Incumbent organisations shaping emerging technological fields: cases of solar photovoltaic and electric vehicle charging

Apajalahti, Eeva-Lotta; Temmes, Armi; Lempiälä, Tea

doi:10.1080/09537325.2017.1285397

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“…The introduction of photovoltaic panels and a wind generator into a fast charging station enabled. According to Apajalahti et al (2017) and Pan et al (2010) [33,34] studies, the use of a wide range of energy technologies will allow organizations of various profiles to be involved in the process of creating a charging infrastructure.…”

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Assessment of the Use of Renewable Energy Sources for the Charging Infrastructure of Electric Vehicles

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Anisimov

2020

Emerg Sci J

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Application of renewable energy sources is a relevant area of energy supply for urban infrastructure. In 2019, the share of energy produced by such sources reached 11% (for solar energy) and 22% (for wind energy) of the total energy produced during the year. However, these systems require an improvement in their efficiency that can be achieved by introducing electric vehicles. They can accumulate, store and transfer surplus energy to the city’s power grid. A solution to this problem is a smart charging infrastructure. The existing studies in the field of charging infrastructure organization for electric vehicles consider only models locating charging stations in the city or the calculation of their required number. These calculations are based on socio-economic factors and images of a potential owner of an electric vehicle. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop a methodology for determining the location of charging stations and their required number. The calculation will include the operating features of the existing charging infrastructure, which has not been done before. Thus, the purpose of this article is to research the operation of the existing charging infrastructure. This will provide an opportunity to develop approaches to the energy supply of charging infrastructure and city’s power grid from renewable energy sources. The article presents an analysis of data on the number of charging sessions during the year, month and day. This data enable us to construct curves of the charging session number and suggest ways to conduct the next stages of this study. Doi: 10.28991/esj-2020-01251 Full Text: PDF

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Assessment of the Use of Renewable Energy Sources for the Charging Infrastructure of Electric Vehicles

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Anisimov

2020

Emerg Sci J

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“…Yet, at the same time, incumbent energy system actors are fighting back, for example, by large utilities buying up independent wind power developers to eliminate competition in the UK (Negro et al, 2012) or engaging in shaping emerging technological fields by creating more centralised models (e.g. offering centrally located solar panels to the ownership of utility customers) to produce and sell renewable electricity in Finland (Apajalahti et al, 2017). This means that many incumbent utilities frame themselves as proponents of renewable energy, while simultaneously safeguarding the centralised utility model.…”

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Multiple dimensions of disruption, energy transitions and industrial policy

Johnstone

Kivimaa

2018

Energy Research & Social Science

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In this perspective article, we critically explore 'disruption' in relation to sustainability transitions in the energy sector. Recognising significant ambiguity associated with the term, we seek to answer the question: What use has 'disruption' for understanding and promoting change towards low carbon energy futures. First, we outline that different understandings and dimensions of 'system disruption' exist with different linkages to institutional and policy change. This variety points out a need to research in more detail the particular effects of differing low-carbon innovations in terms of their disruptive consequences for whole socio-technical systems. Thus, disruption can be utilised as a useful conceptual tool for interrogating in more detail the ways in which energy systems are changing in particular contexts. Second, we reflect on the relationship between 'green industrial policy' and disruption. In some contexts 'energy disruption' has been facilitated by green industrial policy, and it would seem that the profound changes said to be on the horizon in terms of disruption are also a motivator of green industrial policy. New industrial policy can be an important way in which the negative consequences of disruptive change, such as job losses, can be managed and facilitated. 1. The 'Disruption' of everything: just another buzzword? Discussions of 'disruption' have gained increasing traction in policy (European Commission, 2014; Innovate UK, 2017) and academia (e.g Nagy et al., 2015; Sioshani, 2017) alike. The term 'disruptive technology' was initially coined in 1995 (Bower and Christensen, 1995; Christensen and Rosenbloom, 1995) and mainly used in the subsequent years to discuss the renewal of firms in the context of business and organisational studies. However, recently the term has become more prolific than ever, spurred on by apparent momentous changes in a range of sectors. These often interconnected developments include automation in transport, 3D printing, digitalisation, the 'gig economy' and 'smart' energy. Definitions have been used further afield to discuss changes in education and health care (Horn and Staker, 2015; Hwang and Christensen, 2008). In an important online article for the New Yorker, Lepore (2014) cynically observed that today "everyone is either disrupting or being disrupted" and argued that "every era has a theory of rising and falling, of growth and decay…our era has disruption". The ubiquity of the term is seen by many as being problematic, with suggestions that the theory of disruption may be "dead wrong" (Kitroeff, 2015) due to its vagueness and lack of definitional clarity, and that it is time to "retire" disruption, "Silicon valley's emptiest buzzword" (Alexander, 2016). King and Baatartogtokh, (2015) inquire 'how useful is a theory of disruption'?

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“…Those actors mobilize multiple dimensions of power (see Section 4) to reinforce regimes that favor them, thus protecting their continued advantage. Indeed, powerful incumbents demonstrate a nuanced Imaginaries: collectively held visions of good or attainable futures that serve to envision the possible and motivate action toward new development pathways ability not only to create barriers to expansion of novelty that threatens their interests but also to selectively influence the emergence of novelty in ways that maintain the stability of dominant regimes (223,224). An ability to destabilize existing regimes and overcome incumbency is therefore a fundamental component of the capacity for transformation.…”

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Sustainability Science: Toward a Synthesis

Clark

Harley

2020

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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This review synthesizes diverse approaches that researchers have brought to bear on the challenge of sustainable development. We construct an integrated framework highlighting the union set of elements and relationships that those approaches have shown to be useful in explaining nature–society interactions in multiple contexts. Compelling evidence has accumulated that those interactions should be viewed as a globally interconnected, complex adaptive system in which heterogeneity, nonlinearity, and innovation play formative roles. The long-term evolution of that system cannot be predicted but can be understood and partially guided through dynamic interventions. Research has identified six capacities necessary to support such interventions in guiding development pathways toward sustainability. These are capacities to ( a) measure sustainable development, ( b) promote equity, ( c) adapt to shocks and surprises, ( d ) transform the system into more sustainable development pathways, ( e) link knowledge with action, and ( f ) devise governance arrangements that allow people to work together in exercising the other capacities. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 45 is October 19, 2020. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Incumbent organisations shaping emerging technological fields: cases of solar photovoltaic and electric vehicle charging

Cited by 39 publications

References 31 publications

Assessment of the Use of Renewable Energy Sources for the Charging Infrastructure of Electric Vehicles

Assessment of the Use of Renewable Energy Sources for the Charging Infrastructure of Electric Vehicles

Multiple dimensions of disruption, energy transitions and industrial policy

Sustainability Science: Toward a Synthesis

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