Designing institutional technologies for decentralised energy governance

Viktor Bukovszki and Michael Mrissa

Chapter 2 in Are Low-Carbon Futures Decentralised?, 2025, pp 27-37 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The road to shift our energy systems away from fossil fuels is driving a decentralisation of both the technical infrastructure and energy governance. Motivated by the argument that the two are interdependent, this chapter addresses the issue of taking principles of governance and articulating them as requirements for digital technologies. The chapter introduces and demonstrates a novel conceptual framework to read literature in governance studies and extract technology requirements. The framework can be used to identify institutional technologies – those that create, substitute, or substantially influence governance. As a demonstration, we use it to analyse three seminal papers from political science, exploring the concepts of democratic anchorage, agonistic pluralism, and epistemic justice. A widespread application of this framework will allow for more practical scrutiny of digital technologies, which ultimately should result in systems not only designed for technical standards, but also that overcome well-known governance risks of decentralisation, such as effectiveness and legitimacy.

Keywords: Energy; Governance; Decentralisation; Institutional technology; Design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035355181
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