Titlebook: Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life; Smart Utopia? Yolande Strengers Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publisher

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Book 2013This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and extends the possibilities of four residential smart strategies: energy feedback, dynamic pricing, home automation and micro-generation, focusing on how they are being integrated into everyday practice.

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978-1-349-44325-3Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013

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Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life978-1-137-26705-4Series ISSN 2947-8227 Series E-ISSN 2947-8235

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2947-8227 es and extends the possibilities of four residential smart strategies: energy feedback, dynamic pricing, home automation and micro-generation, focusing on how they are being integrated into everyday practice.978-1-349-44325-3978-1-137-26705-4Series ISSN 2947-8227 Series E-ISSN 2947-8235

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Micro-generatione technologies sits outside these issues; it features as either the social acceptance of renewable or small-scale generation technologies (Caird & Roy 2010; Sauter & Watson 2007; Wolsink 2012) or a type of behavioural change resulting from contact with, and awareness of, a localised energy supply system (Keirstead 2007).

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2947-8227 es and extends the possibilities of four residential smart strategies: energy feedback, dynamic pricing, home automation and micro-generation, focusing on how they are being integrated into everyday practice.978-1-349-44325-3978-1-137-26705-4Series ISSN 2947-8227 Series E-ISSN 2947-8235

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Introducing the Smart Utopiay, security and utilitarian control in a technologically mediated and enabled environment. Further, it is employed by its proponents as a means of imagining and realising social and technological progress, while simultaneously solving a range of social and environmental problems.

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Imagining the Smart Utopiatiness and hardship, and fuelled by ‘clean, quiet, powerful electricity’ (Segal 1986: 123). The irony is that these utopian visions of ‘nowhere’ often ended up going nowhere, never being realised, or at least not in the ways these utopians imagined.

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Resource Manehavioural scientists — and is positioned as an efficient and well-informed micro-resource manager who exercises control and choice over his consumption and energy options. In this way, Resource Man embodies . in all his actions (Ellul 1976; see Chapter 2), by choosing a range of technological and data-mediated tools to suit his unique lifestyle.