Journal article
From responsibilization to responsiveness through metrics: Smart meter deployment in Australia
S Chandrashekeran
Geoforum | Elsevier | Published : 2020
Abstract
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Smart meters are a central element in strategies to create data-rich environments that enhance the rationalization and technical optimization of electricity production and consumption. Bold claims are made by industry and government that smart measurement devices will enable a new class of responsibilizing subjects who can be nudged and incentivized to orchestrate efficient low carbon energy governance. The carbon governmentality literature reveals the microphysics of power involved in responsibilization-as-governance. However, it insufficiently explains how the individualization of responsibility is shaped by and coexists with other sectoral and policy priorities, and po..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This article is based on research funded by the University of Melbourne Carlton Connect Initiative Fund No. 1554149, and benefitted greatly from the research assistance from Paris Hadfield and Dr Svenja Keele then at the University of Melbourne. The author is grateful to those interviewed and involved in workshops for this research; comments from participants in the Grid City workshop in 2017 at Sydney University organized by Professors Robyn Dowling, Pauline McGuirk, Harriet Bulkeley and Heather Lovell; and conversations with colleagues at the Energy Transition Hub at the University of Melbourne, Professor Lee Godden, Dr Anna Kallies and Dr Svenja Keele as part of the project "Smart meter deployment in Australia and Germany -enabling innovation and consumer benefits."