• Accountability implications for intermediaries in upscaling: Energy community rollouts in Portugal 

      Neven-Scharnigg, Renée Margaritha; Sareen, Siddharth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-10)
      With the increasing diffusion of solar energy, its conditioning by intermediaries merits attention. Depending on the accountability relations between stakeholders, intermediaries can influence the speed of diffusion. We ...
    • Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure 

      Lippert, Ingmar; Sareen, Siddharth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      With Green Deals and a competitive techno-economic basis for low-carbon energy transitions, energy infrastructural change is intensifying. This is matched by rapid growth in scholarship on sociotechnical transitions and ...
    • Digitalisation and social inclusion in multi-scalar smart energy transitions 

      Sareen, Siddharth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)
      Activity generated around smart energy transitions risks undermining a basic spatial planning principle: create better places for inhabitants. The possibilities unleashed by digitalisation have enigmatic force. Stepping ...
    • Enabling a just energy transition through solidarity in research 

      Sareen, Siddharth; Girard, Bérénice; Lindkvist, Peter Mathias; Sveinsdóttir, Anna Guðbjört; Kristiansen, Silje; Laterza, Vito; Støen, Mariel Cristina; Langhelle, Oluf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-05)
      A just energy transition is as much about acknowledging and acting on the socio-material needs of marginalised classes and groups as about informing inclusive and deliberative policy-making towards more equitable energy ...
    • Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition 

      Rommetveit, Kjetil; Foss Ballo, Ingrid; Sareen, Siddharth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)
      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 ...
    • Scales of energy justice: Solar power and energy poverty alleviation 

      Nordholm, Amber Joy; Sareen, Siddharth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)
      The threats climate change poses require rapid and wide decarbonization efforts in the energy sector. Historically, large-scale energy operations, often instrumental for a scaled and effective approach to meet decarbonization ...
    • Social implications of energy infrastructure digitalisation and decarbonisation 

      Sareen, Siddharth; Smith, Adrian; Gantioler, Sonja; Balest, Jessica; Brisbois, Marie Claire; Tomasi, Silvia; Sovacool, Benjamin; Contreras, Gerardo A. Torres; Haarstad, Håvard; DellaValle, Nives (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Digitalisation provides opportunities to decarbonise energy and, simultaneously, address social exclusion and inequality—but it is unclear whether and how these opportunities are realised. Three case studies investigate ...