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 electricity for street lighting changed the equation and the threat for gas industry was huge.
L’accès à des services énergétiques propres et abordables est une préoccupation mondiale, comme le stipulent les conventions internationales. Au sein des ménages, il est possible d’identifier des intérêts et des besoins énergétiques distincts entre hommes et femmes.
L’électrification des foyers à Los Angeles ouvre une fenêtre pour l’étude du changement des contours de la masculinité entre 1900 et 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.