CET researcher Siddharth Sareen examines how digitisation can enable socially inclusive energy transitions in a new EU project
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Digitisation enables the electrification of mobility. How can we ensure this transition is just?
CET researcher Siddharth Sareen examines how digitisation can enable socially inclusive energy transitions in a new EU project
Responsive Organising for Low Emission Societies (ROLES) is funded through the Joint Programming Initiative Climate Joint Transnational Call on “Enabling Societal Transformation in the Face of Climate Change” (SOLSTICE). The project involves partners in three countries: Norway, the United Kingdom and Italy.
The project focuses on three case studies in medium-sized European cities. In addition to smart mobility transitions in Bergen, Norway, the project examines solar neighbourhoods in Brighton in the UK, and second-generation smart electric meter rollout in Trento, Italy.
- There is a need to understand how digitisation impacts energy transitions at different scales, a research interest I pursue. Transitions occur not just at one or another scale, but in complex ways entangled across scales, so we have to study changes at multiple scales and the connections between them, says Sareen.
The ROLES project kicked off in December 2020 and runs through to the end of 2023. Researchers involved in the project at CET are Siddharth Sareen, Håvard Haarstad, Devyn Remme and Katinka Lund Wågsæther. The team was able to conduct substantial preliminary fieldwork during autumn 2020 before the launch of the ROLES project, due to a synergistic focus with the Trond Mohn Foundation funded project that ran until December 2020.
