Multi-Level Negotiations in Electric Infrastructure Planning

电力基础设施规划的多层次谈判

• 批准号: 2148673
• 负责人: Dominic Boyer
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2148673&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Multi; Level; Negotiations; Electric; Infrastructure

Electricity has taken on increased significance in attempts to decarbonize the global economy. Electric infrastructural reform efforts require attention to social and environmental impacts of new technologies, including equity and climate concerns. Various stakeholders at multiple levels must negotiate to weigh these issues. How is this approached and what are the consequences in terms of implementation, equity and climate outcomes? This project tests theory from cultural anthropology to investigate how different levels of stakeholder, from individual, to community, to governmental, interact in energy infrastructure planning. It leverages emergent dynamics of unfolding energy initiatives to understand how energy politics is shaped by communities, powerful actors, and the law. Project data will be shared widely and results will be disseminated to academic and non-academic audiences, including policy experts and the public. The project uses interviews and participant observation to test research hypotheses that investigate how the politics of electricity are evolving as electrification becomes increasingly central to models of energy transition. Specifically, the project studies the motivations, stakes, attitudes and desired outcomes of six study populations: (1) state and local government officials, (2) electrical utility administrators and engineers, (3) energy transition entrepreneurs, (4) critics of electrify everything measures, (5) environmental activists and electrify everything champions, and (6) early adopter homeowners and drivers participating in new and recent electrification initiatives. The project will shed light on multiple layers of emergent political dynamics surrounding rapid electrification and their interactions as such initiatives take hold in numerous contexts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

电力在试图使全球经济脱碳的尝试中提高了意义。电力基础设施改革的工作需要关注新技术的社会和环境影响，包括公平和气候问题。多个级别的各种利益相关者必须协商以权衡这些问题。这种方法如何处理？在实施，公平和气候结果方面产生了什么后果？该项目测试了从文化人类学的理论，调查了从个人，到社区到政府，在能源基础设施计划中互动的不同级别的利益相关者如何。它利用了不断发展的能源计划的新兴动态，以了解能源政治是如何由社区，强大的参与者和法律塑造的。项目数据将被广泛共享，结果将被传播到包括政策专家和公众在内的学术和非学术受众。该项目使用访谈和参与者观察来检验研究假设，这些假设研究了电力政治如何在电气化变得越来越重要的能源过渡模型中核心。 Specifically, the project studies the motivations, stakes, attitudes and desired outcomes of six study populations: (1) state and local government officials, (2) electrical utility administrators and engineers, (3) energy transition entrepreneurs, (4) critics of electrify everything measures, (5) environmental activists and electrify everything champions, and (6) early adopter homeowners and drivers participating in new and recent electrification initiatives.该项目将阐明围绕快速电气化的新兴政治动态及其相互作用的多个层次，因为该倡议在许多情况下都持有。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估标准来通过评估来获得支持的。