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Smart Grids the Human Scale: Investigating Householder Participation in the Decentralization, Digitalization and Decarbonization of Energy Grids in the Netherlands /

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Title/Author:	Smart Grids the Human Scale: Investigating Householder Participation in the Decentralization, Digitalization and Decarbonization of Energy Grids in the Netherlands // Robin Smale.
Author:	Smale, Robin,
Description:	1 electronic resource (189 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-10B.
Subject:	Innovations. -
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ISBN:	9798209918271

Smart Grids the Human Scale: Investigating Householder Participation in the Decentralization, Digitalization and Decarbonization of Energy Grids in the Netherlands /
Smale, Robin,

Smart Grids the Human Scale: Investigating Householder Participation in the Decentralization, Digitalization and Decarbonization of Energy Grids in the Netherlands /Robin Smale. - 1 electronic resource (189 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-10, Section: B.

Smart grids are heralded as promising socio-technical innovation and a comprehensive solution for making the energy grid more flexible and green. Smart grids innovations presume the involvement of householders, who, by conserving, monitoring, and timing their consumption with the help of various smart technologies and information flows, contribute to the sustainability and stability of the electricity grid. In this context, grid operator, energy producing companies, governments and other actors are redefining their relationships to each other and to citizens. These actors have to face the desires, values and actions of citizens. Meeting this challenge requires a closer investigation of the character and trajectory of householder engagement with smart grids. Further research is required into the needs and desires which (de)motivate householder engagement with smart grids. An analysis of the human scale of smart grids must account for the collectively shared meanings, aspirations and emotional attachments of householders. For these reasons, this thesis dives more deeply into the normative and motivational dimensions of householder participation and agency in smart grids.The thesis aims to enhance our understanding of emerging and transforming domestic energy practices enabled by smart grid innovations, and their consequences for sustainable grid management and the relationship between system actors, energy collectives, and households in Europe. The character of householder participation in smart grids is assessed critically in terms of empowerment to self-organize or co-construct democratic, sustainable energy systems and sustainable lifestyles. The term 'human scale' is introduced as means of broadening our view of householder involvement in energy transitions far beyond formal processes of participation. Moreover, the thesis aims to generate insights and recommendations into how participation of householders in smart grids could be supported by governance strategies and policies from the side of both energy providers and (national and EU) government. To achieve these aims, three main research questions were posed:• How do smart grid objectives and technologies interact with householder goals and preferences with respect to energy use and generation, and how does their implementation co-shape energy management practices, householder agency and power relations?• How do wider sociotechnical configurations of smart grids engage and empower (collectives of) householders, such as those involving energystorage and digital infrastructures? (How) can householder co-shape those wider configurations?• What are the implications of this analysis for stakeholder strategies and energy policies and governance concerning the co-construction of smart grids at human scales in the near future?In order to answer the main research questions, a theoretical framework is applied which conceptualizes the interaction between households and energy systems in the context of smart grids. Social practice theory is used to identify two levels of analysis. The first is the situated, single household, which is the site of home energy management (practices). The second level encompasses the wider sociotechnical configurations in which (collectives of) householders can participate in the context of smart grids. The engagement and empowerment of householders is investigated in relation to home energy management and in relation to energy managing collectives. A conceptual framework is presented which places emerging home energy management (HEM) practices at the interface between the home and wider energy systems.

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Smart Grids the Human Scale: Investigating Householder Participation in the Decentralization, Digitalization and Decarbonization of Energy Grids in the Netherlands /
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