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L'électricité et les pouvoirs locaux en Frane (1880-1980) : Une autre histoire du service public.
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ISBN: 2807605737 2807605729 2807605745 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bruxelles, Belgium : P.I.E. Peter Lang,

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L'électricité, un service public jacobin ? À rebours des idées reçues, cet ouvrage montre le rôle joué par les pouvoirs locaux dans la construction de ce qui est devenu un pilier de l'État-Providence en France, au XXe siècle. Cette influence, peu abordée dans l'historiographie, doit être mise en regard avec les origines du secteur électrique : un système sociotechnique ancré et organisé au niveau communal. Jamais effacée, cette « matrice » a façonné de manière durable la gestion du service public. Elle explique le maintien de plusieurs prérogatives locales au moment de la nationalisation (concessions de distribution, régies municipales et départementales, etc.). Elle éclaire la prise de certaines décisions après la création d'Électricité de France, en matière de redistribution sociale (soutien aux usagers domestiques) ou d'aménagement du territoire (péréquation des prix, électrification rurale). En exhumant l'action des pouvoirs locaux et de leur principale organisation représentative, la FNCCR (Fédération nationale des collectivités concédantes et régies), cette autre histoire du service public, racontée « par le bas », nuance la vision d'un État hégémonique. Elle permet aussi de mieux appréhender les mutations actuelles du secteur électrique, à l'heure où les questions de décentralisation refont surface dans les débats politiques.


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The sinews of state power : the rise and demise of the cohesive local state in Rural China
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ISBN: 0190609516 019060574X 0190605758 0190605731 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Based on original fieldwork, 'The Sinews of State Power' seeks to understand continuous rural instability in China despite national reforms in the post-2000s. It offers a fresh perspective by revisiting the fundamental components of a capable government - a coherent and robust local leadership - and tracing its rise and demise since the Maoist era.


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Energy Branding : Harnessing Consumer Power
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ISBN: 3319571982 3319571974 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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‘An in-depth examination of the modern energy consumer that represents a landmark step forward in energy branding and marketing.’ —Kevin Lane Keller, E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, USA ‘Fridrik offers a unique approach to create value for the utilities and their customers.’ —Jim Rogers, retired CEO, Duke Energy Demonstrating the potential of building strong brands in the energy sector, this book explores the challenges of shifting the perception of energy from a commodity business into a consumer brand. Energy suppliers are increasingly being met with skepticism, indicating the need for a greater focus on marketing and branding in the energy industry. The author examines both perspectives of energy as a commodity business and a consumer brand, as well as the perception of energy consumers across Europe. Topics discussed include green energy, the liberalization of the electricity industry, and the relationship between consumers and executives in the energy market. One of the first of its kind, this book offers a unique and innovative study of the development of branding in the energy industry, and sheds light on future marketing strategies.


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A Moral Technology : Electrification as Political Ritual in New Delhi
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ISBN: 1501707523 1501707914 1501707515 1501707922 Year: 2017 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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In India over the past century, electrification has meant many things: it has been a colonial gift of modern technology, a tool of national integration and political communication, and a means of gauging the country's participation in globalization. Electric lights have marked out places of power, and massive infrastructures have been installed in hopes of realizing political promises. In A Moral Technology, the grids and wires of an urban public utility are revealed to be not only material goods but also objects of intense moral concern. Leo Coleman offers a distinctive anthropological approach to electrification in New Delhi as more than just an economic or industrial process, or a "gridding" of social and political relations. It may be understood instead as a ritual action that has formed modern urban communities and people's sense of citizenship, and structured debates over state power and political legitimacy.Coleman explores three historical and ethnographic case studies from the founding of New Delhi as an imperial capital city, to its reshaping as a national capital for post-independence India, up to its recent emergence as a contemporary global city. These case studies closely describe technological politics, rituals, and legal reforms at key moments of political change in India, and together they support Coleman's argument that ritual performances, moral judgments, and technological installations combine to shape modern state power, civic life, and political community.


