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PARTICIPATORY ENERGY TRANSITIONS AS

BOUNDARY OBJECTS: THE CASE OF CHILE’S
“ENERGÍA 2050”
Frontiers in Energy Research, vol. 6, article 134
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Catalina Amigo*, Marco Billi, Patricio Espinosa, Anahí Urquiza

*catalina.amigo@ug.uchile.cl
Study Object 2

Energetic
‘Future(s)’

Governance

Participatory Energy Ministry, 2015

construction
Energy Transition 3

• Prior focus on international

efforts related to energy
development

• Wicked and messy.

• Directionality  emergent,
cannot be driven.

• Participation: an
opportunity to line up
different expectations.
What does participation means? 4

Preferences Preferences
representation transformation
Boundary Objects 5

BOs are products:

• Plastic enough to
adapt to local needs
and restrictions

• Yet solid enough to

create a common
identity in parties
using it.
 Research Questions 6

Why do energy
transitions initiatives To manage
make an effort to expectations of
construct different groups,
“participatory futures” actors and systems
for the energy involved in it
system?

Participatory
energy How can you see the Reflexive dialogue to
participation in the co-construct a
transitions Chilean experience? boundary object.

What is the role in

Contextual indirect
connection with
coordination of the
reaching
transition
sustainability?
 Methodology 7

Exploratory case study to narrow

down hypothesis

Primary Secondary Qualitative

sources Sources Analysis

7 interviews to E2050 official documents Possibility conditions,

Consultative Committee (minutes, reports, work participation forms,
members and Technical documents, evaluations, performances.
consultors from different others)
societal domains.
1. The context of participation 8

Growing pressures and demands!

 9
1. The context of participation
2. Form of participation 10
2. Form of participation 11
3. Performances of participation 12
3. Performances of participation 13
Conclusions: between Governance and
Democracy

• As a strategy for
Operative enhancing the
function governability of
the transition

PARTICIPATORY
ENERGY
TRANSITIONS
• As a pathway to
Normative
improve its
function
democratic tenure
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Catalina Amigo J.
catalina.amigo@ug.uchile.cl