Modular system approach for modelling socio-technical transitions towards alternative energy infrastructures in urban areas

Abstract

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) in urban energy systems requires the implementation of alter-native infrastructure configurations across different geographical, technical and social scales. Furthermore, alternative configurations may improve systems resilience and democratization of service provision. How-ever, unlike current centralised systems, which are well understood from the technical and social perspectives, there is a lack of knowledge on the socio-technical interplay across multiple intermediate scales of alternative infrastructures, defined as all the possible configurations in between off-grid and centralised infrastructure. There are various concepts in the literature de..