Short communications
1.) Creating a ‘Collaboratory’ environment to transcend traditional research barriers: Insights from the United States. --Howard D. Grimes.
2.) Poverty, gender, and empowerment in sustained adoption of cleaner cooking systems: Making the case for refined measurement. --Praveen Kumar, Sumi Mehta.
3.) Decision models and data in human-building interactions. --Jörn von Grabe.
4.) Health, vulnerability, and energy: Assessing energy markets and consumer agency in New Zealand. --Rob Lawson, Kirsten Robertson, Ben Wooliscroft.
5.) Shunning nuclear power but not its waste: Assessing the risks of Australia becoming the world’s nuclear wasteland. --Mark Diesendorf.

Social science and energy studies
6.) Of collaboration or condemnation? Exploring the promise and pitfalls of architect-consultant collaborations for building performance simulation. --Sara Alsaadani, Clarice Bleil De Souza.

The acceptance of energy systems
7.) Biodiversity and wind energy in Kenya: Revealing landscape and wind turbine perceptions in the world’s wildlife capital. --Erik Nordman, Jane Mutinda.

Energy, consumption, and behavior
8.) Effective or ephemeral? The role of energy information dashboards in changing occupant energy behaviors. --Stephanie N. Timm, Brian M. Deal.
9.) The challenge of time shifting energy demand practices: Insights from Denmark. --Freja Friis, Toke Haunstrup Christensen.
10.) The politics of speeches, votes, and deliberations: Gendered legislating and energy policy-making in Germany and the United States. --Cornelia Fraune.
11.) Competition, carbon, and conservation: Assessing the energy savings potential of energy efficiency competitions. --Edward L. Vine, Christopher M. Jones.
12.) Insights from psychology about the design and implementation of energy interventions using the Behaviour Change Wheel. --Caroline Wilson, Melissa R. Marselle.

Energy institutions and governance
13.) Understanding the missing middlemen of domestic heating: Installers as a community of professional practice in the United Kingdom. --Faye Wade, Russell Hitchings, Michelle Shipworth.
14.) Renewable and distributed resources in a post-Paris low carbon future: The key role and political economy of sustainable electricity. --Mark Cooper.
15.) Electricity governance and the Western energy imbalance market in the United States: The necessity of interorganizational collaboration. --Stephanie Lenhart, Natalie Nelson-Marsh, Elizabeth J. Wilson, David Solan.
16.) Transmission transitions: Barriers, drivers, and institutional governance implications of Nordic transmission grid development. --Sandra Tenggren, Josefin Wangel, Måns Nilsson, Björn Nykvist.

Energy equity and justice
17.) The evolution of energy law and energy jurisprudence: Insights for energy analysts and researchers. --Raphael J. Heffron, Kim Talus.

Content analyses and media representations
18.) Media and policy in a complex adaptive system: Insights from wind energy legislation in the United States. --Hollie M. Smith, Jordan W. Smith, Linda Silka, Laura Lindenfeld, Christine Gilbert.

Book reviews
19.) Alternative oil supply infrastructures for the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic, T. Vlcek. IIPS and Muni Press, Brno (2015). 203 pp., paperback, tables, graphs, index, References, ISBN: 978-80-210-8035-5. --Matúš Mišík.
20.) The Electrification of Palestine: Current Flow, Ronen Shamir. Stanford University Press, US (2012). --Tamer Khatib, Abdalqader Athamna, Alkhansaa Saadeh, Fatima Qasrawi, ... Waseem Shanabli.
21.) Guruswamy L., Global Energy Justice: Law and Policy, West Academic Publishing, Minnesota, US (2016). 214 pages, $70.00, ISBN: 978-0-314-29161-. --Raphael J. Heffron.

Corrigendum
22.) Corrigendum to “Investments in renewable energies by German households: A matter of economics, social influences and ecological concern?” [Energy Res. Soc. Sci. 17 (2016) 1–9. --Ingo Kastner, Ellen Matthies.