Research Handbook on Energy and Society

Edited by Janette Webb, Professor of Sociology of Organisations, Faye Wade, Chancellor’s Fellow, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh and Margaret Tingey, Senior Consultant, Ramboll, UK

• Contents:A few words on the creation of the cover image xviii1 Introduction to Research Handbook on Energy and Society: why studyenergy and society? 1Janette Webb, Faye Wade and Margaret TingeyPART I ENERGY SERVICES AND THE MAKING OF MARKETS2 Socio-technical transitions from coal and gas: an unfinished story 14Peter J.G. Pearson3 This land is our land: understanding energy nationalism 31David McCrone4 The making of energy consumers: from mutual provisioning to massmarkets and beyond 45Hiroki Shin and Heather Chappells5 Services revisited: what is energy for? 57Janine Morley6 Heating system transformation in Europe: accelerating sources of pathdependence to escape carbon lock-in 69Richard Hanna and Robert Gross7 The redesign of electricity markets under EU influence: the capacitymechanism in Britain and France 83Thomas Reverdy, Frédéric Marty and Ronan Bolton8 Pivoting toward Energy Transition 2.0: learning from electricity 97Gretchen BakkePART II SOCIAL DIMENSIONS IN ENERGY AND SOCIETY9 Why rationale matters in energy and climate policy 112Niall Kerr10 Access to energy: the contribution of the social sciences to deliveringenergy equity and justice 126Julia Tomei and Long Seng To11 Gender and solar energy in India’s low-carbon energy transition 141Karina Standal and Mariëlle Feenstra12 Contextualizing Nussbaumer via Nussbaum: unveilinga multi-disciplinary, human capabilities-centred approach to energypoverty from Mexico 154Karla Ricalde, Karla G. Cedano, Harriet Thomson and Tiare Robles13 Closing the gender gaps in energy sector recruitment, retention andadvancement 168Bipasha Baruah and Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic14 Social divisions in energy justice in the transport sector: personal carownership and use 184Karen Lucas, Noel Cass and Muhammed AdeelPART III ENERGY GOVERNANCE, POLICIES AND POLITICS15 Will China deliver urban ‘ecological civilisation’? 201David Tyfield16 Energy transitions and multi-level governance: how has devolution inthe United Kingdom affected renewable energy development? 215Richard Cowell17 Local heat and energy efficiency policy: ambiguity and ambivalence inEngland and Scotland 229Faye Wade, Janette Webb and Margaret Tingey18 Energy policy for buildings fit for the future 245Tina Fawcett and Marina Topouzi19 How non-energy policies shape demand for energy 259Sarah Royston and Jan Selby20 Debating energy futures on Lewis: energy transition, the politics of landuse and law, and the question of the commons 272Annabel PinkerPART IV CLIMATE CONSEQUENCES AND ENERGY FUTURES21 Knowledge infrastructures for sustainable energy transitions: marinerenewable energy in Scotland 287Shana Lee Hirsch22 ‘A little self-sufficient town close to the beach’: local energy systemtransformation through the lens of place and public things 299Nick Pidgeon, Christopher Groves, Catherine Cherry, Gareth Thomas, FionaShirani and Karen Henwood23 Disrupting markets with peer-to-peer energy trading 317Alexandra Schneiders, Anna Gorbatcheva, Michael J. Fell and David Shipworth24 Making energy futures at the edge of the grid: smart energy innovationin rural communities 328Heather Lovell25 Energy futures: understanding integrated energy systems modelling 340Antti Silvast26 How stories of the future impact energy and climate policy in the present 354Noam Bergman and Kathryn B. Janda27 Conclusions and new directions for energy and society research 367Janette Webb and Faye WadeIndex 375

‘At last, a serious review of the interactions between society and energy. The Handbook considers the impacts of decarbonisation options from many angles, but all through the lens of society and social science, and not just from the techno-economic perspectives which usually dominate such analysis. The authors provide valuable insights, not only into the potential changes to energy production and consumption but also to the governance needed to achieve them, as society is weaned off its dependence on fossil fuels.’