TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ryghaug, Marianne
AU  - Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe
AB  - This open access book examines the role of pilot and demonstration projects as crucial devices for conducting innovation in the context of the energy transition. Bridging literature from sustainability transitions and Science and Technology Studies (STS), it argues that such projects play a crucial role, not only in shaping future energy and mobility systems, but in transforming societies more broadly. Pilot projects constitute socio-technical configurations where imagined future realities are materialized. With this as a backdrop, the book explores pilot projects as political entities, focusing on questions of how they gain their legitimacy, which resources are mobilized in their production, and how they can serve as sites of public participation and the production of energy citizenship. The book argues that such projects too often have a narrow technology focus, and that this is a missed opportunity.  The book concludes by critically discussing the potential roles of research and innovation policy in transforming how such projects are configured and conducted.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-61184-2
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20210315_9783030611842_16
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47289
KW  - Environmental Policy
KW  - Sociology, general
KW  - Energy Policy, Economics and Management
KW  - Environmental Geography
KW  - Human Geography
KW  - Environmental Social Sciences
KW  - Science and Technology Studies
KW  - Environmental Studies
KW  - energy citizenship
KW  - energy transitions
KW  - sustainability transitions
KW  - low carbon energy transitions
KW  - energy policy
KW  - social scientific studies of energy transitions
KW  - open access
KW  - Central / national / federal government policies
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Energy technology & engineering
KW  - Energy industries & utilities
KW  - Development & environmental geography
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47289/1/9783030611842.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/64042
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2021
SN  - 9783030611842
TI  - Pilot Society and the Energy Transition : The co-shaping of innovation, participation and politics
ER  - 
