Tanja Winther

• Winther, Tanja (2021). Searching for variation and complexity. In Podjed, Dan; Gorup, Meta; Borecky, Pavel & Guerrón Montero, Carla (Ed.), Why the world needs anthropologists. Routledge. ISSN 9781350147133. p. 85–98.
• Jackson Inderberg, Tor Håkon; Sæle, Hanne; Westskog, Hege & Winther, Tanja (2020). The dynamics of solar prosuming: Exploring interconnections between actor groups in Norway. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 70, p. 1–11. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101816. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Solar prosuming is an emerging phenomenon in which many actor groups are involved in shaping new solutions. Here we study national policymakers, relevant stakeholders such as grid companies, and the prosumers themselves – and the interconnections between them – to provide a contextualised exploration of positions, perceptions and interconnections that influence prosuming activities. Our 65 in-depth interviews in Norway, 33 of which with pioneering prosumers show that this group is not attracted to prosuming primarily for financial reasons, but for pursuing particular identities. However, our results also indicate that if prosuming were to become more widespread, economic considerations would be central. Further, the interplay among actor groups, mediated through current regulations and technologies, and the related perceptions, affect the uptake and organisation of solar prosuming activities. Third-party market actors such as the solar and building industry play important roles, as do grid companies and municipalities that are expected to facilitate prosuming activities. Given the current policy framework in Norway, we conclude that if increasing prosuming activities becomes a desired political goal, this will require stronger financial incentives for individual prosumers, and a deeper understanding of the interplay among actors across arenas and sectors.

• Winther, Tanja; Ulsrud, Kirsten; Matinga, Margaret; Govindan, Mini; Gill, Bigsna & Saini, Anjali [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2020). In the light of what we cannot see: Exploring the interconnections between gender and electricity access. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 60(101334). doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2019.101334. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this paper we quantify gendered decision-making patterns regarding electricity access, light and appliances in selected rural contexts in Mahadevsthan (Nepal), Homa Bay (Kenya) and Chhattisgarh (India). In the literature, decision-making in electricity has primarily been studied through case studies and qualitative methods. By quantifying some of the gendered patterns in this field, we first seek to document and compare the situation in selected contexts and then to refine the understanding of the nexus between gender and electricity access. The research design was informed by the team's previous qualitative work, and we present results from a household survey conducted in 2016 and 2017. We anchor the analysis in a micro-political approach to energy, and we draw on empowerment and domestication frameworks for analyzing tenets of energy justice. The findings show that women generally had less power than men to make decisions about electricity and appliances and that women's lack of rights in electricity was mirrored in their subordinated position in the socio-material contexts. Comparing groups of women, women in Mahadevsthan, including those who were living without a man in the household, were most likely to have electricity access and acquire appliances of their choosing. Widows in Homa Bay were the least likely to have electricity access. By drawing on the wider literature, we discuss the results in terms of how women's agency and access to electricity and appliances of their choosing in the Global South may be improved.

• Matinga, Margaret N.; Gill, Bigsna & Winther, Tanja (2019). Rice Cookers, Social Media, and Unruly Women: Disentangling Electricity's Gendered Implications in Rural Nepal . Frontiers in Energy Research. ISSN 2296-598X. 6(140). doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2018.00140. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Rice cookers, social media, and television sets are commonly used in rural Nepal. In this paper we explore how gender norms condition the uptake of these artefacts, and the gendered implications of their uses. We draw on material from a household survey, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews, collected in 2017 in Dhading and Tanahun districts in rural Nepal. The results show that each of the three artefacts initiate distinct, gendered dynamics in terms of uptake, uses and effects. Women’s use of electric rice cookers aligns with their gendered identity as cooks, helping them improve their gendered work and do not trigger resistance from men. In contrast, the use of mobile phones, social media and television, prompt complex gender outcomes, resistances, and negotiations. Young people use social media to initiate self-negotiated marriages, shunning arranged marriages thus increasing their agency. It was reported that these self-negotiated marriages tend to be earlier (ages 12-14) than before, as young girls drop out of school to marry their chosen partners, thus threatening their empowerment. Access to television and internet has increased awareness about family planning methods, but persistent gender hierarchies hinder women from freely deciding on and accessing these methods. Women and youth pursuing new opportunities that challenge gender norms are sometimes labelled as unfaithful and unruly by others in the villages. The paper highlights the need to understand subversive responses to social and cultural changes mediated by electricity so that policy and practice can support the desired social transformations.

