Characterizing Hybrid Heating in the Households: Diverse Configurational Arrangements premised on Citizen’s Agency and Peer-support

Thumbnail Image

Access rights

openAccess
CC BY
publishedVersion

URL

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
This publication is imported from Aalto University research portal.
View publication in the Research portal (opens in new window)
View/Open full text file from the Research portal (opens in new window)

Authors

Date

2025-06

Department

Department of Design

Major/Subject

Mcode

Degree programme

Language

en

Pages

16

Series

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Volume 55

Abstract

Households are moving beyond the adoption of single renewable energy technologies. Additive adoption of heating systems has resulted in ‘hybrid heating’ comprised of several complementary energy systems. The hybridization of heating is spreading rapidly among households, featuring high diversity regarding both the make-up of hybrid solutions and the householders who create them. Our close-up study of 56 Finnish households characterizes different aspects of hybrid heating and their interrelations. Households display considerable agency in setting-up, running and adjusting and innovating in their hybrids. Hybrid heating can be conceptualized as configurational arrangements that are made to ‘work’ in a particular setting, meshing, e.g. material, social and economic resources. From a policy perspective ‘hybrid heaters’ are not a coherent group to which supporting measures are easy to target. Yet this diversity also indicates a broadly distributed capacity for households to advance the low carbon energy transitions through hybridization of heating.

Description

Keywords

Energy transition, Household heating, Hybrid heating, Renewable energy technologies

Other note

DOI

10.1016/j.eist.2024.100958

Citation

Silvikko de Villafranca, M, Numminen, S & Hyysalo, S 2025, 'Characterizing Hybrid Heating in the Households: Diverse Configurational Arrangements premised on Citizen’s Agency and Peer-support', Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, vol. 55, 100958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100958

Permanent link to this item

https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-202501151236

Collections

[article-cris] Taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulu / ARTS