Although numerous studies have previously dealt with the future of the electricity system, there is a lack of studies that attempt to monitor the development of more complete sets of socio-technical system elements that support alternative futures.
Furthermore, these migrations could only have occurred with the deployment of socio-technical complexes sharing broad characteristics.
The Energy Cultures framework is used alongside the Multi-Level Perspective of socio-technical transitions to examine the broad range of factors driving, shaping, and constraining PV uptake, and the interactions between global and national landscapes, the socio-technical regime within which users are taking action, and the niche opportunities emerging.
This paper examines the role of innovative business models in the transformation of socio-technical systems.
The conclusions stress the existence of socio-technical path-dependency and raise questions for future researches.
When combined, vision building and mapping of socio-technical frames for transitions enable a thorough exploration of analysing socio-technical change in the transport system.
Since every socio-technical system poses a "linked series of socio-technical problems" [28], we propose that socio-technical systems are expectation complexes of services (institutional aspect), to which technical and social systems contribute (structural aspect), to solve from moment-to-moment socio-technical problems (operational aspect).
The paper argues that there are two interrelated problems requiring attention: the institutional embeddedness of socio-technical development processes within specific territorial spaces, and an explicit multi-scalar conception of socio-technical trajectories.
In this paper, we revisit two concepts from institutional theory that enable an explicit identification of socio-technical regimes and more generally a specification of the 'semi-coherence' of socio-technical systems.
This approach extends transport system vision building further to mapping of socio-technical frames for transitions.