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Electricity in Africa : the politics of transformation in Uganda
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ISBN: 1787440575 1787441075 1847011691 1847011683 Year: 2017 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey,

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No country has managed to develop beyond a subsistence economy without ensuring at least minimum access to electricity for the majority of its population. Yet many sub-Saharan African countries struggle to meet demand. Why is this, and what can be done to reduce energy poverty and further Africa's development? Examining the politics and processes surrounding electricity infrastructure, provision and reform, the author provides an overview of historical and contemporary debates about access in the sub-continent, and explores the shifting role and influence of national governments and of multilateral agencies in energy reform decisions. He describes a challenging political environment for electricity supply, with African governments becoming increasingly frustrated with the rules and the processes of multilateral donors. Civil society also began to question reform choices, and governments in turn looked to new development partners, such as China, to chart a fresh path of energy transformation. Drawing on over fifteen years of research on Uganda, which has one of the lowest levels of access to electricity in Africa and has struggled to construct several, large hydroelectric dams on the Nile, Gore argues that there is a critical need to recognize how the changing political and social context in African countries, and globally, has affected the capacity to fulfil national energy goals, minimize energy poverty and transform economies. Christopher Gore is Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.


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Analysis and Modelling of the French Capacity Mechanism : Impact Assessment of Energy Policy Measures on the Security of Supply
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ISBN: 3658200936 3658200928 Year: 2017 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler,

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Emil Kraft analyses the French capacity remuneration mechanism design and develops a capacity market model that draws upon an agent-based simulation. The capacity mechanism was implemented to mitigate the imminent risk to the security of supply and to complement the electricity markets. The author applies his model to real data in three scenarios and assesses both the impact of the mechanism on the development of the French generation fleet until 2050 and the evolution of the capacity prices. The key conclusions consist of the effectiveness and the controllability of the implemented mechanism. As a complement to functioning electricity markets it is able to provide sufficient investment incentives and thus to guarantee the French security of supply in the future. Contents • Overview of the French Electricity System • Decentralised Capacity Mechanism • Modelling a Decentralised Capacity Market • Results and Sensitivity Analyses • Cross-Border Participation and Market Coupling Target Groups • Lecturers and students of energy economics, industrial engineering, economic policy and business information technology • Experts working in the fields of energy economics, energy trade and policy consulting The Author Emil Kraft works as a research fellow at the Chair of Energy Economics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the research group "Energy Markets and Energy System Analysis". His research focuses on future market design and the integration of renewable energies into the electricity markets and the future electricity system.


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International trade in sustainable electricity : regulatory challenges in international economic law
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ISBN: 1316730263 1316743772 1316745708 1316615146 1316681270 1316747638 1316753425 110716334X 131675149X 1316732193 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Cross-border trade in electricity is rapidly expanding as a result of technical innovations, economic and geopolitical developments, and the ongoing decarbonisation of the electricity sector in response to climate change. The expansion of electricity networks and the integration of increasing shares of renewable energy (RE) electricity into the grid have made long-distance electricity flows both feasible and desirable. Drawing on the work of experts in trade and energy law and policy, and offering novel, multidisciplinary perspectives on the rapidly evolving landscape shaping international trade in electricity, this book examines the most important challenges - technical, economic, legal and policy-related - posed by long-distance and sustainable electricity trade. The book explores the regulatory implications of the policy instruments aimed at supporting RE electricity and considers how best to promote greater overall coherence in international electricity governance.


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When they hid the fire : a history of electricity and invisible energy in America
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ISBN: 0822981939 9780822981930 9780822964254 0822964252 Year: 2017 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. Arguing that both technical and cultural factors played a role, Daniel French shows how electricity became an invisible and abstract form of energy in American society. As technological advancements allowed for an increasing physical distance between power generation and power consumption, the commodity of electricity became consciously detached from the environmentally destructive fire and coal that produced it. This development, along with cultural forces, led the public to define electricity as mysterious, utopian, and an alternative to nearby fire-based energy sources. With its adoption occurring simultaneously with Progressivism and consumerism, electricity use was encouraged and seen as an integral part of improvement and modernity, leading Americans to culturally construct electricity as unlimited and environmentally inconsequential--a newfound "basic right" of life in the United States.

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