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"Innovative" Wind Power Planning'

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The paper ventures a view point that insists on the value that could be gained in reversing a perspective on the "planning problem" resulting from a widely shared perspective of procedural efficiency. The way to such a perspective is paved by an as widely shared acception of what is called the "technological potential". The "technological potential" approach has been criticized in the field of energy policy because of the lack of reflexivity in policy making that it favored. At this stage, this potential can be briefly defined as the potential (installed capacity) that we would reach in the absence of social obstacles to the deployment of wind power. It is in some ways the potential of an a-social technology, in the sense of a technology which deployment would leave the social unchanged. No frictions and no social re-composition whatsoever. In short, it is referring to a technologist nirvana. But the problem is that we nowadays know from STS that technologies only exist by being embedded into the social so that there is no technology whatsoever in such a nirvana. Reading the "planning problem" upside down and looking at the innovative dimension of planning processes is a way of flipping the "technological potential" over. It is a way of acknowledging that the social processes at work during the planning process, and more generally during the implementation of wind power policies, are processes that are creating the wind power potential, so that such a potential cannot pre-exist these processes.

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Sociologie

Dates et versions

hal-00455262 , version 1 (09-02-2010)

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Alain Nadaï. "Innovative" Wind Power Planning'. Planning Theory & Practice, 2010, 10 (4), pp.521 -- 547. ⟨10.1080/14649350903441555⟩. ⟨hal-00455262⟩
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