David Hawkey
University of Edinburgh
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Technology Analysis & Strategic Management | 2014
David Hawkey; Janette Webb
Many national energy policies envisage residual and renewable heat sources with district heating (DH) as a component of sustainable energy systems. There is however limited empirical evidence about facilitation of development in the context of liberalised markets and diminished local government control over direct service provision. Recent attempts to stimulate DH have had variable outcomes in different countries. Using five case studies, we ask why heat network development in the UK takes a relatively piecemeal and fragmented form in comparison with the Netherlands and Norway, countries whose heating sectors are comparable with the UK and where DH provision is limited. We argue that energy market liberalisation has been enacted differentially, resulting in different political and economic governance structures: in comparison with the UK liberal market economy, the more coordinated market economies of the Netherlands and Norway retain greater capacity for collaboration between energy utilities, localities and states, resulting in stronger foundations for district energy. Implications for UK governance are considered.
Journal of Cultural Economy | 2017
Janette Webb; David Hawkey
ABSTRACT Energy policies increasingly rely on market instruments to meet societal objectives for climate change mitigation. We explore the application of such instruments in low carbon heat markets. Using a conceptual framework derived from actor network theory and economic sociology, we examine the role of technical-economic models as market devices in two heat network proposals in British cities. Government intermediaries relied on the models to enact the mutual financial and carbon benefits of an area-wide heat market, and to enrol multiple public sector organisations in innovation. In practice, the models produced the opposite response: parties synthesised the modelled cost–benefit calculations into the existing public services market agencement and translated the model numbers ino opportunities to secure competitive advantage for their own organisation. These activities undermined the projected cost and carbon saving logic of the collective actor solution. The findings demonstrate the potent economic agency of market-emulating public finance and competitive procurement instruments in governing such organisational decisions, and indicate the limited traction of a low carbon calculus, which lacked significant political or senior management sponsorship. Questions are posed about the formatting of economic agency suited to securing the common goods of a sustainable society.
Journal of Cleaner Production | 2013
David Hawkey; Janette Webb; Mark Winskel
Environmental innovation and societal transitions | 2012
David Hawkey
Cities | 2016
Janette Webb; David Hawkey; Margaret Tingey
Journal of Theoretical Biology | 2008
Graham R. S. Ritchie; Simon Kirby; David Hawkey
Archive | 2009
David Hawkey
Archive | 2014
David Hawkey; Margaret Tingey; Janette Webb
Archive | 2015
David Hawkey; Janette Webb; Heather Lovell; David McCrone; Margaret Tingey; Mark Winskel
Families,Relationships and Societies | 2016
Janette Webb; David Hawkey; David McCrone; Margaret Tingey