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

Chapter 1 in Are Low-Carbon Futures Decentralised?, 2025, pp 1-25 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The electric grid and cognate infrastructures are crucial for urgent low-carbon transitions premised on the rapid low-carbon electrification of numerous sectors. This introduction, like the book, takes its point of departure as the changing governance of collective electricity systems. Rather than assuming a directional flow, it asks: are low-carbon futures decentralised? This conceptual synthesis articulates three overarching themes along which discussions of how this shift is being governed play out in this book and in wider thematic scholarship. The first theme is decentralisation as a governance manoeuvre, where chapters shed light on the diverse dynamics this exhibits in a range of contexts. The second theme is decentralisation as an infrastructural innovation, which directs attention to the sociomateriality entailed in this governance shift, and their recursive relationship. The third theme is decentralisation in a hyper-connected, digitalised electricity system, which takes on board key implications of emergent data infrastructures in the electricity system.

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