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Technology Analysis & Strategic Management | 2014

District energy development in liberalised markets: situating UK heat network development in comparison with Dutch and Norwegian case studies

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

On (not) assembling a market for sustainable energy: heat network infrastructure and British cities

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

Organisation and governance of urban energy systems: district heating and cooling in the UK

David Hawkey; Janette Webb; Mark Winskel


Environmental innovation and societal transitions | 2012

District Heating in the UK: a Technological Innovation Systems Analysis

David Hawkey


Cities | 2016

Governing cities for sustainable energy: The UK case

Janette Webb; David Hawkey; Margaret Tingey


Journal of Theoretical Biology | 2008

Song learning as an indicator mechanism: Modelling the developmental stress hypothesis

Graham R. S. Ritchie; Simon Kirby; David Hawkey


Archive | 2009

WILL "DISTRICT HEATING COME TO TOWN"? ANALYSIS OF CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE UK

David Hawkey


Archive | 2014

Local Engagement in UK Energy Systems: A Pilot Study of Current Activities and Future Impact

David Hawkey; Margaret Tingey; Janette Webb


Archive | 2015

Sustainable Urban Energy Policy: Heat and the City

David Hawkey; Janette Webb; Heather Lovell; David McCrone; Margaret Tingey; Mark Winskel


Families,Relationships and Societies | 2016

House, home and transforming energyin a cold climate

Janette Webb; David Hawkey; David McCrone; Margaret Tingey

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Janette Webb

University of Edinburgh

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Mark Winskel

University of Edinburgh

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Graham R. S. Ritchie

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

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Simon Kirby

University of Edinburgh

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