• Standal, Karina; Winther, Tanja & Danielsen, Katrine (2018). Energy Politics and Gender. In Hancock, Kathleen & Allison, Juliann (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190861360. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190861360.013.6. Full text in Research Archive
• Westskog, Hege; Winther, Tanja & Aasen, Marianne (2018). The creation of an ecovillage: Handling identities in a Norwegian sustainable valley. Sustainability. ISSN 2071-1050. 10(6). doi: 10.3390/su10062074. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper presents a qualitative study of Hurdal Ecovillage in Norway. It explores how the actors involved have interacted over time and contributed to shaping the ecovillage. The study demonstrates that the ecovillage as a concept is continuously refined both internally on an individual level and in the village, and in mainstream society. At stake is the question of ecovillage identity and what this should entail. The interviewed ecovillagers report two main motives for deciding to move to the village. One is to become part of the ecovillage community, while the other is grounded in the ecovillage as a means to achieve sustainability rather than as a goal in itself. Hurdal Ecovillage has undergone two distinct development phases. First, the members jointly owned the land, built their own houses, and attempted to be self-sufficient. The ecovillage was largely isolated from the local community. In the second phase, professional actors took over responsibility for developing the village, offering ready-made houses to be owned by individual families. This shift resulted in the ecovillage appearing more like conventional settlements. Today’s ecovillagers express a wish to constitute an attractive, sustainable alternative to conventional living, but to do so they have to maintain a distance between themselves and the wider community.

• Winther, Tanja; Westskog, Hege & Sæle, Hanne (2018). Like having an electric car on the roof: Domesticating PV solar panels in Norway. Energy for Sustainable Development. ISSN 0973-0826. 47, p. 84–93. doi: 10.1016/j.esd.2018.09.006. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Worldwide, the number of electricity end-users who produce electricity and feed it to the grid, denoted ‘prosumers’, is increasing. Following innovations in policy, technology (e.g. inverters, smart meters), tariffing and subsidy schemes, solar panels (PV – photovoltaic) connected to the grid have entered the electricity systems in many countries such as the UK and Germany. Norway is an exceptional case in several ways. Because electricity production is mainly based on hydropower, PV does not form a significant part of the government’s vision of the country’s future electricity mix. As a result, governance is limited to prosumer regulations that make it possible to become prosumers in a relatively simple way, but do not actively encourage growth in this market, which is mainly demand driven and only slowly increasing. Norway also has a rapid uptake of electric vehicles at present, potentially influencing the way electricity is managed by households. In this context of pioneering prosumer activities in Norway, this study draws on material from 29 in-depth interviews with prosumers located across the country. The objective is to examine people’s rationales for investing in solar power and how they use this technology to signal identity. We draw on consumption and domestication theory as well as practice-oriented approaches to energy use. The results show that at present there are three groups of prosumers in Norway who have followed distinct domestication paths. We denote the groups as individual prosumers (who have taken the initiative to install solar PV), ‘smart house' dwellers and ecovillagers, respectively. All three share an emphasis on self-consumption in terms of maximising electricity use in periods with sunshine. They also make use of solar technology to signal identity (conversion). However, the groups’ styles of prosuming differ. In terms of incorporating the technology in daily life, the individual prosumers closely follow their own production and engage more actively with the monitoring equipment than the two other groups. As to their underlying values and motivations for prosuming, the individual prosumers, who are largely men, emphasise their interest in testing the new technology. The smart house dwellers associate their type of housing with a high level of comfort and consider the PV to signal a modern way of living. The ecovillagers are primarily concerned with environmentally friendly living. The materiality and physical position of the solar panels on the roofs partly help to create social significance, but only because the dwellers and their observers associate the object with particular values. Each of our three groups draws a particular meaning from PV that serves to strengthen their desired identity. The results indicate that PV may have the potential to spread to a variety of energy customer groups in Norway. However, the issue of diffusion is uncertain, partly because the studied groups are pioneers and do not necessarily represent a general segment of the population. Also, the studied prosumers tend to downplay economic profitability as a rationale for obtaining PV, and Norwegian authorities do not actively promote PV through support schemes.

• Winther, Tanja & Bell, Sandra (2018). Domesticating In Home Displays in selected British and Norwegian households. Science & Technology Studies. ISSN 2243-4690. 31(2), p. 19–38. doi: 10.23987/sts.56791. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The paper uses qualitative data from Norway and the United Kingdom to understand the New technology of In Home Display monitors as a material object loaded with meaning and norms that may affect social practices and relations. The displays are designed to encourage householders to reduce electricity consumption. In contrast to technologies associated with ‘smart meters’, the monitors under study cannot be used for controlling or automatising various types of electricity consumption, but these devises nonetheless often form part of ‘smart grid solutions’. A large part of the research in this area has attempted to quantify the impact of displays, and qualitative research focusing on the users has also mainly sought to explain why - or why not – the introduction of displays has resulted in reduced household consumption. This paper follows a more open approach to the introduction and impact of displays by paying attention to the existing routines and social practices into which the display enters and potentially becomes integrated and domesticated. We examine to what extent ideas and norms inscribed in the display continue to have a bearing on the household moral economy and internal dynamics as the objects are negotiated and taken in use in British and Norwegian homes. Drawing on earlier studies that have sought to combine practice and domestication theory for understanding displays, the study’s novelty lies in its focus on the materiality of displays and social implications thereof, and its analysis of the social status of this object in two diff erent contexts.

