From responsibilization to responsiveness through metrics: Smart meter deployment in Australia

Chandrashekeran, Sangeetha

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.07.014

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“…Despite the optimism surrounding prosumer scenarios, the disjuncture between the vision of energy policymakers and reality in the Australian marketplace has been noted (Chandrashekeran, 2020). Policy makers assert that it is not clear how households will shape, and be shaped by, the distributed energy transition (Finker et al, 2017;CSIRO, 2013).…”

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It starts at home: consumer acceptance of battery storage and response to prosumer models

McCarthy

Liu

2023

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The deployment of battery storage is crucial to decarbonizing the energy sector and mitigating climate change. The study examines the antecedents of battery storage acceptance and perceptions of prosumer and leasing models. An online survey was conducted with 609 homeowners in Australia, a mature renewable energy market. A two-step econometric model was used to analyze the data. The result shows that an environmental self-identity, subjective norms, the independence motive, technical interest, load-shifting interest, and education levels are positively related to acceptance of battery storage, while worries about battery technology, costs and age are negatively associated with acceptance of battery storage. The results show a general willingness to share and trade electricity. Over a quarter of respondents are interested in acting as prosumers and leasing batteries in return for a credit on the electricity bill. The main contribution to the literature is the insights generated into consumer acceptance of battery storage. Recommendations for practitioners and policymakers are made.

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Section: Theoretical Foundationmentioning

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It starts at home: consumer acceptance of battery storage and response to prosumer models

McCarthy

Liu

2023

Preprint

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“…Media reports have been relied on mainly where they provide clear statements of intent by political actors. This paper is embedded in a broader set of Australia-focused research projects that include historical analyses of the marketization of the electricity sector (Chandrashekeran 2016); accountability crises in electricity technology deployment (Chandrashekeran 2020); and analyses of state-market relations in electricity governance (Chandrashekeran 2022).…”

Section: Energopolitics and State Powermentioning

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Energopower, statecraft and political legitimacy

Chandrashekeran

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This paper draws on the notion of energopower ( Boyer 2014 ) to show the foundational role of electricity in the (re)production of political power in Australia. I show how conflicts surrounding electricity have reconstituted state-market-society relations and rescaled governance. I study a series of notable national-scale interventions and argue that, through the contingent and chaotic play of events in the political sphere, market-oriented governance regimes for electricity have been weakened, and the issue of electricity decarbonisation has become ‘weaponised’ for electoral benefit. I explain how national political leadership in Australia has stepped in from a constitutionally-weak position to govern electricity under pressure for environmentally-driven adaptation. I show four statecraft techniques that reconstitute electricity in new ways: discursively linking electricity governance to socio-environmental futures; national interest framings that are weaponized for electoral gain; tactical governance through parliamentary compromise and appeasement; and jettisoning market logics in favour of state intervention. This study recognises the limits of centralized state-making under a Federalist system but shows the potential for statecraft to reshape scalar-territorial relations and strengthen the role of the central state vis-à-vis the market. Vital resources like electricity are not just struggled over but, under the right conditions, can come to shape political power. There is neither infinite potential for state rescaling through the performance of legitimacy, nor do rigid scalar hierarchies simply block reconfigurations of state power. To understand the potential for resource struggles to re-scale state power attention must be paid to the techniques of statecraft that support and undermine legitimacy.

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“…It differs from both in that it is a whole of economy undertaking, that its ambition is cross-sectoral and intended to drive national economic growth (see Section 4), and unlike the UK government's Midata initiative, it is not voluntary but state-led and enforced. Both research projects are also located within a longitudinal program of research into the structural reforms of Australia's electricity sector (Chandrashekeran 2016(Chandrashekeran , 2020. The paper draws on the interviews, stakeholder workshops, industry presentations and document analysis for both projects, spanning 2016-2019, supplemented by desktop analysis of documents constituting debates and reforms associated with the Data Right's development and implementation.…”

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Making markets from the data of everyday life

Chandrashekeran

Keele

2022

Environ Plan A

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This paper shows how the capture and circulation of data about social lives are enabled through digitalisation and market logics and practices. Drawing on Australia's new Consumer Data Right, a state-led initiative that creates access rights to personal data, we distinguish between market promises and the translation of market models in actually existing markets and regulatory frameworks. ‘Life's work’ is brought to market through promises to fix the problems of essential service markets by harnessing data. We argue that the Consumer Data Right is underpinned by a more ambitious vision to create future markets that transcend individual sectors through aggregation across the economy. These visions are silent on how the data, which cannot be owned and therefore cannot be commoditised, is capitalised. We show the Consumer Data Right's discursive, administrative, regulatory and technical aspects through which the previously hard-to-penetrate spaces of the home and everyday life become enrolled in circuits of value, both present and future. This involves technical standard setting by state agencies for accreditation, consent and approval processes; discourses of trust and calculative devices to promote consumer control; and weak de-identification and deletion requirements that grant data an afterlife beyond the original agreed use. This paper calls for greater attention to the enabling role of the state in digital markets as a counterbalance to the focus on the state's regulatory and constraining role. We argue for a more staged approach to market-making analysis to show how the state lays the market foundations that can then be deepened through practices of intermediation and capitalisation by private firms.

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From responsibilization to responsiveness through metrics: Smart meter deployment in Australia

Cited by 16 publications

References 35 publications

It starts at home: consumer acceptance of battery storage and response to prosumer models

It starts at home: consumer acceptance of battery storage and response to prosumer models

Energopower, statecraft and political legitimacy

Making markets from the data of everyday life

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