ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book contributes to knowledge about electricity infrastructures and interruptions by utilizing and contributing to social science perspectives on infrastructures and systems, risk, and resilience. It explores a number of special sites within the energy supply chain. The first case examines how national security experts mitigate electricity interruptions as risks to the population, government, and economy. The second case turns to the management of interruptions as risks in the open electric power markets – a topical focus considering that energy infrastructures have been liberalized and opened to market competition all over the world. The book explores how lay people reconstruct electric power interruptions and their effects as risks in households. It draws from the social science literature to add to the debates on alleged infrastructural fragilities in electricity supplies.
