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My research focuses on energy transition, innovation, experimentation, energy justice and sustainability. I've studied household energy practices, transition intermediaries and public engagement.
I am an empirical researcher. Recently, my research has utilised topic modelling, network visualisation, case study design and contingency analysis. Previously, I've applied statistical methods such as factor analysis and cluster analysis. I like to do both qualitative and quantitative research.
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May 2003 - December 2014
April 2001 - April 2003
bremer energie institut, Bremen, Germany
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- PhD Student
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To combat the global problem of unsustainability, absolute reductions in energy use are needed, particularly in the Global North. There is an urgent need for a better understanding of the possible routes for reduction that go beyond abstracted technological solutions or efficiency improvements, as well as a need for a deeper insight into how the po...
There is a wide evidence base on various interventions to change energy behaviours in households, but limited evidence on their long-term effects. It is argued that interventions in individual behaviours are subject to attrition over time following the withdrawal of the intervention. Evaluation of these arguments is difficult since the conditions a...
Energy agendas in national parliaments are crucial when countries seek to develop their energy futures while adhering to international obligations. This article examines how energy agendas emerge and evolve in parliamentary debates using data from Finland over a period of 12 years. By relying on topic modelling, we can show how the key energy agend...
The energy crisis that began in late 2021 and escalated after the war in Ukraine in early 2022 was seen as a disruption accelerating the energy transition in Europe. It forced households to save energy and change their patterns of energy use in a struggle to cut dependency on Russian energy, and in public discussions, various kinds of agency were r...
The energy transitions are in an acceleration phase, where less carbon intensive technologies emerge, but their applicability is uncertain creating a need for real-life experimentation. Cities have become a focal context, where novel constellations of technologies and practices are introduced to reconfigure patterns of production and consumption. O...
What is transdisciplinarity - and what are its methods? How does a living lab work? What is the purpose of citizen science, student-organized teaching and cooperative education? This handbook unpacks key terms and concepts to describe the range of transdisciplinary learning in the context of academic education. Transdisciplinary learning turns out...
Learning from experiments has been seen as important in developing climate and energy solutions, but less attention has been paid to learning from the inevitable failures associated with experiments. Learning from failures is challenging because sharing such experiences is difficult. This study examines a novel intervention developed to support the...
To mitigate climate change, large GHG emission reductions need to be made in several sectors of the consumer society. This calls for policy instruments that guide citizens in adapting their behavior. In Finland, a mid-range climate strategy is set for each governmental period to reach GHG emission reductions. For the renewal of the strategy, the Mi...
Energy transitions are in many respects past the early exploration stages and moving towards the urgently needed mass market take-up. We examine the Finnish energy transition regarding how solutions-heat-pumps, deep retrofits and new district-wide solutions-that have demonstrated economic benefits and reasonable payback times have faced slow uptake...
This article approaches reconfiguring everyday practices from the viewpoint of challenging the social norms and cultural conventions that drive unsustainable consumption patterns. The article discusses results from a living lab intervention, where 37 Finnish households challenged themselves to reduce indoor temperature and the laundry wash cycles i...
This viewpoint exemplifies how advances in computational text analysis allow for analysing novel data for transitions studies. Applying the specific technique of topic modelling to plenary talks related to energy in the Finnish parliament during 2008–2020 illustrates how the approach can be of use to transitions studies. In particular, it aids in e...
Social innovation is increasingly turned to when attempting to address pressing social needs and emerging issues having a social impact because of its inherent promise for societal improvement. The aim of this paper is to explore, demonstrate and confirm the potential role of social innovations in contributing towards low-carbon transitions in the...
Financing the clean energy transition is a growing field of research, yet most research on investments in clean energy has focused on the early stage, and hence on the role of public policy and private equity such as venture capital. We examine how the clean energy sector enters the stage of mainstream financing, using Finland as an empirical case....
Energiamurros, eli siirtymä kohti hiilineutraaleja yhteiskuntia, joissa energiajärjestelmä rakentuu uusiutuviin energianlähteisiin perustuvaan energiantuotantoon, on käynnissä kaikkialla maailmassa. Tässä katsauksessa tarkastelemme energiamurrosta neljän käsitteen kautta: energiakansalaisuuden ja -demokratian, energiahaavoittuvuuden, identiteettipo...
