{"id":289,"date":"2022-01-05T13:58:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T13:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/energyflexibilitygallery\/?page_id=289"},"modified":"2022-01-06T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:38:40","slug":"more-on-the-historical-making-of-energy-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/energyflexibilitygallery\/more-on-the-historical-making-of-energy-flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the historical making of energy flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"289\" class=\"elementor elementor-289\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-55b687a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"55b687a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1aafec6\" data-id=\"1aafec6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9cb13ad elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"9cb13ad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p>Here you can find a list of further reading on the topic of the historical making of energy demand and supply. All publications listed are open-access.\u00a0Our many thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/profile\/roger-fouquet\/\">Roger Fouquet<\/a> for compiling this list.<\/p>\n<p>If you have additional sources to contribute, please contact: Carolynne Lord (c.lord@lancaster.ac.uk).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e8d4344 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"e8d4344\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d557367 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"d557367\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Fernihough, A. &amp; O&#8217;Rouke, K. (2021) <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ej\/article\/131\/635\/1135\/5955447\">&#8216;Coal and the Industrial Revolution&#8217;<\/a>, <em>The Economic Journal,\u00a0<\/em>131(635): 1135-1149.<br \/>\nThis paper shows the critical role coal played in regional economic development, especially in Britain, with an emphasis on the importance of the location of energy resources and transport costs in determining where industries formed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a2c8da5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"a2c8da5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Baumeister, C. &amp; Kilian, L. (2016) <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aeaweb.org\/doi\/pdfplus\/10.1257\/jep.30.1.139\">&#8216;Forty Years of Oil Price Fluctuations: Why the Price of Oil May Still Surprise Us&#8217;<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Journal of Economic Perspectives<\/em>, 30(1): 139-160.<br \/>\nThis piece provides an overview of the causes of major oil price fluctuations between 1973 and 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-335838e elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"335838e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Fouquet, R. (2014) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/full\/10.1093\/reep\/reu002\">&#8216;Long-Run Demand for Energy Services: Income and Price Elasticities over Two Hundred Years&#8217;<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Review of Environmental Economics and Policy<\/em>, 8(2): 187-207.<br \/>\nThis article shows how energy consumption is driven by the demand for energy services (such as heating and cooling, power, transport, lighting, computing) and this demand varies greatly at different phases of economic development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74be193 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"74be193\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Fouquet, R. (2018) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaee.org\/en\/publications\/ejarticle.aspx?id=3082\">&#8216;Consumer Surplus from Energy Transitions&#8217;<\/a>,\u00a0<em>The Energy Journal<\/em>, 39(3): 167-188.<br \/>\nThis article measures the net benefits to consumers from energy technologies and transitions, indicating how lives were especially transformed by the introduction of the railways and gas lighting in the nineteenth century.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35232be elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"35232be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Fouquet, R. &amp; Pearson, P. (2006) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de\/fileadmin\/a70100710\/Medieninformationen\/2007\/Pearson_and_Fouquet_7_Centuries_Light_En_Jnl_2006v27-01-a07.pdf\">&#8216;Seven Centuries of Energy Services: The Price and Use of Lighting in the United Kingdom (1300-2000)&#8217;<\/a>,\u00a0<em>The Energy Journal<\/em>, 27(1): 139-177.<br \/>\nThis piece charts the dramatic reductions in the cost of lighting associated with energy efficiency improvements ad energy transitions &#8211; from tallow candles to coal gas to electricity &#8211; and the even more spectacular rises in the use of lighting over seven hundred years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1423955 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"1423955\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Gales, B., Kander, A., Malanima, P. &amp; Rubio, M. (2007) <a href=\"https:\/\/lucris.lub.lu.se\/ws\/portalfiles\/portal\/2970903\/1729192.pdf\">&#8216;North vs South: Energy Transition and Energy Intensity in Europe Over 200 Years&#8217;<\/a>,\u00a0<em>European Review of Economic History<\/em>, 11(2): 219-253.<br \/>\nThis presents an analysis of aggregate historical energy transitions in four European economies, incorporating the biomass (and often non-commercial) energy sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1159403 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"1159403\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Geels, F. (2005) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/polopoly_fs\/1.713979.1550158690!\/SAMS%20workshop%20f%C3%B6rdjupningsmaterial.pdf\">&#8216;The Dynamics of Transitions in Socio-Technical Systems: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Transition Pathway from Horse-Drawn Carriages to Automobiles (1860-1930)&#8217;<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Technology Analysis &amp; Strategic Management<\/em>,\u00a017(4): 445-476.<br \/>\nThis piece offers an alternative perspective on energy transitions, indicating that they occur as a result of transformations on a number of different levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92e7fc4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"92e7fc4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Henriques, S. &amp; Warde, P. (2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s10113-017-1166-9.pdf\">&#8216;Fuelling the English Breakfast: Hidden Energy Flows in the Anglo-Danish Trade 1870-1913&#8217;<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Regional Environmental Change<\/em>, 18: 965-977.<br \/>\nThis article charts the flows of energy and hidden energy embodied in the bilateral trade between the UK and Denmark showing the transformations that occurred in Danish agriculture to meet the growing demand for breakfast foods in the UK required significant quantities of feed and coal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57c3753 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"57c3753\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Pearson, P. &amp; Foxon, T. (2012) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0301421512006568\">&#8216;A Low Carbon Industrial Revolution? Insights and Challenges from Past Technological and Economic Transformations&#8217;<\/a>, <em>Energy Policy<\/em>, 50: 117-127.<br \/>\nThis paper examines the challenges facing a low carbon transition by drawing on insights from the first British Industrial Revolution and concluding that while achieving a low carbon transition may require societal changes on a scale comparable with those of previous industrial revolutions, this transitions does not yet resemble previous industrial revolutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0e229e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"0e229e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Turnball, T. (2021) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/07341512.2021.1891394\">&#8216;Energy, History, and the Humanities: Against a New Determinism&#8217;<\/a>,\u00a0<em>History &amp; Technology<\/em>, 37(2): 247-292.<br \/>\nThis piece contrasts early thinkers in the literature on energy history, showing the influence of broader factors driving arguments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fdde1d elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"7fdde1d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Wright, G. (1990) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/4901053_The_Origins_of_American_Industrial_Success_1879-1940\">&#8216;The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940&#8217;<\/a>,\u00a0<em>American Economic Review,\u00a0<\/em>80(4): 651-668.<br \/>\nThis paper explains the role of natural resources, particularly coal and oil, and government policies that encouraged the extraction of these resources, played in driving and influencing US economic development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-242128c elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"242128c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Wrigley, E. (2013) <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1098\/rsta.2011.0568\">&#8216;Energy and the Industrial Revolution&#8217;<\/a>, <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A<\/em>, 371: 20110568.<br \/>\nThis piece reviews how changes in the availability of energy sources were critical to the Industrial Revolution, as energy usage increased massively with the use of fossil fuels but also implies limits to economic development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7aaba39 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-text\" data-id=\"7aaba39\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>van de Ven, D. &amp; Fouquet, R. 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