Energy communities of repair in remote infrastructures
A study of Puerto Edén in the Chilean Patagonia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22014660 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gloria Baigorrotegui (0000-0002-8381-5728, Universidad de Santiago de Chile), Dominique González (0009-0001-0055-8114, Universidad de Santiago de Chile), Cristián P Parker (0000-0001-8041-9642, Universidad de Santiago de Chile) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 122-139 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sustainability in Debate (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2177-7675 • E-ISSN: 2179-9067 |
| Publisher | Editora de Livros IABS (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18472/sustdeb.v14n3.2023.50672 |
| OpenAlex | W4389780105 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Energy communities contribute to the justice of energy transition efforts to enhance the democratisation of contemporary energy policies. We ask what kind of circumstances and practices facilitate the continuity of energy access in remote communities with lagging infrastructures. To answer this question, we propose an approach to researching energy communities of repair based on a study of Puerto Edén, a remote island in the Chilean Patagonia. Since 2020, research has been carried out in this locality using an ethnographic and interactive methodology from a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective through systematic fieldwork. The results demonstrate the challenges these communities face as they address deficiencies in governance, providing provisional and definitive solutions. Abandonment of renewable infrastructure could be avoided if historic energy repair communities in remote locations are identified and involved in just energy transition programs
Business · Corporate governance · Democracy · Democratization · Economics · Energy transition · Environmental resource management · Geography · Lagging · Locality · Management · Political science · Politics · Renewable energy · Sociotechnical system · Energy and Environment Impacts · Engineering · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Rethinking Repair
Matters of care
The afterlives of solar power
Evidence behind the narrative
A Postcolonial Critique of Community Energy
Exploring the transition potential of renewable energy communities
Foregrounding the community
Material Ordering and the Care of Things
Frail modernities
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |