Conceptualising connections: energy demand, infrastructures and social practices

Re-Conceptualising Public Health Interventions in Government: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Conceptualising information literacy as social practice: a study of pregnant women's information practices

Introduction. The present study presents a view of information literacy not primarily as skill but as different practices, situated within specific social and institutional contexts. It suggests that questions of authority of knowledge are central to understanding people's information practices. Method. First, the concept of information practices is developed, drawing on theories from informati...

A New Real-Time Pricing Scheme Considering Smart Building Energy Management System

Real-time pricing schemes make the customers to feel the energy price volatility and improve their load profiles. However, these schemes have no significant effect on demand-side uncertainty reduction. In this paper, considering smart grid infrastructures and smart building Energy Management System (EMS), a new real-time pricing scheme is presented to reduce the uncertainty of demand-side. In t...

Operation of multi Carrier microgrid (MCMG) considering demand response

: In this paper, the operation of a future distribution network is discussed under the assumption of a multi-carrier microgrid (MCMG) concept. The new model considers a modern energy management technique in electricity and natural gas networks based on a novel demand side management (DSM) which the energy tariff for responsive loads are correlated to the energy input of the network and changes ...

Developing Multi-Layer Information Infrastructures: Advancing Social Innovation through Public-Private Governance

Information infrastructures of businesses and government are increasingly interwoven. The development of these information infrastructures often has a technological focus and the concurrent social innovation is ill understood. To address this gap, we study public–private information infrastructure developments at three layers over a prolonged period of time. Stakeholders have to alter existing ...