Conference sessions and presentations

Theorizing social energy innovations I

Social energy innovations through transdisciplinary research

• Co-Chairs: Sebastian Rogga, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Sara Reimann & Martina Hülz, Akademie für Raumforschung u. Landesplanung
• Developing regional energy strategies in transdisciplinary teams: What are the potentials and challenges for fostering social energy innovations?, Bärbel Keysselitz et al., RWTH Aachen University
• Reflections on the potential of transdisciplinary research in facilitating urban energy transitions – Insights from an ongoing research project, Kerstin Walz, Centre for Globalisation and Governance, Universität Hamburg
• Transdisciplinary Subjectification - Negotiating scientific identities, skills, and normativities in the energy transition, Mirko Suhari, Zeppelin University
• Post-truth or pre-political – the role of knowledge in the discourse about the German Energy Transition, Esther Meyer & Andrea Amri-Henkel, Leuphana University Lueneburg

Real-life experiments as governing tool for social energy innovations

• Chair: Wiebke Lass, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Individual energy transformation through technological and economic intervention?, Martina Nies et al., University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund
• Practice changes in demand response programmes: Does price matter?, Toke Haunstrup Christensen et al., Danish Building Research Institute, Aalborg University (presentation)
• Energy transition households – a social experiment, Jeannine Tischler et al., Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen
• Real life experiments as a governing tool for social innovations in the energy sector, Devon Wemyss et al., ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences (presentation)
• Climate Neutral Living in Berlin (KliB) – A real world lab on individual de-carbonization in an urban political context, Fritz Reusswig et al., Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Subsurface energy – challenges, constraints, acceptance

• Co-Chairs: Inga Möck, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics & Gerold Janssen, Leibniz Institute for Ecological Urban and Regional Development
• Public engagement with geothermal technologies: framing the debate around subsurface energy, Anna Pellizzone, CNR - Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources & Alessandro Sciullo, University of Torino (presentation)
• Public engagement strategy: a conceptual model for enhancing the development of geothermal energy, Alessandro Sciullo et al., University of Torino
• A GIS-based multi-criteria method to identifying spatial planning focus areas for the use of deep, hydro-geothermal energy potentials in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, Malte Schwanebeck et al., Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (presentation)
• Requirements for subsurface spatial planning in times of energy transition, Sebastian Bartel, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development
• Where in Germany the thermal energy transition may succeed: Looking for deep geothermal energy with the free web portal GeotIS, Thorsten Agemar et al., Leibniz-Institut für Angewandte Geophysik

Politicizing clean energy transitions I

• Chair: Timmo Krüger, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space
• Exploring the contribution of grassroots innovations to justice. Using the capability approach to normatively address community-led transition processes, Victoria Pellicer-Sifres et al., Universitat Politecnica de València
• Identifying Strategic Entry Points for Transformative Politics, Timmo Krüger, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space
• Community-based renewable energy prosumerism within a steady-state economy: reconfiguring energy consumption and production systems across national landscapes, Katy Wiese & Cristian Pons-Seres de Brauwer, Lund University
• Contradictions within movements for regional renewable energy transitions, Julian Bothe, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Enabling citizens to engage in energy-related decision-making: the role of education

• Co-Chairs: Ute Harms & Hanno Michel, Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University Kiel
• Who Benefits from Participatory Energy Transitions? International Experiences of Community Energy, Jörg Radtke, University of Siegen & Lars Holstenkamp, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg & Franziska Mey, University of New South Wales, Sydney
• Energy in the Written Media, David Fortus et al., The Weizmann Institute of Science (presentation)
• Overcoming the limits of thinking: The role of embodiment when judging about the energy transition, Kai Niebert et al., University of Zurich
• The energy concept and its relation to climate literacy – Results of a systematic literature review, Dirk Mittenzwei et al., Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at Kiel University

Digitized energy transitions and social change

• Co-Chairs: Weert Canzler & Leslie Quitzow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
• Prosumage of solar electricity: batteries, heating and mobility, Wolf-Peter Schill et al., German Institute for Economic Research & Michael Pahle, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Smart monitoring for active energy citizens or passive energy consumers – case-study evidence on user behavior and satisfaction, Steffen Bettin et al., Institute for Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Are all energy transition pathways paved with Digitalization and Technological Acceleration?, Maria Josefina Figueroa, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Complex Play: Gaming the Energy Crisis, Danielle Barrios-O’Neill et al., Falmouth University

Governing urban innovations in energy and climate governance

• Chair: Kristine Kern, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space
• Collective action and social innovation in the energy sector between theory and practice, Alessandro Sciullo et al., University of Torino
• Lessons from a mobility smart city living lab triggering new governance practices at the urban level, Francesca Cellina et al. , University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
• The energy leaders and laggards in UK local authorities: An institutional analysis of local energy governance and prospects for energy innovation in UK towns & cities, Mags Tingey et al., School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh (presentation)
• From energy consumption to integrated sustainable urban development: Comparative appraisal at neighborhood-scale in the 1960s and 70s public housing stock in Berlin, Santiago, Ulaanbaatar and Hanoi, Renato D’Alençon Castrillón et al., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (presentation)
  