In this article, we examine a change initiative designed to involve households in testing ways to transform two everyday practices ‒ heating and doing laundry. The research design included an examination of the challenges of changing practices either in a setting that fosters collective engagement or with individual households. Two different types...
Tämä tapaustutkimus kuvaa prosessia, jossa aktiivinen asukasyhdistys ja puheenjohtajien klubi Helsingin Merihaasta selvitti mahdollisuudetta toteuttaa Merihaan asuinalueen lämmitys ainakin osittain uusiutuvilla energialähteillä rakentamalla sinne merilämpövoimalan. Tämä case-julkaisu kuvaa hankeideaa, jota on huolellisesti selvitetty ja suunniteltu...
Practice-based interventions have recently emerged as one way to question established practices and experiment with new, less energy-intensive ones within households. Yet, how practice-based interventions contribute to energy transitions on a larger scale still awaits to answer. The challenge is that practices are embedded in local conditions and c...
Kokeiluista oppiminen nähdään tärkeäksi ilmasto- ja energiaratkaisuja kehitettäessä, mutta vähemmän huomiota on saanut kokeiluihin väistämättä liittyvistä epäonnistumisista oppiminen. Epäonnistumisista oppiminen on kuitenkin haasteellista, sillä epäonnistumisten jakaminen on vaikeaa. Tämä artikkeli tarkastelee interventiota, joka on kehitetty uusiu...
This report reflects upon the concept of social innovation and the way it is used in the energy sector. It does so by bringing together theoretical investigations and empirical knowledge. We aim to clarify the concept of social innovation in the energy sector by reviewing the literature and reflecting over a number of social innovation projects in...
Experimentation with novel technologies mobilises resources and constructs expectations for systemic transition, yet there is limited research that examines large numbers of energy experiments. Our approach explores an idea of a patchwork of niches and contributes to transitions literature by looking beyond individual experiments. The analysis in t...
Making the future more sustainable is arguably a challenging task if not a ‘wicked’ problem. Not only does sustainability incorporate social, environmental, economic and cultural elements, but there is also the question about on whose terms and in whose interests sustainability should be targeted. To meet these aims, we reviewed how European citize...
This study focuses on how a hybrid actor challenges dominant expectations about markets and rules by creating a novel business model, Farm Power, that links locally produced small-scale renewable energy directly with energy end-users. We explore the potential of Farm Power to influence the energy transition by studying how the business model is int...
This article examines energy related experiments suggested and outlined in a co-creative Energy Transition Arena in Finland in 2017 with participating experts from various spheres of society. A transition arena is a process for engaging stakeholders in systemic transitions, and experiments are an important measure for enhancing transition and mecha...
Sociotechnical transitions are complex processes that imply far-reaching technological, institutional and cultural changes. Transition intermediaries have emerged as potentially powerful actors and entities to speed up transitions. As much previous literature on intermediaries in transitions has focused on emergence, in this special issue, we focus...
Abstract Co-creation principles have become prominent in the scientific disciplines that aim to respond to global sustainability challenges especially in the global south. This paper analyses a co-creation pilot of global change research in the novel context of a Nordic country, Finland. The pilot was organised to learn how to create a future agend...
Social innovation is concerned with social mobilization and impact, and is increasingly seen as an option to address sustainability challenges. Nevertheless, the concept of social innovation is quite open in character and requires empirical accommodation to establish how it differs from other types of innovation in this setting. This article contri...
Co-production of knowledge with international publics can reveal novel insights into sustainability concerns across countries. However, generalisable studies on how place-specificity corresponds to sustainability transition are lacking, although there is an emerging body of literature on the geography of sustainability transition. This article cont...
In Finland, energy policy is in transition towards integrating energy projects in broader sustainability, liveability and innovation contexts. While energy saving has been pursued for decades, it is now part of a broader tendency in urban planning to promote sustainable lifestyles. Transition manifests in local actors’ redistribution of power, chal...
While citizen involvement has become an increasingly accepted and popular procedure in both the theory and practice of responsible research and innovation (RRI), there remains a curious dilemma in that the accomplishment of involvement does not necessarily ensure sought responsibility towards citizens. Instead, experts may easily take over the proc...
