Historicising flexibility

Stanley Blue, Peter J. Forman and Elizabeth Shove

Special issue of Journal of Energy History / Revue d’Histoire de l’Énergie, featuring articles:

• Polyflexibility in public lighting | Robert Shaw
• The history of heat-as-a-service for promoting domestic demand-side flexibility: Lessons from the case of Budget Warmth | Michael J. Fell
• Flexibilities in energy supply and demand: Legacies and lessons from the past | Stanley Blue, Peter J. Forman and Elizabeth Shove
• Flexibility of real-time energy distribution: the changing practices of energy control rooms | Simone Abram, Antti Silvast
• Creating supply, creating demand: Gas and electricity in Montréal from the First World War to the Great Depression  | Clarence Hatton-Proulx
• Demanding demand: Political configurations of energy flexibility in Berlin, 1920-2020 | Timothy Moss, Siddharth Sareen
• Histories of balancing demand and supply in the UK’s gas networks, 1795 – present | Peter J. Forman

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