Conclusion: three overarching themes for understanding decentralisation in future low-carbon electricity systems

Per Ove Eikeland, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg and Siddharth Sareen

Chapter 20 in Are Low-Carbon Futures Decentralised?, 2025, pp 244-252 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This concluding chapter draws together and fleshes out the three overarching themes that run through the chapters featured in this edited volume. It focuses on decentralisation as a governance manoeuvre as the theme where the book makes its main substantive contribution, revisiting some of the key insights from the chapters in an integrative manner. It also reflects upon how decentralisation is addressed as an infrastructural innovation. Lastly, it discusses how decentralisation is contextualised as taking place in a hyper-connected, digitalised electric system, the extent of which makes a qualitative difference to the ontological nature and implications of decentralisation as a governance trend. While most weight is placed on the takeaways for the governance of future electric systems, this conclusion also reflects upon lessons learnt in this collective endeavour to understand the emergent properties of evolving, spatially diversifying electric systems.

Keywords: Decentralisation; Governance; Digitalisation; Infrastructure; Innovation; Electric (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035355181
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