Wind harvest and heat theft as indicators of new ownership structures.

Publications

Academic publications

• Sonnberger, M.; Pfeiffer, M.; Groß, M. (2024): “Who owns the wind? Understanding wind energy production through a property chains perspective”, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486241282544.
• Sonnberger, Marco; Bleicher, Alena; Gross, Matthias (eds.) (2024): Handbuch Umweltsoziologie. Second edition, fully revised and expanded. Wiesbaden, Springer VS.
• Sonnberger, M.; Pfeiffer, M.; Bleicher, A.; & Gross, M. (2024): "Wake effects and temperature plumes: Coping with non-knowledge in the expansion of wind and geothermal energy", In: Social Studies of Science, 0 (0).
• Müller, Andrea; Pfeiffer, Maria (2023): “Gemeinwohl statt Gewinnmaximierung. Kommunale Unternehmen in der sozial-ökologischen Transformation”, In: Politikum 9(3): 41-47.
• Horn, D.; Groß, M.; Pfeiffer, M.; Sonnberger, M. (2022): “How Far Is Far Enough? The Social Constitution of Geothermal Energy through Spacing Regulations.”, In: Sustainability 14 (1): 496, https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010496.
• Gross, Matthias; Sonnberger, Marco (2022): “Making the Most of Failure and Uncertainty: Welcome Surprises and Contingency in Energy Transition Research”. In: Energies 15: 6649
• Otto, Danny; Pfeiffer, Maria; de Brito, Mariana M.; Groß, Matthias (2022): "Fixed Amidst Change: 20 Years of Media Coverage on Carbon Capture and Storage in Germany“, In: Sustainability 14 (12): 7342. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127342.

Outreach, media and podcasts

• Organisation of the public panel discussion (together with TP Z01) “Energiewende für alle? On the role of ownership structures for the transformation of the energy system”, Altes Rathaus, Jena (29.02.2024)
• Public lecture and discussion “Eigentumsverhältnisse und Bürger*innenbeteiligung in der Energiewende“, organised by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. (27.09.23)
• Public lecture and discussion “Wem gehört der Wind? Eigentum und Beteiligung in der Energiewende”, organised by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. (06.04.22)
• Gross, Matthias; Pfeiffer, Maria; Horn, Daniel; Sonnberger, Marco (2022): “Blowing in the wind turbines”, In: blog of the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property”. (published on 17.03.2022)

Lectures

• “Energiedemokratie im deutschen Windenergieausbau? Zur Ungleichverteilung der Entscheidungsmacht in der Energiewende”; TConference of the DGS working group "Sociology of Sustainability" (SONA) and the DGS section Environmental and Sustainability Sociology; University of Stuttgart (06.-07.06.2024)
• “Leaking in or leaking out – Conceptual thoughts on underground leakage”; Leakage – Inaugural Conference of stsing; TU Dresden (19.03.-22.03.2024)
• “Landeigentum als entscheidende Weichenstellung für die Partizipation an der Windenergie”; Workshop “Energy crisis, ownership and services of general interest - The energy system in transition”; University of Jena (29.02.2024)
• “Wem gehört der Wind? Soziologische Betrachtungen zu Eigentumsverhältnissen in der Energiewende”; Colloquium Infrastruktur & Gesellschaft; Universität Stuttgart (13.12.2023)
• “Wake Effects and Temperature Plumes: Coping with Nonknowledge in the Expansion of Wind and Geothermal Energy”; 6th Energy and Society Conference; 6. to 08.09.2023; University of Trento.
• “Wind energy, property regimes and nature-society-technology relations: an empirical exploration of the social perception of wind as an property object“; 6th Energy and Society Conference; 6. to 08.09.2023; University of Trento.
• “Grenzen der Inwertsetzung von Wind und Untergrundwärme als Grenzen des Wissens“; 41. DGS-Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS); 26. to 30.09.2022; University of Bielefeld.
• ”Renewable Energies and Shifting Property Rights: Reckoning Limits of Renewability“; Global Meeting on Law & Society 2022; 13. to 16.07.2022; ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon.
• “Kältefahnen und Abschattungseffekte – Die soziale Konstitution von Erneuerbarkeit und die Grenzen des Wissens”; Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS); 31.03. to 01.04.2022; Europa-University Flensburg.
• “Who Owns the Wind? Wind Theft as a New Challenge for the Sociology of Not Knowing”; 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association; 31.08. to 03.09.2021; Barcelona.
• “Who Owns the Wind? Wind Theft as a New Challenge for the Sociology of Not Knowing”; STS Conference Graz 2021; 03. to 05.05.2021; Technical University Graz.

Events

• Organisation of the panel "Ownership, energy justice and the expansion of renewables" at the STS Conference Graz 2024; TU Graz (06.-04.08.2024)
• Organisation of the workshop (together with TP C04, JRT 03, Z01) "Energy crisis, ownership and services of general interest - the changing energy system"; University of Jena (29.02.-01.03.2024)
• Organisation of the panel “The transition to low-carbon energy systems and new regimes of ownership”; STS Conference Graz 2022; 02. to 04.05.2022; Graz University of Technology.