Making things public: the challenges of materiality for renewable energy transitions

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Sujatha Raman, Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham.

The need to develop renewable energy (RE) options has been widely highlighted in light of climate change. But the fact that material resources are necessary to produce RE technologies is often ignored in these discussions. Analysing a range of sources where this issue is being made more visible, Sujatha asks what follows if we take the material basis of renewable energy seriously and how the framework of energy justice might help us in this regard.