Electricity

The electrification of households in Los Angeles provides an instructive window through which to study the changing contours of masculinity between 1900 and 1930.

Traditional energy histories have treated electrification as an inevitability: the assumption has been that making cheap energy supply readily available for the masses required the energy efficiency uniquely attainable by large-scale networked electricity grids.

The goal of maintaining current levels of energy supply and demand whilst reducing their carbon intensity will require greater use of renewables. As a result, new forms of flexibility will be needed.

This paper examines the linked concepts of flexibility and control, focusing on how these are enacted in the operation of control rooms in Distribution Network Organisations.

This article introduces the concept of ‘Polyflexibility’ as a way of expressing the complexity of interacting forms of flexibility.

Berlin’s modern history provides an instructive window on the evolution of energy flexibility in an urban context.

This paper presents the World Energy Council (WEC) as an archive for research on the history of energy.

This article examines how the perils conjured by blackouts in American cities after 1965 became interpreted as a key point of political and bargaining leverage for the nation’s coal miners.

During the 19th C., the Industrial Revolution and technical advances from the modern era led to the massive use of glass in architectural constructions, which contributed to the transparency of volumes as well as t

In this special issue, we argue that light(s) and darkness(es) should be understood in their multiplicity, and that they constitute two aspects of the same phenomenon. They should, therefore, be studied in relation to each other.