Imagining energy futures: Sociotechnical imaginaries of the future Smart Grid in Norway

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 9, Issue , 2015, Pages 9-20

  Ballo, Ingrid Foss ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Deficit models; Imagined publics; Smart meters; Techno epistemic network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945494080     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2015.08.015     Document Type: Article

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