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dc.contributor.authorEllsworth-Krebs, Katherine
dc.contributor.authorReid, Louise
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-10T23:34:05Z
dc.date.available2017-05-10T23:34:05Z
dc.date.issued2016-10
dc.identifier.citationEllsworth-Krebs , K & Reid , L 2016 , ' Conceptualising energy prosumption : exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UK ' , Environment and Planning A , vol. 48 , no. 10 , pp. 1988-2005 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16649182en
dc.identifier.issn0308-518X
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 245443770
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 8888f49f-d2c6-4a3d-bf7a-d60cfbe5f018
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:F1D51B740C4BB1BE290C70F291E43335
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84989947720
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-0577-1210/work/54819126
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-3098-1498/work/30461242
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000385660900008
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/10745
dc.descriptionThis work was funded by Economic and Social Research Council (grant number ES/K009516/1), Carnegie Trust (31680) and a PhD studentship at the University of St Andrews.en
dc.description.abstractEnergy prosumption has become a common phrase as more householders and communities are producing and consuming their own electricity and heat. Prosumption is a combination of two words: production and consumption, and emerged as a concept at a time when consumers were beginning to be more proactive and take over steps traditionally thought of as ‘production’. In many ways, energy prosumption is nothing new (e.g. wood combustion), yet development of our modern energy system has changed the relationships between energy producers and consumers (e.g. smart meters, renewable energy production). Thus, there is a growing body of research interested in the motivation and conditions for the uptake of microgeneration technologies and the implications to energy infrastructures and big energy producers. However, this ‘energy prosumption’ scholarship generally lacks a strong conceptual foundation and misses the opportunity to build on existing prosumption literature and related debates. This paper brings the wealth of literature on prosumption into the energy context and reflects on the insights offered by a prosumption lens. Our study explores a particular manifestation of prosumption – when a household is simultaneously a producer and consumer of their heat and/or electricity via microgeneration – and we present data from semi-structured interviews with 28 households living with microgeneration technologies in Scotland, UK. Thus, we provide a robust framework from which future research on household and community energy prosumption can build.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironment and Planning Aen
dc.rightsCopyright The Authors 2016. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16649182en
dc.subjectProsumptionen
dc.subjectCo-provisionen
dc.subjectRenewable energyen
dc.subjectMicrogenerationen
dc.subjectUKen
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectH Social Sciencesen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subjectSDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energyen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.subject.lccHen
dc.titleConceptualising energy prosumption : exploring energy production, consumption and microgeneration in Scotland, UKen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEconomic & Social Research Councilen
dc.contributor.sponsorCarnegie Trusten
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16649182
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2017-05-10
dc.identifier.grantnumberES/K009516/1en
dc.identifier.grantnumber31680en


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