Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 2: Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future: Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík.
Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy. Melsted shows that, contrary to being an inevitable outcome in Iceland, the shift to geothermal energy was a carefully crafted strategy that required three key factors: sufficient available resources, suitable infrastructure...
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| description | Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy. Melsted shows that, contrary to being an inevitable outcome in Iceland, the shift to geothermal energy was a carefully crafted strategy that required three key factors: sufficient available resources, suitable infrastructure and technologies, and most crucially perhaps, the creation of a new societal demand. This necessitated a strong partnership between government actors and energy users, who succeeded in rebranding geothermal energy as the most viable and desirable energy source. |
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| spelling | ftdatacite:10.5282/rcc/8738 2025-01-16T22:36:13+00:00 Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 2: Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future: Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. Melsted, Odinn 2019 application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8738 http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/8738/ en eng Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany RCC Perspectives is an open-access publication; articles may be downloaded, copied, and redistributed free of charge and the text may be reprinted in whole or in part, provided that the author and source are attributed. Image copyright is retained by the individual artists; their permission may be required in case of reproduction. CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 CC-BY infrastructure population resources coal consumption energy geothermal power hydroelectric power sustainability technology Text article-journal Journal Article ScholarlyArticle 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8738 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy. Melsted shows that, contrary to being an inevitable outcome in Iceland, the shift to geothermal energy was a carefully crafted strategy that required three key factors: sufficient available resources, suitable infrastructure and technologies, and most crucially perhaps, the creation of a new societal demand. This necessitated a strong partnership between government actors and energy users, who succeeded in rebranding geothermal energy as the most viable and desirable energy source. Text Iceland Reykjavík Reykjavík DataCite Reykjavík |
| spellingShingle | infrastructure population resources coal consumption energy geothermal power hydroelectric power sustainability technology Melsted, Odinn Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 2: Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future: Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. |
| title | Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 2: Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future: Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. |
| title_full | Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 2: Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future: Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. |
| title_fullStr | Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 2: Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future: Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 2: Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future: Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. |
| title_short | Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. : RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 2: Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future: Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík. |
| title_sort | who generates demand for sustainable energy transitions? geothermal heating in reykjavík. : rcc perspectives: transformations in environment and society 2019, no. 2: energizing the spaces of everyday life: learning from the past for a sustainable future: who generates demand for sustainable energy transitions? geothermal heating in reykjavík. |
| topic | infrastructure population resources coal consumption energy geothermal power hydroelectric power sustainability technology |
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