Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "Sareen, Siddharth"
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Legitimating power: Solar energy rollout, sustainability metrics and transition politics
Sareen, Siddharth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Increasing recognition of the irrefutable urgency to address the global climate challenge is driving mitigation efforts to decarbonise. Countries are setting targets, technological innovation is making renewable energy ... -
A matter of time: Explicating temporality in science and technology studies and Bergen's car-free zone development
Sareen, Siddharth; Remme, Devyn; Wågsæther, Katinka; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In their article on ‘sociotechnical matters’, Hess and Sovacool (2020) draw on extant STS scholarship to unpack ‘the black box’ of sociotechnical contributions to social science studies of energy. Notably absent in their ... -
Multiscalar Practices of Fossil Fuel Displacement
Sareen, Siddharth; Grandin, Jakob Olof; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)As renewable energy sources increasingly outcompete fossil fuels on cost and efficiency, novel questions arise around how, when, and where renewables can displace fossil energy. We need to understand fossil fuel displacement ... -
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)
Geels, Frank W.; Sareen, Siddharth; Hook, Andrew; Sovacool, Benjamin K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper addresses the implementation of technology-forcing policies in open-ended diffusion processes that involve companies and regulators as well as consumers and civil society actors. Mobilising insights from the ... -
New municipalism and the governance of urban transitions to sustainability
Sareen, Siddharth; Wågsæther, Katinka Lund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Cities play increasingly recognised roles in global climate change responses: as change laboratories, spaces of opportunity, and as administrative and economic hubs that concentrate human and financial resources and needs. ... -
The Pandemic as a Rupture that Follows Rules: Comparing Governance Responses in India, USA, Sweden and Norway
Sareen, Siddharth; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Oskarsson, Patrik; Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How a country responds to a rupture such as the COVID-19 pandemic can be revelatory of its governance. Governance entails not only the exercise but also the constitution of authority. The pandemic response thus presents a ... -
Scalar Containment of Energy Justice and Its Democratic Discontents: Solar Power and Energy Poverty Alleviation
Nordholm, Amber Joy; Sareen, Siddharth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)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 ... -
Smart gridlock? Challenging hegemonic framings of mitigation solutions and scalability
Sareen, Siddharth; Rommetveit, Kjetil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-05)Urban energy transitions are key components of urgently requisite climate change mitigation. Promissory discourse accords smart grids pride of place within them. We employ a living lab to study smart grids as a solution ... -
Social and technical differentiation in smart meter rollout: embedded scalar biases in automating Norwegian and Portuguese energy infrastructure
Sareen, Siddharth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Within the energy geographies debate on the uneven scalar effects of energy transitions, this article addresses the under-examined, increasing intersection of automation and energy transitions. Using a comparative case of ... -
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 (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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 ... -
Sustainable development goal interactions for a just transition: multi-scalar solar energy rollout in Portugal
Sareen, Siddharth; Nordholm, Amber Joy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Solar energy rollout has environmental and socio-economic impacts vital for just low-carbon energy transitions. The modular characteristics of solar photovoltaics enable multi-scalar deployment. How do environmental and ... -
Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses
Fell, Michael; Pagel, Laura; Chen, Chien-fei; Goldberg, Matthew; Herberz, Mario; Huebner, Gesche; Sareen, Siddharth; Hahnel, Ulf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Measures to control the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are having unprecedented impacts on people’s lives around the world. In this paper, we argue that those conducting social research in the energy domain ... -
What sticks? Ephemerality, permanence and local transition pathways
Grandin, Jakob; Sareen, Siddharth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Climate change is increasingly governed through local configurations that are characterised by voluntary action, weak institutions and uncoordinated efforts. The impermanent and iterative nature of such initiatives makes ... -
Who benefits from sustainable mobility transitions? Social inclusion, populist resistance and elite capture in Bergen, Norway
Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild; Sareen, Siddharth; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Transitioning to sustainable mobility systems is generally thought to require three approaches: avoid, shift and improve. We examine a combination of these in a city at the forefront of implementing transition policies, ...