Sustainability transitions require new policy pathways that significantly reduce the environmental impacts caused by, for example, energy production, mobility and food production. Transition management (TM) is one of the approaches aiming at the creation of new ways to govern transitions. It uses transitions arenas (TA) as a key process and platfor...
In recent years, citizen involvement has been increasingly recognised as a source of complementary insights to expert-based foresight. This article analyses citizen visions on desirable and sustainable futures gathered in three recent European involvement projects and reviews how the methodology of topic modelling can be applied to identify commona...
This article presents a case study on a demand response (DR) pilot project dealing with the application of DR in a grocery store with the utilization of refrigeration equipment as energy storage and photovoltaics (PV) as an energy source. DR has recently gained increased interest due to the growing penetration of intermittent renewable energy requi...
The energy sector needs to transform towards sustainability. The multi-level perspective on sociotechnical transitions is embracing an enactment perspective, which focuses on the agency of various actors in shifting transitions pathways but has yet to study local urban experiments from such an enactment perspective. Our empirical research examines...
The behaviour of incumbent energy companies is critical for a transition to a sustainable energy system. We address the recent call for closer conceptualisation of power and agency within transition studies by combining concepts of strategic action fields (Fligstein and McAdam, 2012) and the flat-ontology perspective of arenas of development (Jørge...
Climate targets call for novel policy measures to facilitate widespread adoption of low-carbon solutions and innovations. The literature on socio-technical systems argues that experimentation has a prominent role in enabling sustainability transition. Experiments represent ways of testing new ideas and methods across a wide range of policy fields....
The field of public participation is developing fast, with phenomena such as citizen science and crowdsourcing extending the resource base of research, stimulating innovation and making science more accessible to the general population. Promoting public participation means giving more weight to citizens and civil society actors in the definition of...
Reducing residential energy use and carbon dioxide emissions is a policy concern across Europe. One of the approaches to address this problem, real-world laboratories (RwLs), has recently gained prominence as a means to generate both sustainability change and social knowledge. Yet RwLs are context-bound, and transferability is an issue for scaling...
Energy markets are in a state of considerable transformation. As a result of new smart energy technologies, novel services can now be offered to customers. The adoption of innovations is often conceptualized in terms of technology diffusion, the success or failure of the new technology depending on how it is able to move across a market. It is take...
This document introduces and describes initial designs for ENERGISE Living Labs by drawing on practice-based approaches in living labs, as well as previous experience on initiatives that aim to change energy-related household practices. The document also briefly discusses the prerequisites that the design poses for potential target groups and the s...
Experimentation is critical for the deployment of low-carbon technologies. New solutions need to be selected and adapted to their contexts of use, and users need to learn new skills. Society as a whole needs to create new modes of production, consumption and governance. We investigated how local pilot projects, demonstrations and trials of low-carb...
Public engagement (PE) has become an important theme of research and innovation (R&I) activity in several countries. In Europe, which is the main focus of this paper, the European Commission – by setting PE as a key thematic element of its policy for responsible research and innovation (RRI) –has promoted fundamental changes in the ways that civil...
Local climate experimentation is a topical issue as cities and rural municipalities are increasingly engaging in various local energy experiments in order to act against climate change. There are high expectations toward experimentation among the policy makers, funders and local actors. Intermediary organisations have an important role as facilitat...
The government of the Prime Minister Sipilä aims to make Finland an experiment-friendly society. One of the areas where expectations toward experiments are high is climate change mitigation in the built environment. Municipalities are increasingly taking the initiative in leading on climate action (e.g. renewable energy, sustainable urban infrastru...
Climate change set challenges for conventional policy making. In this context, governance experiments may provide opportunities to seek innovative policy solutions. This article examines governance experiments in climate action in terms of their regional reach and factors that are critical in the realization of the experiments. A particular focus i...
This review focuses on renewable energy technology deployment in residential buildings, which is part of current targets to develop net-zero-carbon buildings in Europe and to promote the deployment of renewable energy. We focus on the adoption of four technologies: heat pumps, solar photovoltaics, solar thermal systems for domestic hot water and sp...
Public Engagement Innovations for Horizon 2020, Policy Brief Issue 2: https://pe2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Policy-brief-2-20161111.pdf
https://pe2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/D3-2_160916_FINAL-09-19-16-17-59.pdf
The use of natural resources has significant impacts on European economy as well as quality of life of its citizens while also having long-term effects on the global scale. The uptake of innovations and technologies put increasing pressure on the use of resources. This policy brief addresses the main objectives of the 2020 strategy by putting an em...
