stripped while gas formation is suppressed, achieving ultraextended cycling.

Sluggish interfacial charge transfer in Li-metal batteries limits ultrafast charging and causes side reactions. The authors design solvent molecules to enhance Li⁺ coordination, improving the charge-transfer kinetics and enabling stable high-rate cycling of Li-metal cells.

As Europe gradually phases out its fossil-fuel imports, some producer economies face rising risks. With careful management, the European Union can turn this shift into an opportunity to advance both climate leadership and geopolitical stability.

Metal halide perovskites exhibit anharmonic lattice vibrations, which lead to high rates of thermal expansion in solar cells. In this Review, Julian A. Steele links the atomistic origins of these effects to the macroscopic thermo-mechanical properties of the materials and devices.