From private to public governance: The case for reconfiguring energy systems as a commons

Giotitsas, Chris; Nardelli, Pedro H. J.; Kostakis, Vasilis; Narayanan, Arun

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101737

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“…One such configuration, codified as "design global, manufacture local" (DGML), has been proposed, building on the distributed production of technologies within the commons framework (Giotitsas et al, 2020;Kostakis et al, 2016). It has been observed that commonsbased communities appropriate technology to create positive feedback loops for degrowth and localised manufacturing and maintenance (Kostakis et al, , 2016 as manifested in numerous fields, including agriculture, building construction, and energy systems (Giotitsas et al, 2022;Priavolou et al, 2021;Troullaki et al, 2022).…”

Section: Design Global -Manufacture Local: a Sustainable Production C...mentioning

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Tracing sustainable production from a degrowth and localisation perspective: A case of 3D printers

Priavolou

Troullaki

Tsiouris

et al. 2022

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Tracing sustainable production from a degrowth and localisation perspective: A case of 3D printers

Priavolou

Troullaki

Tsiouris

et al. 2022

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…While there are many highly detailed recent reviews on microgrids' operations and different architectures, there is still a gap in the global view. These tend to focus on either energy microgrid [23][24][25][26] or community microgrid [27][28][29], but rarely both, or only in brief.…”

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Understanding Microgrid Sustainability: A Systemic and Comprehensive Review

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There is a growing research interest in studying microgrids as a way to overcome the lack of access to energy. These microgrids could be the key to global energy access because of their many advantages related to flexibility, efficiency, and reliability. Despite all these qualities, microgrids remain challenging to implement in a sustainable and resilient way without a clear consensus on what causes these failures. To this end, this work proposes a new paradigm to make a multidisciplinary and comprehensive review of the operation of microgrids. By reconciling the different fields inherent to microgrids, this review enables the study of microgrids within a unified framework. Microgrids will be presented through energy, information, financial, and social fields to provide the necessary elements for their systemic understanding. Each field will be presented with its internal elements, architecture, and significant issues. By elaborating on this new vision of microgrids, this article hopes to open the way to a deeper understanding of their systemic operation and diagnose their long-term sustainability.

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“…Such approaches may signpost models for democratic participation in new parts of digital energy infrastructures by engaging more materially and geographically complex publics than those implicated in locally focussed forms of Energy Democracy. Commons-based approaches, likewise, could help address data governance challenges emerging from new energy data monopolies (Judson et al, 2020), or offer collective strategies for coordinating between localised energy grids (Giotitsas et al, 2020). However, this is not to advocate any simple replacement or 'update' of the dominant Energy Democracy model.…”

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Interventions on Democratizing Infrastructure

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Rella

Aiken

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Political Geography

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This intervention seeks to revivify democratic thinking in political geography, through foregrounding and pluralising its material and temporal dimensions. At the same time, it speaks to a renewed centrality and relevance of infrastructure and infrastructural projects in political discourse. The contributions included here demonstrate how an infrastructural lens can offer new insights into democratic spaces, practices, and temporalities, offering more expansive versions of what it means to act politically. Specifically, these contributions intervene in existing geographical debates by bringing to the fore four underexplored dimensions of democratic governance: (im) materiality, connectivity, performativity, and temporality. In doing so, it develops a research agenda that broadens and regenerates thinking at the intersection of socio-spatial theory and democratic action and governance.

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From private to public governance: The case for reconfiguring energy systems as a commons

Abstract: Highlights The development of energy solutions is stymied by capitalist political and economic imperatives. A novel socio-economic arrangement can germinate alternative technological trajectories. A commons-oriented technical approach for energy production is proposed.

Cited by 17 publications

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Tracing sustainable production from a degrowth and localisation perspective: A case of 3D printers

Tracing sustainable production from a degrowth and localisation perspective: A case of 3D printers

Understanding Microgrid Sustainability: A Systemic and Comprehensive Review

Interventions on Democratizing Infrastructure

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