Energy ideals, visions, narratives, and rhetoric: Examining sociotechnical imaginaries theory and methodology in energy research

SolarView: Georgia Solar Adoption in Context

“…Respecting the complex interactions that exist within the local-national gap requires an eye towards understanding the multi-modal flows of information that are attuned to local policy-making conditions. The Social Energy Atlas, a program funded by the United States Department of Energy Solar Energy Technology Office, leverages large-scale qualitative and quantitative data analysis for examining why residents of the State of Georgia do or do not adopt rooftop photovoltaic solar [27]. The primary objective of this work is to develop more effective policy and programming to bridge the local-national gap in Georgia, through large-scale analysis of the stories people array when making such decisions about energy.…”

Система Факторов Научно-Технологического Развития Региона

“…Ряд зарубежных исследований содержит целый спектр разработок по методологии для быстрого и эффективного анализа данных, их правильной интерпретации, рас-пространения и интеграции в систему принимаемых управленческих решений [8,9] ( Kormishkina, Kormishkin, Koloskov, 2017;.…”

Shared Yet Contested: Energy Democracy Counter-Narratives

“…Informed by Miller et al (2015) and Wittmayer et al (2015), these elements of transition narratives include (1) collective-action frames that define problems, solutions, and motivations for sociotechnical change (Eaton et al, 2014, p. 232-233), (2) discourses that describe values and norms of members of the communities of interest (Wesley, 2014, p. 137), (3) sociotechnical imaginaries that describe and prescribe collective visions of desirable futures to be attained in a given context (Eaton et al, 2014, p. 230;Jasanoff, 2015, p. 4;Jasanoff and Kim, 2009, p. 123), and (4) stories that connect past, present and future and identify specific human agents and adversaries of change (Moezzi et al, 2017, p. 2;Wesley, 2014, p. 138). This definition avoids presuming any specific social group as agent or adversary (Tidwell and Tidwell, 2018). Similarly, the "institutionalist dimension of energy democracy, " involving the issue of who should own and control energy infrastructure (Becker and Naumann, 2017, p. 4-5), is addressed within transition narratives in terms of new or existing organizational forms proposed as solutions for democratization.…”

“…An energy democracy initiative (EDI) is defined as an organization or program that actively makes use of the term "energy democracy" to guide actions (Hess, 2018) or works to advance energy democracy goals and outcomes or policy instruments to achieve a renewable energy transition (Burke and Stephens, 2017). For this research, a transition narrative is defined by a set of elements used for ongoing public communications of an initiative, whether originating in an official source or used less formally by non-experts (Tidwell and Tidwell, 2018). Informed by Miller et al (2015) and Wittmayer et al (2015), these elements of transition narratives include (1) collective-action frames that define problems, solutions, and motivations for sociotechnical change (Eaton et al, 2014, p. 232-233), (2) discourses that describe values and norms of members of the communities of interest (Wesley, 2014, p. 137), (3) sociotechnical imaginaries that describe and prescribe collective visions of desirable futures to be attained in a given context (Eaton et al, 2014, p. 230;Jasanoff, 2015, p. 4;Jasanoff and Kim, 2009, p. 123), and (4) stories that connect past, present and future and identify specific human agents and adversaries of change (Moezzi et al, 2017, p. 2;Wesley, 2014, p. 138).…”