Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7445188 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harald Rohracher (0000-0003-3945-0183), Julia Velkova, Dick Magnusson (0000-0001-7060-9282), Mosen Farhangi (0000-0002-5162-0635) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Pages | 100943-100943 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2210-4224 • E-ISSN: 2210-4232 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100943 |
| OpenAlex | W4404834497 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 38 |
High shares of renewable energy generation, digitalisation, and increased electrification are putting energy systems in flux. In this article we examine the ways households actively re-configure energy system relations at the local level and become agents in the ongoing energy transition. Drawing on assemblage theory, we foreground processes of emergence, the multiplicity of current configurations and the assemblage work required to create new infrastructure constellations. Through semi-structured interviews with households in Sweden and on-site visits we explore different situations where ambitions and desires of households, energy system actors and data service providers intersect and create particular logics of change. While assemblage work may result in households temporarily gaining greater agency by pursuing ideas of self-sufficiency, controlling their bills or the convenience of controlling devices, utilities and app providers also try to tap into this assemblage and integrate it towards a different logic of electricity grid governance or the data economy
Agency (philosophy · Business · Economics · Energy (signal processing · Energy transition · Environmental economics · Natural resource economics · Physics · Political science · Renewable energy · Social science · Sociology · Sustainable development · Sustainable Energy · Transition (genetics · Chemistry · Energy and Environment Impacts · Engineering · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Law
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |