Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition
Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition
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DOI：
10.1177/01622439211052867
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发表时间：
2021-10-27
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3.1
通讯作者：
Sareen, Siddharth
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作者：
Rommetveit, Kjetil;Ballo, Ingrid Foss;Sareen, Siddharth
最近将数字技术和可再生能源纳入电网的努力将用户置于能源转型合法化的中心舞台。与此同时，与科学和技术研究相关的能源社会研究也强调了用户和能源实践。本文以挪威卑尔根的智能电力用户对能源实践进行的为期 18 个月的生活实验室探索为基础。我们提出两个相互关联的论点。首先，挪威和其他地方的能源生产和分配正在转向任务的更大自动化，可能绕过“活跃用户”概念。能源部门的实践正在从简单地提取自然资源（提取1.0）发展到提取用户行为数据（提取2.0），因此隐私成为稳定能源系统的关键组成部分。其次，我们反思由此实现的用户（或“能源公民”）的角色和可能性的位移，特别是其规范（政治和监管）方面。我们建议能源实践的概念化应得到实用主义社会学参与机制概念的支持。与此相关的是，我们认为市场、公民、生态和工业体制正在通过数字创新和我们所说的智能电力技术认知网络积极融合。
Recent efforts to involve digital technologies and renewables in the electricity grid have placed users at center stage in the legitimation of energy transitions. This move has been paralleled by an emphasis on users and energy practices in social studies of energy related to science and technology studies. This article builds on an eighteen-month Living Lab exploration of energy practices with smart electricity users in Bergen, Norway. We make two interrelated arguments. First, energy production and distribution in Norway and elsewhere is shifting toward greater automation of tasks, possibly bypassing the "active user" concept. Energy sector practices are evolving from simply extracting natural resources (Extraction 1.0) toward extraction of users' behavioral data (Extraction 2.0), and privacy thus emerges as a key component in the stabilization of energy systems. Second, we reflect on displacements of the roles and possibilities of users (or "energy citizens") thereby enabled, especially their normative (political and regulatory) aspects. We propose that conceptualization of energy practices be supported by the concept of regimes of engagement from pragmatist sociology. Relatedly, we argue that market, civic, ecological, and industrial regimes are being actively merged through digital innovation and what we call the techno-epistemic network of smart electricity.