Transforming existing power structures in the energy sector I

• Chair: Sebastian Rogga, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
• Intra-household bargaining, women’s autonomy and biogas technology preferences in Pakistan, Nazia Yasmin et al., Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy
• From uncertainties to chaotic energy futures? Spatial patterns of decentralized solar PV systems, social practices and energy governance in Kenya, Festus Boamah et al., University of Bayreuth
• Sharing the benefits of energy transition with social tenants: combining economic, technical, social and governance innovations, Rachel Guyet, Centre des Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po
• Fritz Haber ans Ammonia Synthesis: An Analysis of a Scientific Discovery with Lessons for the Energiewende, Benjamin Johnson, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Drivers and obstacles for social energy innovations

• Chair: Fritz Reusswig, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Smart small living? Saving energy in senior citizen’s households by reducing floor space - transdisciplinary approaches, Corinna Fischer et al., Institute for Applied Ecology Darmstadt (presentation)
• Resisting Transition - An empirical investigation into the social forces of business as usual, Dennis Eversberg, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• Catching the Rebound; a practice perspective on household energy use, Eoin Grealis et al., Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
• Populist movements and the rise of anti-democratic tendencies in protest against the energy transition, Eva Eichenauer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (presentation)

Politicizing clean energy transitions II

Enabling citizens to engage in energy-related decision-making: the role of education and participation

• Co-Chairs: Ute Harms & Hanno Michel, Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University Kiel
• How to achieve a mobility transition? Identifying determinants of sustainable mobility and exploring the role of education, Marlene Damerau et al., Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development
• “Turning Energy Around” – Promoting Energy Literacy with an Interactive Exhibition, Sarah Kellberg, Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Kiel (presentation)
• Students’ and energy efficiency: a cross-cultural study, Paula Paz, Europa-Universität Flensburg
• From individual to collective action: changing culture and values towards energy transition. Insights from social activism, Victoria Pellicer-Sifres, Universitat Politecnica de València

Transforming existing power structures in the energy sector II

• Chair: Wolf-Peter Schill, German Institute for Economic Research
• Power in the Making—Dismantling the Relationship between Local Renewable Energy Projects and Power, Angela Pohlmann, Institute of Sociology, University of Hamburg
• Renewable energy and political movements: The case of Community Choice Aggregation in California, Ida Dokk Smith, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
• Personal Carbon Accounts: targeting social change to tackle global warming, Martin Burgess, Aberystwyth University Wales (presentation)
• Financing consumer ownership in renewables through Consumer Stock Ownership Plans (CSOPs), Jens Lowitzsch, European University Viadrina

Theorizing social energy innovations II

• Chair: Ludger Gailing, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space
• Re-appraising sociotechnical continuity and change: Berlin’s energy infrastructure history as a conceptual challenge, Timothy Moss, Humboldt University of Berlin
• Characterizing innovative energy intermediaries through socio-energy assemblages, Melike Yalçın-Riollet et al., PACTE, Grenoble Alpes University
• Netdom switchings, mechanisms and social innovations, Gerhard Fuchs, University of Stuttgart
• Here comes the sun - The evolution of a Prosuming Project within a social housing estate, Nicolette Fox, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex

Enabling citizens to engage in energy-related decision-making: the role of participation and ownership

• Co-Chairs: Ute Harms & Hanno Michel, Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University Kiel
• Energy system modelling and participatory scenario development - Bridging the knowledge gap between stakeholders and experts?, Simon Hilpert et al. Europa Universität Flensburg
• Energy communities as social innovators driving the energy transition – a typology based on cluster analysis of European databases, Valeria Jana Schwanitz et al., Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
• Successful’ low-carbon energy transitions at the community level? An energy justice perspective, Henner Busch, Department of Human Geography, Lund University (presentation)
• Managing sustainability transitions through devolved city-regions: An interdisciplinary experiment integrating Transition Management and participatory System Dynamics Modelling, Lauren Stabler, Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University

Governing social energy innovations

• Chair: Wolf-Peter Schill, German Institute for Economic Research
• Making a market for low-carbon retrofit services in the Netherlands:on the role of private, public and civic market devices, Mandy DeWilde, Wageningen University
• Made to break – A longitudinal study about the development of the German energy transition and the inherent role of social innovations (2000 to 2016), Stephan Bohn, Freie Universität Berlin and WZB Berlin Social Science Center
• Innovation through participation in regional energy transitions? Experiences from the transdisciplinary project INOLA, Anne von Streit & Annika-Kathrin Musch, Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
• Phasing Out Coal through Funding and/or Participation? International Comparisons and Modeling Considerations, Jeremias Herberg & David Beer Löw, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam