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Collective energy self-consumption in buildings: community rules definition and privacy in a shared space as a social innovation

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The imperatives of energy transition are leading to the emergence of “collective energy self-consumption” projects, where a community of consumers shares an on-the-spot renewable production. For economic and environmental issues, the rate of this self-production in the whole consumption of community should be maximized and, therefore, dynamic rules of energy share have to be defined. Our research aims to question collective self-consumption as a social innovation, as it leads to new ways of organizing the collective action (Welck, Yates, 2018) of energy community actors in a shared space (Hewitt et al., 2018). Collective self-consumption involves a twofold challenge: on the one hand, optimizing, and, therefore, controlling energy consumption; on the other hand, respecting the privacy of individual practices (Naus et al., 2015) of the community members. Within cooperative housing, community governance defines the rules of electricity share. These rules are intertwined with the sharing of space (Launay, 2018) and lifestyle (Brusadelli et al., 2016). Through an ethnographic qualitative method, we analyse two collective self-consumption electricity projects in cooperative housing (in France and Switzerland). By mobilizing the theory of practices and the interactionist approach, we aim at questioning the modalities of control of consumption - and, actually, of individual practices - and their articulation with the collective definition of rules. The articulation of these two dimensions reveals a range of socio-material solutions that actors identify in order to reach compromises between the collective and the individual in the optimization of self-consumption. These socio-material solutions are embodied in the daily practices of two types of space, common laundries and private apartments, and are investing scenes of formal or informal deliberation. Thus, our research opens up perspectives for energy transition (Hoppe, de Vries, 2019) by analysing the dynamic rules of on-the-spot energy production, at the scale of residential buildings, as a social innovation that meets local and national regulations (Lavrijssen, Carrillo Parra, 2017).
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hal-02501951 , version 1 (08-03-2020)

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Marta Pappalardo, Gilles Debizet. Collective energy self-consumption in buildings: community rules definition and privacy in a shared space as a social innovation. 11th International Social Innovation Research Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, Sep 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-02501951⟩
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