Research Agenda

Energy, specifically electricity, is at the crux of technological innovations and political debates regarding sustainable transitions. As both an emerging social movement and interdisciplinary field of study, energy democracy reflects critical efforts towards creating strategies for adaptive climate governance. As a social movement, energy democracy calls for the democratization of...

Leah Sprain is co-organizing a workshop on energy democracy with Danielle Endres, Tarla Peterson, Andrea Feldspauch-Parker to be held in Salt Lake City on July, 2017. It will bring together a range of scholars, local energy practitioners, and publics to reflect on and initiate a lively conversation about energy democracy...