Abstract
This chapter contributes to energy and society research through examining Energy Systems Integration (ESI). ESI designates coordinating the operation and planning of different energy systems: for example, power, heat, transportation, and gas. The promises of this energy integration, in terms of energy reliability, cost effectiveness, and sustainability, are often emphasized. My chapter seeks to develop and nuance the ESI concept by showing how complexity, systems thinking, energy modelling, and disciplinary divides are shaping the field of ESI in ways that are not always noticed. The chapter contributes to these issues by developing a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective on ESI. It adopts a specific starting point: energy integration manifests through that knowledge which is used to understand the integration processes. The empirical material was collected whilst working, with a number of social scientists, amongst representatives from the engineering and physics disciplines in a large research project that seeks to develop more integrated energy systems in the United Kingdom (UK), the National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI).
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