Conflicting strategies towards sustainable heating at an urban junction of heat infrastructure and building standards

Späth, Philipp; Rohracher, Harald

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2014.12.019

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“…It also elaborates on the policy learning process contributing to broader socio-technical change within and between cities. The papers by Gabillet (2015), Hannon and Bolton (2015), Monstadt and Wolff (2015), Webb (2015) and Späth and Rohracher (2015) all delve into how decisions were made and the learning process in local municipal authorities and organizations. Verdeil et al (2015), Hannon and Bolton (2015) and Webb (2015) focus on the subsidies, finance and economic arrangements that also constitute an important resource in the construction of local capacity to act and effect change.…”

Section: Capacity-buildingmentioning

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“…As Monstadt and Wolff (2015) summarize: "cities are critical for both enabling and constraining energy transitions". Political debate, friction and dissonance emerge over the strategic direction and degree of change, but also around particular policy choices and decisions (e.g., privatization) or around material sites and planning projects (Gabillet, 2015;Verdeil et al, 2015;Blanchet, 2015;Späth and Rohracher, 2015) which come to emblematize diverging points of view on future urban energy configurations. Some papers analyze, for example, how urban authorities use energy and energy-related strategies or policies to do things differently (or deviantly) to national regulatory frameworks or to bypass centralized control (Webb, 2015;Hannon and Bolton, 2015;Monstadt and Wolff, 2015).…”

Section: Urban Politicizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Introduction to the special issue – Urban energy governance: Local actions, capacities and politics

Rutherford

Jaglin

2015

Energy Policy

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Section: Capacity-buildingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Urban Politicizationmentioning

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Introduction to the special issue – Urban energy governance: Local actions, capacities and politics

Rutherford

Jaglin

2015

Energy Policy

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“…Diverging interests and personal antipathy, by contrast, can create solid boundaries even between actors from the same social world, jeopardizing their collaboration and leading to conflict (cf. [29,[82][83][84]). This relates to the role of power.…”

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Boundary Bridging Arrangements: A Boundary Work Approach to Local Energy Transitions

Köhrsen

2017

Sustainability

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Local energy transitions involve various types of actors (e.g., politicians, businesses, public administrators, and citizens) that differ in their objectives, values, problem-related perspectives, and professional jargons: these differences risk deterring the collaboration that is needed to pursue energy transitions as encompassing socio-technological transformations. Based on a boundary work-approach, this contribution studies the interplay of actors in these transitions. The approach suggests that boundary bridging arrangements (e.g., boundary objects, boundary settings, and boundary organizations) evolve in local energy transitions, facilitating communication across the boundaries between the various types of actors. In applying the boundary work approach to the energy transitions in two German cities, the article explores the potentials and limitations of this approach.

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“…While these policies primarily influence the relations between local government and developers, they can also affect energy utilities. For example, passive house standards for buildings can conflict with policies of mandatory connection to district heating systems (Späth & Rohracher, 2015). The variety of existing governance arrangements, each with different constellations of actors and technologies, leaves the possibility that smart grids might conflict not only with unsustainable socio-technical configurations, but also with existing governance arrangements that aim to reduce building energy use.…”

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Energy efficiency left behind? Policy assemblages in Sweden’s most climate-smart city

Parks

2018

European Planning Studies

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Smart city experiments have the potential to reshape urban climate change governance. Smart city initiatives have been supported by international technology companies and the European Union for many years and continue to be promoted by national and municipal governments. In relation to sustainability and climate change, such initiatives promise more efficient use of resources through the use of information and communications technology in energy infrastructure. Experiments with smart city technologies such as urban smart grids have shown the potential to restructure relationships between energy utilities, energy users and other actors by reconfiguring the dynamics of energy supply and demand. But do urban experiments lead to institutional change? The aim of the article is to provide a better understanding of how smart city experiments reshape the urban governance of building energy use. Hyllie, a new city district in Malmö, Sweden, was home to two smart city experiments that contributed to the institutionalization of urban smart grid technology. However, the analysis of Hyllie's policy assemblages shows that this institutional change could redefine sustainability at the expense of energy efficiency. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Conflicting strategies towards sustainable heating at an urban junction of heat infrastructure and building standards

Cited by 59 publications

References 14 publications

Introduction to the special issue – Urban energy governance: Local actions, capacities and politics

Introduction to the special issue – Urban energy governance: Local actions, capacities and politics

Boundary Bridging Arrangements: A Boundary Work Approach to Local Energy Transitions

Energy efficiency left behind? Policy assemblages in Sweden’s most climate-smart city

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