Generating community, generating justice? The production and circulation of value in community energy initiatives
In this paper, we explore the potentialities and interconnections between existing and hypothetical community energy systems and the concept of generative justice. New York State’s more recent official energy plan, for instance, includes provisions for community-scale microgrids, and several Europea...
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Grupo de Investigación Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales. Cibersomosaguas
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/52840 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=es/es-028&d=article52840oai |
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Community energy; Generative Justice; reconstructivism; thick community Ciencia Tecnología y Sociedad; Política Energética; Estudios de la Communidad Energía comunitaria; Justicia Generativa; reconstructivismo; comunidad sustantiva Energia comunitária; justiça generative; reconstrutivismo; comunidade substantiva |
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Community energy; Generative Justice; reconstructivism; thick community Ciencia Tecnología y Sociedad; Política Energética; Estudios de la Communidad Energía comunitaria; Justicia Generativa; reconstructivismo; comunidad sustantiva Energia comunitária; justiça generative; reconstrutivismo; comunidade substantiva Dotson, Taylor Chase Wilcox, James E Generating community, generating justice? The production and circulation of value in community energy initiatives |
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Community energy; Generative Justice; reconstructivism; thick community Ciencia Tecnología y Sociedad; Política Energética; Estudios de la Communidad Energía comunitaria; Justicia Generativa; reconstructivismo; comunidad sustantiva Energia comunitária; justiça generative; reconstrutivismo; comunidade substantiva |
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In this paper, we explore the potentialities and interconnections between existing and hypothetical community energy systems and the concept of generative justice. New York State’s more recent official energy plan, for instance, includes provisions for community-scale microgrids, and several European nations offer significant financial support to citizens interested in building micro and intermediate-scale renewable energy systems. Such efforts and technologies appear to promise some degree of generative justice, returning much of the value generated by distributed renewable energy back to the community producing it. However, most currently conceived and implemented community energy systems recirculate value in very narrow and limited ways. Building upon an analysis of New York energy policy and on-the-ground cases, we explore community energy’s potential. What kinds of value are being generated by community energy systems and for whom? How could such efforts be more generative of justice across a broad range of values, not just electrons and dollars? Through the attempt to broaden thinking not only about community energy systems but also the concept of generative justice, we connect technological and organizational configurations of community energy systems and the forms of value they have the potential to generate: including, the production of grassroots energy and organizational expertise, the capacity for local and personal autonomy in energy planning and decision-making, and the enhancement of an affective sense and embodied experience of community. Finally, we examine some of the barriers to realizing more generatively just community energy systems. |
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Dotson, Taylor Chase Wilcox, James E |
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Generating community, generating justice? The production and circulation of value in community energy initiatives |
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Generating community, generating justice? The production and circulation of value in community energy initiatives |
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Generating community, generating justice? The production and circulation of value in community energy initiatives |
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Generating community, generating justice? The production and circulation of value in community energy initiatives |
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Generating community, generating justice? The production and circulation of value in community energy initiatives |
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generating community, generating justice? the production and circulation of value in community energy initiatives |
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Grupo de Investigación Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales. Cibersomosaguas |
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2016 |
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https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/52840 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=es/es-028&d=article52840oai |
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