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ReviewiScience2026

Grid development for energy justice and a just transition.

Fernando Tormos-Aponte

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Review in iScience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Fernando Tormos-AponteDepartment of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 230 South Bouquet Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The decline in the resilience of the US power grid and its territories is a matter of life and death and undermines well-being. Energy access, affordability, and reliability are central to environmental justice and key social determinants of health and mobility; yet, inequalities in grid reliability remain under-addressed. Drawing on the observations and research on the Hurricane María outages, this perspective discusses the unequal consequences of grid unreliability and argues that environmental justice and just transition principles offer fruitful ways forward. Grid-resilience efforts grounded in these approaches can reduce loss of life, economic losses, and disruptions to healthcare systems and medical supply chains. I call for targeted investments in grid development for energy-oppressed communities, closing data gaps on medical and social vulnerability, and measures to curtail energy clientelism and corruption. Grid resilience is not solely a technical and economic problem but a social one requiring an environmental justice approach.

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energy democracyenergy justiceenergy oppressionenvironmental justicegrid resilienceHurricane Maríajust transitionpower outagesPuerto Ricosocial vulnerability

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PMID42502381
PMCPMC13400847

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