summary of work package 3

1. Work Package 3
Ankit Kumar

2. What
How do societal and institutional factors affect the
viability of smart grid implementation
and use?

3. Who and Where
• led by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
• Local (villages), regional (Bihar) and national (India)
level

4. How
• Qualitative
• Close study of RS smart grid prototypes in villages
• ethnographic approach
– User behaviours, meanings, values, practices
– RS implementation approach
• “following the actors” (Latour, 2005)
– Insights about institutions, players, opportunities
and roadblocks

5. Why
• practical and theoretical discussions about user and
engagement related questions
• importance of routines and practices
• relate to regional and national dynamics
surrounding smart grids

6. What for
• rich data generation for theorizing
• inform the development (WP1) and implementation
of prototypes (WP2)
• feed into the ethical analyses of WP4
• theorizing on upscaling of WP5