Akademik Məlumat İdarəetmə Sistemi
Energy Research and Social Science, vol.135, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
This study examines whether the digitalization of housing-decarbonization administration redistributes unpaid household labour across the European Union. It addresses a gap in energy-transition research, which has focused mainly on technologies and costs while paying less attention to the time and coordination work required to access, manage, and comply with retrofit programmes. The study uses a convergent mixed-methods design. A country-level comparative model links weekly housework hours to online completion of official forms, digital skills, paid working hours, and material deprivation. This analysis is interpreted alongside thematic evidence from policy documents, news coverage, and e-petitions. Higher online form completion is associated with lower average weekly housework hours, suggesting that digital procedures can reduce some coordination costs in higher-capacity settings. The qualitative evidence qualifies this pattern by showing that interface learning, documentation, tariff comparison, and landlord coordination remain largely invisible in policy discourse and are often shifted to households. These burdens are especially salient for women and renters. The study argues that evaluating digitalized decarbonization requires not only emissions and efficiency metrics but also procedural justice criteria that recognize hidden coordination work. Policies must therefore mitigate, not merely acknowledge, the gendered time burdens arising from interface learning, documentation, and landlord coordination—burdens that fall disproportionately on women, renters, and digitally disadvantaged households.