Niches for a transition as a space for renegotiating the energy system: The case of self-consumption

Les « niches » de transition comme espace de renégociation du système énergétique: le cas de l’autoconsommation

Élodie Gigout, Julie Mayer () and Hervé Dumez
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Élodie Gigout: CRG I3 - Centre de recherche en gestion i3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Julie Mayer: CRG I3 - Centre de recherche en gestion i3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Hervé Dumez: CRG I3 - Centre de recherche en gestion i3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Self-consumption, an emerging practice, is considered to be a lever for the energy transition. Paradoxically however, its development on a large scale is controversial. Defined as an entity's consumption of the energy that it has produced locally, the launching of self-consumption has encountered problems and stirred up controversies among all players in the energy sector in France. Schot & Geels' (2007) concept of "strategic niche management" is used to shed on this new theme. The self-consumption of electricity is taken to be a window of opportunity for an experimentation that might, under specific conditions, help to deeply change the established system. Identifying the niche to be used to transform a system is easy to do ex post ; but choosing a niche while it is still a niche is a matter, we assume, of lively debate. How do actors, through the discourses that orient their practices, take sides in this debate about self-consumption ? On the one side, those who want a controlled development of the niche and, on the other side, those who want to change the system…

Keywords: Selfconsumption; MLP; niche; energy transition; Autoconsommation; transition énergétique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-09
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Published in Gérer et Comprendre. Annales des Mines, 2021, N° 145 (3), pp.3-12. ⟨10.3917/geco1.145.0003⟩

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