Are Low-Carbon Futures Decentralised?

Edited by Siddharth Sareen (), Per Ove Eikeland () and Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg ()

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Abstract: This insightful book examines the role of the electricity grid and cognate infrastructures in driving the low-carbon transition, addressing the key question: are low-carbon futures decentralised? Featuring chapters by renowned international experts, the book explores decentralisation as both a governance manoeuvre and infrastructural innovation, reflecting on the relationship between emergent data infrastructures and electricity systems.

Keywords: Low-Carbon Futures; Electricity; Governance; Decentralisation; Infrastructure; Digitalisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035355181
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Are low-carbon futures decentralised? Directional flows in the changing governance of collective electricity systems

Siddharth Sareen, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg and Per Ove Eikeland

Ch 2 Designing institutional technologies for decentralised energy governance

Viktor Bukovszki and Michael Mrissa

Ch 3 Quantum transformation of electrical systems: the potential for decentralisation of infrastructures, governance, and organisational structures

Boris Kantsepolsky

Ch 4 Transition tensions: transmission lines in visions of European Union decentralisation

Daniel Wuebben

Ch 5 The concept of building a structurally variable power system

Sergii Saukh

Ch 6 How distributed energy will affect the existing power system

Fereidoon Sioshansi

Ch 7 Weather, shifting demands and conflict: analysing electric outages across the European Union and Ukraine

Thomas Ptak and Julie Brooks

Ch 8 Regional energy hubs with integrated hydrogen in the Netherlands: an exploratory design perspective

Mahshid Hasankhani

Ch 9 Scale, governance and net zero: decentralisation versus centralisation in electricity

Michael Pollitt

Ch 10 Transformation to a polycentric grid with distributed energy systems

Maarten Wolsink

Ch 11 Citizen participation in the electricity system: a reflection on energy democracy in Swedish energy communities

Jenny Palm

Ch 12 Energy infrastructure planning for positive energy city districts: the sector-coupling pathways for the new city district of Dietenbach in Freiburg, Germany

Arian Mahzouni

Ch 13 Decentralised energy management in households through event-driven tariffs and smart meters: a German case study

Claudius Kübler, Jiayin Fu and Matthias Grandel

Ch 14 Halfway to decentralisation? Understanding the energy paradigm shift in Italy

Giada F.P. Coleandro

Ch 15 Designing a multi-level organisational model for implementing sustainable energy communities in Colombia

Georg Heinemann, Ana María Ramírez Tovar and Pasha Alidadi

Ch 16 Building back better? Reviewing scenarios of a decentralised post-war electricity system in Ukraine

Nadiya Kostyuchenko, Cristian Pons-Seres de Brauwer, Adrian Rinscheid and Rolf Wüstenhagen

Ch 17 Centralisation and decentralisation of Norwegian utilities

Kjersti Aarrestad and Jørgen Bjørndalen

Ch 18 ‘Future-gazing’: how floating offshore wind can revitalise European large energy-intensive industries

Julian Gregory

Ch 19 Electric futures in Türkiye: decentralisation, regulatory trends, and carbon tax implications

Mine Sertsöz

Ch 20 Conclusion: three overarching themes for understanding decentralisation in future low-carbon electricity systems

Per Ove Eikeland, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg and Siddharth Sareen

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