Energy System Transition in the Making: Case study of Greater Copenhagen District Heating Network

Abstract

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Govering European Heat Transitions: the role of knowledge and collective agency in district heating planning

“…No situation is the same, but all they depend on the specific local conditions shaped by infrastructure, technologies, expertise, knowledge, citizens, habits, regulations, financing and many more factors. These are open-ended, continuous processes in which actors and stakeholders attempt to navigate uncertain situations towards unknown futures, while ensuring that their existing infrastructure is useful and relevant (Caussarieu 2021). The reasons for changing current heat supply are as diverse as there are actors conducting heat planning.…”

“…The authors behind many of these approaches talk about transitions or technologies using terms such as systems, networks or regimes Geels and Schot 2007). Such approaches have received criticism for not accounting for the messiness of actor-realities as well as for promoting a structuralist ontology that overly relies on pre-existing categories (Iuel-Stissing et al 2020;Caussarieu 2021). Therefore, in the following, I present the notion of a sociotechnical assemblage (Çalişkan and Callon 2010).…”