“…We see in this new challenges emerging for post-pandemic energy social research [ [250] , [197] ]. Ways of re-imagining surveillance power [ 251 ] and gender aspects [ [252] , [253] ] have begun to be explored. To explore social aspects of smart energy in more detail, energy social research may rely on established approaches and methods such as social actor discourse analysis [ 254 ], focus groups [ 255 ], role play [ 256 ], ethnography [ 257 ], or situational analysis [ 258 ].…”