ABSTRACT
The climate change context requires transition to a low-carbon society, which includes a shift towards people becoming producers of renewable energy in their own homes or through local energy communities. This gives the simultaneous benefit of adding renewables into the national energy mix, improving grid flexibility and increasing social acceptance of renewables. To promote such a change, we need a deeper understanding of how people can engage on an equitable basis. Capabilities embedded in social differentiation in societies might limit the potential of household prosumers and local energy communities. This chapter explores narratives of the Norwegian electricity system among policymakers, electricity sector actors and Norwegian prosumers. Drawing on the energy justice framework we explore how energy narratives reinforce and produce structures of gender and intersectional social differentiation that limit inclusive energy transition and hinder citizen energy production from becoming more mainstream. This chapter aims to fill the knowledge gap concerning how gender relations frame women and men’s participation and decision-making concerning household and community energy transition.
