Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life: Smart Utopia? (Consumption and Public Life) (Hardcover)

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This 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.

About the Author


Yolande Strengers is a Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow and co-leader of the Beyond Behaviour Change research program at the Urban Research Centre, RMIT University, Australia. Her research seeks to understand how emerging technologies such as smart grids, smart meters and household technologies are reshaping everyday practices.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781137267047
ISBN-10: 1137267046
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date: September 25th, 2013
Pages: 204
Language: English
Series: Consumption and Public Life