Digitisation and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions.

• Author: Sareen, Siddharth.
• TeilnehmendeR: Müller, Katja.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (176 p.)

The world is digitising as the need for low-carbon transitions gains urgency. Decarbonising energy requires the digital process control of energy production, transmission and end use. Diversified electrification across sectors requires real-time digital coordination of distributed energy production, At the same time, digitisation is accompanied by significant increases in energy demand, partly compensated through energy efficiency gains. The emergent linkages between digitisation and decarbonisation – that constitute and enable the twin transition – are the subject of this book. The collection features authors from across the social sciences who situate digitisation and low-carbon energy transitions in the socio-technical and political economic contexts in which they unfold, to offer insights on the dynamics and contingencies of digitisation in and beyond the energy sector. This is an open access book.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Exhibition Figures -- Digitisation and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions -- Introduction -- Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction -- Data Generation and Rebound Effects -- Situating digitisation -- Realising Imaginaries -- Conclusion -- References -- Just Low-Carbon Mobility Transitions: A Research-Based Art Exhibition -- Situating Digitisation -- A Solar Off-Grid Software: The Making of Infrastructures, Markets and Consumers 'Beyond Energy' -- The Promise of Solar -- Buying Through Pay-As-You-Go -- Paying in Instalments -- Creating a Record of Usage and Payment Data -- Forging Consumers by Digitizing the 'Unelectrified' -- Concluding Remarks: Off-Grid Solar and Its Digital Record -- References -- Contested Energy Futures in Hokkaido: Speculating with European Renewable Energy Models -- Introduction -- IoT Society, Energy Blockchain and Promises -- Contesting Energy Futures in Hokkaido -- Models for Speculation -- References -- Overcoming Abstraction: Affectual States in the Efforts to Decarbonize Energy Among Young Climate Activists in Stavanger, Norway -- Introduction -- The Realness of 'Here' and 'Now' -- Concreteness and Abstraction as Affectual States -- Limits to the Perceived Benefits of Concreteness -- Conclusion -- References -- Realising Imaginaries -- A New Reflexive Turn: Glitches, Carbon Footprints, and Streaming Videos in Visual Anthropology -- Introduction -- Superhuman Sight -- Small Media Files and the Glitch Arts -- Multiple Visual Anthropologies -- References -- The Hidden Energies of Work Digitisation: A View from France Through the Use of Coworking Spaces -- Introduction -- Coworking as Part of a Life Project: A Life Choice, an Ecological Choice -- Finding the Right Distance: From Home Working to Coworking.

Silent Consumption: The Consumptions of Remote Working -- Conclusion -- References -- Littering the City or Freedom of Mobility? The Case of Electric Scooters -- Introduction -- Data and Methods -- The Twin Transition of the Electric Scooter -- Theoretical Perspectives: The Co-production of Socio-Technical Change and Spatial Justice -- Innovation as Co-produced -- Spatial Justice Perspectives -- Spatial Justice Aspects of E-scooter Innovation and Use -- Digital Urban Mobility: Access to the Paths and Freedom of Movement as an Embodied Practice -- Matter Out of Place: The Digitised Urban Landscape in Flow -- References -- Mediatised Practices: Renovating Homes with Media and ICTs in Australia -- Introduction: Home Renovation as a Transition to Lower Carbon Living -- Methodology and Profiles of Participating Households -- The Mediatised Home -- Media as Informal Intermediaries of Renovation -- Finding 1: Media as Informal Intermediaries That Shape the Meanings of Renovation -- Finding 2: Media and ICTs as Important Materials of the Renovation Practice -- Finding 3: Media as Co-creators and Connectors of Communities of Practice that Shape Renovators' Competences -- Conclusion -- References -- Correction to: Overcoming Abstraction: Affectual States in the Efforts to Decarbonize Energy Among Young Climate Activists in Stavanger, Norway -- Correction to: Chapter "Overcoming Abstraction: Affectual States in the Efforts to Decarbonize Energy Among Young Climate Activists in Stavanger, Norway" in: S. Sareen and K. Müller (eds.), Digitisation and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16708-9_5 -- Index.