New energy Consumer roles and smart technologies – Actors, Practices and Equality

Project Information

eCAPE

Grant agreement ID: 786643

DOI

10.3030/786643

Project closed

EC signature date 30 May 2018

Start date 1 November 2018

End date 30 April 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 116 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 116 000,00

Coordinated by

AALBORG UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (27)

Masculine roles and practices in homes with photovoltaic systems

Author(s): Mette Mechlenborg, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: Building and Cities, Issue 3(1), 2022, Page(s) 638–652, ISSN 2632-6655
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/bc.211

The crisis that normalised time-shifting: Energy flexibility, price awareness and care during the energy crisis in Denmark

Author(s): Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Ander Rhiger Hanssen, Line Valdorff Madsen, Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen
Published in: Energy Efficiency, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 1570-646X
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12053-025-10327-z

Smart home technology adoption in Denmark: Diffusion, social differences, and energy consumption

Author(s): Anders Rhiger Hansen, Gianluca Trotta, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: Energy Efficiency, Issue 17, 2024, ISSN 1570-646X
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12053-024-10202-3

Environmental ethics in action: relations between practices, ethics and the culture of consumer society

Author(s): Anne Sofie Møller Askholm; Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: Consumption and Society, Issue 1 (2), 2022, Page(s) 294–312, ISSN 2752-8499
Publisher: Bristol University Press
DOI: 10.1332/xwic6056

Heterogeneity of Electricity Consumption Patterns in Vulnerable Households

Author(s): Gianluca Trotta, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Pernille Lykke Jørgensen
Published in: Energies, Issue 13/18, 2020, Page(s) 4713, ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/en13184713

Strong daily routinisation, weak energy flexibility: a survey study of the stability and adaptability of everyday energy practices

Author(s): Anders Rhiger Hansen, Line Valdorff Madsen, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: Consumption and Society, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 296-315, ISSN 2752-8499
Publisher: Bristol University Press
DOI: 10.1332/27528499y2024d000000012

Technological fascination and reluctance: gendered practices in the smart home

Author(s): Line Kryger Aagaard, Line Valdorff Madsen
Published in: Building and Cities, Issue 3(1), 2022, Page(s) 677–691, ISSN 2632-6655
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/bc.205

My smart home: an auto-ethnography of learning to live with smart technologies

Author(s): Line Kryger Aagaard, Toke Haunstrup Christensen, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: My smart home: an auto-ethnography of learning to live with smart technologies, 2023, ISSN 1617-4909
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-023-01725-0

The links and entanglements of energy vulnerability: Unpacking the consequences of the energy crisis in Denmark

Author(s): Line Valdorff Madsen, Anders Rhiger Hansen, Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: Energy Research & Social Science, Issue 118, 2025, Page(s) 103784, ISSN 2214-6296
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103784

Over- and underconsumption of residential heating: Analyzing occupant impacts on performance gaps between calculated and actual heating demand

Author(s): Anders Rhiger Hansen, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Issue 2654, 2023, Page(s) 012062, ISSN 1742-6588
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2654/1/012062

Electricity awareness and consumer demand for information

Author(s): Gianluca Trotta
Published in: International Journal of Consumer Studies, Issue 45/1, 2021, Page(s) 65-79, ISSN 1470-6423
Publisher: Blackwell Science
DOI: 10.1111/ijcs.12603

Energy justice in heat metering: Findings from a Danish experiment of metering and distribution in residential apartment buildings

Author(s): Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Sirid Bonderup, Line Kryger Aagaard, Anne Sofie Møller Askholm
Published in: Energy Research and Social Science, Issue 104, 2023, ISSN 2214-6296
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103250

Conceptualising ethical consumption within theories of practice

Author(s): Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: Journal of Consumer Culture, 2021, Page(s) 146954052110139, ISSN 1469-5405
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14695405211013956

“If I don’t do it, it feels wrong”: embodying environmental ethical reflexivity through cultivation and enactment of practices

Author(s): Anne Sofie Møller Askholm
Published in: Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, Issue 20, 2024, ISSN 1548-7733
Publisher: National Biological Information Infrastructure
DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2024.2350204

Caring for Comfort? How Social Relations Shape Household Practices of Home Comfort as Care

Author(s): Line Valdorff Madsen
Published in: Housing, Theory and Society, 2025, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 1403-6096
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2025.2478840

Heating practices during the energy crisis of 2022: the role of energy vulnerability and environmental concern

Author(s): Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Line Valdorff Madsen, Line Kryger Aagaard, Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen
Published in: Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, Issue 20, 2024, ISSN 1548-7733
Publisher: National Biological Information Infrastructure
DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2024.2420413

In Control or Being Controlled? Investigating the Control of Space Heating in Smart Homes

Author(s): Simon Peter Aslak Kondrup Larsen, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Line Valdorff Madsen
Published in: Sustainability, Issue Vol 15 Issue 12, 2023, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su15129489

Gendered homes in theories of practice: A framework for research in residential energy consumption

Author(s): Mette Mechlenborg, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: Energy Research & Social Science, Issue 67, 2020, Page(s) 101538, ISSN 2214-6296
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101538

The price elasticity of residential district heating demand: New evidence from a dynamic panel approach

Author(s): Gianluca Trotta Anders Rhiger Hansen
Published in: Energy Economics, Issue 112, 2022, ISSN 0140-9883
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106163