The notion that we can learn from experiments is topical in current discussions on societal transitions for combating climate change. Within a socio-technical transitions approach, strategic niche management (SNM) conceives of local experiments within protected spaces as important initiators of learning and empowerment of new technologies. Transiti...
https://pe2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Innovative-Public-Engagement-FINAL-1.pdf
This article assesses the possibilities of using consumer innovation in the electricity sector, which is slow-moving, yet faced with huge challenges and opportunities to become “smart” and “low carbon.” We study the benefits of engaging innovative consumers (“lead users”) in product, service, and business innovation in terms of (a) the capacity of...
Luonnonvarojen hallinnassa ollaan siirtymässä yhä haastavampaan vaiheeseen niin Suomessa kuin muuallakin. Ilmastonmuutoksen entistä suurempi todennäköisyys ja sen aiheuttamien muutosten syvyys ja laaja-alaisuus tulevat vaikuttamaan koko suomalaiseen yhteiskuntaan. Ilmastonmuutos ja siirtyminen biotalouteen vaativat luonnonvarapolitiikan ja -hallinn...
PE2020 policy brief, Issue 1. www.pe2020.eu.
Engaging consumers and the public (i.e. citizens) has become a widely accepted procedure when developing and adopting new services, technologies and policies. In the energy domain, consumers and citizens have in recent years been engaged to participate in the development of smart grids, services and meters as well as low-carbon energy services such...
This article studies the structure of the energy efficiency service markets in Finland. The research focuses on studying who are the most pioneering users of energy efficiency services. In a previous paper, consumer's interest in different types of innovative energy efficiency services was identified. Psychographic characteristics were found that d...
Energy companies are in dire need of new business models that bring revenues from energy services rather than from increasing energy use. Smart meters and grids offer new opportunities for such services. However, there is a lack of research on what the market potential of such services could be in end-user markets. Certain innovative consumers are...
Enerdata Enerdata SEVEn SEVEn, The Energy Efficiency Center Policies to enforce the transition to nZEB: Synthesis report and policy recommendations. 3 The ENTRANZE project The objective of the ENTRANZE project is to actively support policy making by providing the required data, analysis and guidelines to achieve a fast and strong penetration of nZE...
Enerdata Enerdata SEVEn SEVEn, The Energy Efficiency Center Policies to enforce the transition to nZEB: Synthesis report and policy recommendations. 3 The ENTRANZE project The objective of the ENTRANZE project is to actively support policy making by providing the required data, analysis and guidelines to achieve a fast and strong penetration of nZE...
The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) and the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) require ambitious policies for existing buildings. One important aspect of policy design is to understand the decision making of building owners and investors. Governments can support such decisions with grants, but public funds can only cover part of the...
Customer needs considering new smart grid technologies do not pre-exist but emerge in the markets. This paper identifies and engages lead users in service development based on possibilities created by smart grids. We explore how small-scale customers can become active players in electricity markets and create benefit through smart grid applications...
Investments into the electricity distribution network are needed to support competition and to guarantee the security of supply as well as a good quality of electricity. The aim of this paper is to study the ex post regulatory system in Finland in context of investment incentives. The second objective is to study how the investments in the sector h...
The Nordic countries have long experience of a liberalized electricity sector. The monopoly operations—namely, distribution and transmission of electric energy—are regulated in an attempt to prevent monopoly rents and to induce improvements in efficiency. This paper presents the main results of an empirical study on network pricing in Finland, Norw...
The Nordic countries have long experience of a liberalized electricity sector. The monopoly operations—namely, distribution and transmission of electric energy—are regulated in an attempt to prevent monopoly rents and to induce improvements in efficiency. This paper presents the main results of an empirical study on network pricing in Finland, Norw...
The Nordic countries already have a long experience in the liberalisation of the electricity sector. In each country there is a specific regulatory authority that supervises the monopoly part of the sector, the distribution and transmission of electric energy. The regulatory systems usually address the issue of preventing monopoly rent and often in...
Oldenburg, University, Diss., 2003 (Nicht für den Austausch).
Oldenburg, University, Diss., 2003. Computerdatei im Fernzugriff.
