Renewable energy communities assembling energy governance

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI:10.1016/j.erss.2025.104085

Costanza Concetti

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Abstract

This article investigates the material politics of collective prosumption governance in Italy. In doing so, it aims to fill a gap in the energy social science literature on how the materialities of changing power systems are affecting and shaping transition pathways. Methodologically following Barad, it reads diffractively the latest decree regulating and incentivising community energy and groups of prosumer schemes in the country, Decree 199/2021, through documents published by the national Transmission System Operator, Terna. It complements this work with data from other technical documents and 20 semi-structured online interviews to posit that the sociomaterial configurations of the electricity grid in Italy actively participate in the assemblage of the country's energy governance and instigate an incentivisation of electricity prosumption as production in spaces of consumption. The results section maps how such governance engenders spatiotemporal arrangements of the electricity system meant to both solve present criticalities and ease the pathway to desired future configurations. The conclusion raises questions about the political implications of a governance strategy assembled so intensely by the needs of a black-boxed system only fully comprehensible to experts.

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可再生能源社区聚集能源治理

本文考察了意大利集体消费治理的物质政治。在这样做的过程中，它旨在填补能源社会科学文献中关于不断变化的电力系统的物质如何影响和塑造过渡途径的空白。在方法上遵循Barad，它通过国家输电系统运营商Terna发布的文件，以不同的方式阅读了规范和激励该国社区能源和产消费群体计划的最新法令，第199/2021号法令。它补充了来自其他技术文件和20个半结构化在线访谈的数据，以假设意大利电网的社会物质配置积极参与国家能源治理的组合，并激励电力消费作为消费空间的生产。结果部分描绘了这种治理如何产生电力系统的时空安排，旨在解决当前的关键问题，并简化通往预期未来配置的途径。这一结论提出了一个问题，即治理战略的政治含义是由一个只有专家才能完全理解的黑箱系统的需求如此强烈地组合在一起的。

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Energy Research & Social Science ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

14.00

自引率

16.40%

发文量

441

审稿时长

55 days

期刊介绍： Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles examining the relationship between energy systems and society. ERSS covers a range of topics revolving around the intersection of energy technologies, fuels, and resources on one side and social processes and influences - including communities of energy users, people affected by energy production, social institutions, customs, traditions, behaviors, and policies - on the other. Put another way, ERSS investigates the social system surrounding energy technology and hardware. ERSS is relevant for energy practitioners, researchers interested in the social aspects of energy production or use, and policymakers. Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss how social and technical issues related to energy production and consumption interact. Energy production, distribution, and consumption all have both technical and human components, and the latter involves the human causes and consequences of energy-related activities and processes as well as social structures that shape how people interact with energy systems. Energy analysis, therefore, needs to look beyond the dimensions of technology and economics to include these social and human elements.