Policies for times of disruptions: How households in Europe dealt with the energy crisis in the winter 2022/2023

Author(s): Melanie Jaeger-Erben, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Anders Rhiger Hansen, Maciej Frąckowiak, Alice Guilbert, Przemysław Pluciński, Marlyne Sahakian, Ulrikke Bryn Wethal, Sigrid Wertheim-Heck
Published in: Energy Policy, Issue 205, 2025, Page(s) 114711, ISSN 0301-4215
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114711

Assessing drivers of energy consumption and progress toward energy targets in Italy

Author(s): Gianluca Trotta
Published in: Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, Issue 15/3, 2020, Page(s) 137-156, ISSN 1556-7249
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/15567249.2020.1778817

Embodied competencies and smart home technology in energy use: three ways users integrate smart heating systems in everyday practices

Author(s): Line Valdorff Madsen; Anders Rhiger Hansen; Simon Peter Aslak Kondrup Larsen
Published in: Energy Efficiency, Issue vol. 16 , no. 6, 2023, ISSN 1570-646X
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12053-023-10138-0

Beyond energy justice: Ethics of care as a new approach in the energy system

Author(s): Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: Energy Research & Social Science, Issue 111, 2024, Page(s) 103470, ISSN 2214-6296
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103470

When Smart Technologies Enter Household Practices: The Gendered Implications of Digital Housekeeping

Author(s): Line Kryger Aagaard
Published in: Housing, Theory and Society, 2022, ISSN 1403-6096
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2022.2094460

An empirical analysis of domestic electricity load profiles: Who consumes how much and when?

Author(s): Gianluca Trotta
Published in: Applied Energy, Issue 275, 2020, Page(s) 115399, ISSN 0306-2619
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115399

The effect of changing registration taxes on electric vehicle adoption in Denmark

Author(s): Gianluca Trotta, Stephan Sommer
Published in: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Issue 185, 2024, Page(s) 104117, ISSN 0965-8564
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2024.104117

The meaning of convenience in smart home imaginaries: tech industry insights

Author(s): Line Kryger Aagaard
Published in: Buildings and Cities, Issue 2/1, 2021, Page(s) 568-582, ISSN 2632-6655
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/bc.93

Non-peer reviewed articles (3)

Hjemlighed digitaliseret:Nye praksisser og kønsroller i det smarte hjem

Author(s): Aagaard, L. K.
Published in: Jordens Folk, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 2597-0674
Publisher: Dansk Etnografisk Forening

Hjemlighed digitaliseret: Nye praksisser og kønsroller i det smarte hjem

Author(s): Aagaard, L. K.
Published in: Jordens Folk, Issue 58(2), 2023, Page(s) 45-55, ISSN 0021-7484
Publisher: Dansk Etnografisk Forening, Det Kgl. Bibliotek

Energy, emerging technologies and gender in homes

Author(s): Yolande Strengers , Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Kari Dahlgren, Line Kryger Aagaard
Published in: Buildings and Cities, Issue 3(1),, 2022, Page(s) 842–853, ISSN 2632-6655
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/bc.237

Other (2)

Oplevelser af energikrise i Danmark: Sluk, skru ned og tro på fremtiden

Author(s): Anders Rhiger Hansen, Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen, Line Valdorff Madsen, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: BUILD Rapport, 2023, ISBN 978-87-563-2124-2
Publisher: Institut for Byggeri, By og Miljø (BUILD), Aalborg Universitet

Lessons learned about new energy consumer roles and smart technologies in relation to inequality and ethics: Research and policy recommendations

Author(s): Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Line Valdorff Madsen, Anders Rhiger Hansen
Published in: 2025, ISBN 978-87-94561-47-1
Publisher: BUILD AAU

Thesis and dissertations (2)

RESISTING OR EMBRACINGTHE SMART HOME?FROM INDUSTRY VISIONS TO EVERYDAY LIFE

Author(s): Line Kryger Aagaard
Published in: Ph.d.-serien for Det Ingeniør- og Naturvidenskabelige Fakultet, 2022, Page(s) 173, ISSN 2446-1636
Publisher: Aalborg Universitet

Environmental Ethics in Everyday Practices: Change, Possibilities and Challenges toward Sustainable Consumption

Author(s): Anne Sofie Møller Askholm
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Aalborg University Open Publishing

Monographic books (1)

Survey questionnaire on households’ use of smart home technology and their time of use of electric appliances

Author(s): Trotta, Gianluca; Hansen, Anders Rhiger; Aagaard, Line Kryger; Gram-Hanssen, Kirsten
Published in: Survey questionnaire on households’ use of smart home technology and their time of use of electric appliances . 1 edn , Institut for Byggeri, By og Miljø (BUILD), Aalborg Universitet , København ., 2023
Publisher: Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University

Conference proceedings (2)

Over- and underconsumption of residential heating: Analyzing occupant impacts on performance gaps between calculated and actual heating demand

Author(s): Anders Rhiger Hansen, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
Published in: NSB 2023: 13th Nordic Symposium on Building Physic, Issue NSB no. 13, held June 2023, 2023
Publisher: Nordic Symposium on Building Physics

Sufficiency, ethics of care and smart home technology

Author(s): Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Toke Haunstrup Bach Christensen, Line Valdorff Madsen
Published in: eceee 2022 Summer Study proceedings. Agents of Change., 2022, Page(s) 65-74, ISBN 978-91-983878-9-3
Publisher: eceee