Pilot Society and the Energy Transition : : The Co-Shaping of Innovation, Participation and Politics.

• Author: Ryghaug, Marianne.
• TeilnehmendeR: Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (137 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Chapter 1: Transforming Society Through Pilot and Demonstration Projects
• Introduction
• Innovation and Politics Through Pilot and Demonstration Projects
• Sustainability Transitions: A Socio-technical Backdrop
• From Multi-level Perspectives to Symmetrical Understandings of the Social and Technical Processes of Sustainability Transitions
• The Empirical Field: A Brief Look on Trends and Developments
• References
• Chapter 2: The Co-production of Pilot Projects and Society
• Introduction: Why Study Pilot Projects?
• Exploring the Shaping of Pilot Projects
• Technology-Oriented Trials: From Laboratories to Regional Specificities
• A Smart Grid Laboratory for the Purely Technical?
• Technology Trials Outside the Laboratory
• The High-tech Neighbourhoods of the Smart Grid
• The Smart Grid Shaped by Healthcare Actors
• Geographically Bound Pilots
• The Island as an Example
• The National Pilot-Project
• The Norwegian Case of Electromobility
• The Significance of How Demonstration Projects Are Shaped
• Beyond Pilots: Understanding Pilot Projects in Broader Energy and Sustainability Transitions
• Upscaling and Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Pilot Projects?
• How Pilots Scale Up: An Example
• Implications for the Literature on Upscaling: From Patterns and Mechanisms to Strategies
• Concluding Discussion: Towards an Appreciation of the Political Character of Pilots and Demonstration Projects
• References
• Chapter 3: Democratic and Participatory Pilot Projects?
• The Orchestration of Participation in Pilot and Demonstration Projects
• Collectives of Policy Production and Regulation
• Collectives of Research, Development and Innovation
• Collectives of Design
• Technology Users as Orchestrators of Participation.
• Implications of Perspectives from Studies of Ecologies of Participation, Contestation and Orchestration
• An Object-oriented Perspective: Material Participation
• Energy Citizenship as Means of Material Participation
• The Co-production of Energy Citizenship in Collectives with Electric Vehicles
• Pilot Projects and the Production of Collective Energy Citizenship
• The Material Political Dynamics of Shared of EV-charging
• The Role of National Legislation in the Orchestrating New Material Political Dynamics
• Promoting Smart Charging Through Highlighting Values such as Fairness and Equality
• Citizens and Elected Housing Boards Co-producing Material Participation
• Conclusion: Orchestration, Participation and New Collective Material Politics
• References
• Chapter 4: Catering for Socio-technical Transformations: Rethinking Technology Policy for Inclusive Transformation
• Transforming the Innovation Practices of Pilot Projects
• The Challenge of the Social: Socio-technical Asymmetries in Pilot and Demonstration Projects
• The Orchestration of Research and Innovation Through Funding
• Re-thinking Transformative Innovation in Inclusive, Material and Human Terms
• Conclusion: Democratic Innovation for Inclusive Transformation
• References
• Correction to: Pilot Society and the Energy Transition
• References
• Index.