• An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 priority research questions 

      Foulds, Chris; Royston, Sarah; Berker, Thomas; Nakopoulou, Efi; Bharucha, Zareen Pervez; Robison, Rosie; Abram, Simone; Ančić, Branko; Arapostathis, Stathis; Badescu, Gabriel; Bull, Richard; Cohen, Jed; Dunlop, Tessa; Dunphy, Niall; Dupont, Claire; Fischer, Corinna; Gram-Hanssen, Kirsten; Grandclément, Catherine; Heiskanen, Eva; Labanca, Nicola; Jeliazkova, Maria; Jörgens, Helge; Keller, Margit; Kern, Florian; Lombardi, Patrizia; Mourik, Ruth; Ornetzeder, Michael; Pearson, Peter J. G.; Rohracher, Harald; Sahakian, Marlyne; Sari, Ramazan; Standal, Karina; Živčič, Lidija (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society’s relation to energy (efficiency) even ...
    • Flexibility of real-time energy distribution: the changing practices of energy control rooms 

      Abram, Simone; Silvast, Antti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper examines the linked concepts of flexibility and control, focusing on how these are enacted in the operation of control rooms in Distribution Network Organisations. We discuss the limits to flexibility, and the ...
    • Habits Over Routines: Remarks on Control Room Practices and Control Room Studies 

      Silvast, Antti; Virtanen, Mikko J.; Abram, Simone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The evolution of computer tools has had profound impacts on many aspects of control rooms and control room studies. In this paper, we discuss some key assumptions underpinning these studies based on a new case of the ...
    • What do energy modellers know? An ethnography of epistemic values and knowledge models 

      Silvast, Antti; Laes, Erik; Abram, Simone; Bombaerts, Gunter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This article considers academic energy modelling as a scientific practice. While models and modelling have been of considerable interest in energy social science research, few studies have brought together approaches from ...