Unpacking Green Discontent: Precarious Homeowners and Progressive Renters in the German Domestic Energy Transition

An emerging body of research has documented the rise of green discontent in peripheralised and 'left-behind' regions. While existing studies have often focused on job losses associated with the productive transition, this project shifts attention to the underexplored field of domestic energy transitions. Retrofit and the transition to renewable heating systems directly affect household finances and have the potential to cause significant green discontent. At the example of Germany, this project investigates the drivers of perceived injustices in the domestic energy transition and their relation to overlapping spatial inequality, especially entrenched inequality between East and West German regions.