In the advanced countries, the electrification of houses was one step further in the wave of modernization resulting from the sudden arrival of…
By the 1870s the gas industry had no competitors for lighting, turning it into a near monopoly. However, by the 1880s the possibility of using…
The energizing of Danish homes after World War II introduced a new heating culture, which paved the way for new lifestyles. Modernist architects…
Access to clean and affordable energy services and technologies is a global concern as stated in global conventions and goals. Different energy…
The electrification of households in Los Angeles provides an instructive window through which to study the changing contours of masculinity…
At the same time that urban American hearths and kitchens became dependent upon coal, proscriptive accounts of gendered domesticity grew in…
Traditional energy histories have treated electrification as an inevitability: the assumption has been that making cheap energy supply readily…
The goal of maintaining current levels of energy supply and demand whilst reducing their carbon intensity will require greater use of renewables.…
This paper examines the linked concepts of flexibility and control, focusing on how these are enacted in the operation of control rooms in…
