Abstract
Social innovations, while including material power resources such as money, technologies and installations, consider non-material power resources, such as decision-making processes, ownership structures, or narrative as equally important for system design and change. The community energy literature is increasingly referencing social innovations to recognize the agency of civil society or grassroots actors (‘grassroots innovations’). Avelino and colleagues (2015) connect the study of social innovations to frames of sustainability transitions and community engagement, studying social innovations not as “a dimension of technological innovation [but] an object of innovation in itself”.
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