Climate, Power, and Possible Futures, from the Banks of the Humber Estuary

Abstract

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Exploring the energy informatics and energy citizenship domains: A Systematic Literature Review

“…This, researchers warn, can result in fatigue, a false sense of positive action, dilution of citizenship, and result in citizens mediating in environmental politics [103]. Researchers have argued that this individualization of energy citizen who is also a consumer does not consider social complexities such as energy poor [104,117] and energy transition should not be viewed as a mere substitution of one fuel for another as it presents challenges and opportunities to rethink how our society and politics around energy is executed [107] When discussing energy citizenship, it has been argued that materialistic possession of objects (rooftop solar panels, electric heaters, smart meters, electric vehicles, etc.) allows prosumers to interact with new objects and technology which facilitates their participation and may act as the initiation of energy citizenship or energy democracy [152], yet technology on its own, does not create energy citizenship.…”