Social License for Digital Energy
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 15861
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Along with decarbonisation, the energy transition also involves the digitisation of the energy sector. The climate crisis has moved energy systems into a greater public focus, while digitisation has enhanced the visibility of energy usage. This has led to greater awareness and engagement of end-users as well as opportunities for new interactive roles for them.
The widespread and rapid adoption of innovative hardware as well as digital technologies have made energy transactions highly visible and, therefore, comprehensible to a wider range of users than ever before. Distributed generation, community energy systems, and aggregation have made it possible for traditionally passive consumers to play a more participatory role in the production of energy as well as its consumption. These shifts have created novel challenges for traditional stakeholders in the energy sector, requiring new expertise and responsibilities. They have also brought opportunities for various market players. In this Special Issue, we wish to cover several themes that lie at the intersection of energy and society, in order to conceptualise a social license which is enabled and shaped by the digitisation of the energy sector.
Potential topics to be covered:
- Social/consumer acceptance of demand response/automation;
- User trust, participation, and engagement;
- Human–computer interaction and interfaces;
- Consumer/prosumer behaviour in energy systems;
- Actor analyses and perspectives;
- Household energy practices;
- Institutional, regulatory, and governance aspects of digital energy;
- Adoption of smart energy hardware/services;
- Innovative business models;
- Infrastructure for socio-technical systems.
Prof. Dr. Zofia Lukszo
Dr. Rishabh Ghotge
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- user acceptance
- consumer acceptance
- demand response
- digital energy
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