• Winther, Tanja; Ulsrud, Kirsten & Saini, Anjali (2018). Solar powered electricity access: Implications for women’s empowerment in rural Kenya. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 44, p. 61–74. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.017. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper examines the gendered implications of various types of electricity access in rural Kenya spanning from the central grid to solar-based systems such as community projects, village scale supply and private solar home systems (SHS). Drawing on material collected in Homa Bay and Kitui counties in 2016, the paper examines the gendered setup, organisation and effects of solarpowered electricity access as compared with the central grid. The paper employs a framework for analysing women’s empowerment through electrification, which draws on Kabeer, Friedman as well as anthropology, socio-technical system theory and practice theory. The results show that people tend to cherish solar-based solutions whereas the grid is perceived to be costly, unreliable and unavailable. As to the gendered organisation of supply, men dominate within the grid, mini-grids and private suppliers, leaving an important potential for women’s empowerment untapped. Two community projects included women’s ‘hands-on’ participation and spurred local discourses about women’s capabilities. Access is also gendered on the user side. Because men tend to own the houses, have a higher income and a moral right to make major decisions, fixed connections and high subscription fees provide women with less agency than what is the case in decentralised systems of supply.

• Ulsrud, Kirsten; Rohracher, Harald; Winther, Tanja; Muchunku, Charles & Palit, Debajit (2018). Pathways to electricity for all: What makes village-scale solar power successful? Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 44, p. 32–40. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.027. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article presents new empirical research on what it takes to provide enduring access to affordable, reliable and useful electricity services for all. We analyze and synthesize the long-term experiences with three different systems for village-scale solar power supply in India, Senegal and Kenya. Since this scale of electricity provision forms part of village infrastructure, it requires particular types of knowledge, policies and support mechanisms. This research therefore investigates how village-scale solar systems can be designed, implemented, sustained and replicated in ways that make them accessible and useful for the community members. Drawing on a sociotechnical and practice-oriented approach, we show that the electricity system’s degree of adaptedness to its social context affects many important qualities of the system such as the relevance of the available electricity services for the people, the system’s operational and economic sustainability and the potential for replication. Achieving such adaptation notably requires a flexible approach on the part of implementers, funders and local actors before, during and after implementation. We also show the need for institutionalization of decentralized electricity provision, discuss the current ambiguities in policies, regulations and funding mechanisms for villagescale solar power, and provide recommendations to policy makers and donors.

• Winther, Tanja; Matinga, Margaret N.; Ulsrud, Kirsten & Standal, Karina (2017). Women’s empowerment through electricity access: scoping study and proposal for a framework of analysis. Journal of Development Effectiveness. ISSN 1943-9342. 9(3), p. 389–417. doi: 10.1080/19439342.2017.1343368. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article reviews the empirical literature on women’s empowerment through electricity access and the methodologies that have been used. Statistical studies have looked at areas with access to the grid and measured the impact on welfare indicators and employment. Qualitatively oriented studies have looked at various types of supply and studied how electricity access in a given context has influenced women and men in everyday life, sometimes focusing on the role of the design of the systems of supply and the process of electrification. The overall results show that electricity access benefits the welfare of women as well as men, but that the impact on gender relations remains largely unclear. With the ambition to better understand the gendered nature – and impacts – of various types of electricity access, we develop a framework for analysing women’s empowerment through electricity and subsequently illustrate its applications by drawing on the reviewed empirical literature.

• Winther, Tanja & Gurigard, Kjell (2017). Energy performance contracting (EPC): a suitable mechanism for achieving energy savings in housing cooperatives? Results from a Norwegian pilot project. Energy Efficiency. ISSN 1570-646X. 10(3), p. 577–596. doi: 10.1007/s12053-016-9477-0. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The barriers to energy savings in institutions and private homes are well known and include people’s lack of interest, awareness, knowledge and human and financial capacity. Experiences made in several countries show that EPC—energy performance contracting—may be used for overcoming many of these barriers. A typical EPC project is delivered by an energy service company (ESCO) and the contract is accompanied with a guarantee for energy savings. EPC is increasingly taken in use in the professional market (firms and the public sector), but is less common in the residential sector market. It has been suggested that there are several barriers for using EPC in the domestic sector such as the uncertainty involved in estimating forthcoming reductions in private consumption. In this paper, we present the results from a pilot project on the use of EPC in a housing cooperative in Oslo. The project was initiated and observed by the researchers. The research followed a transdisciplinary methodology in that it was conducted by both researcher and practitioner (co-authors) in close collaboration with members of the housing cooperative and the ESCOs, who also contributed to the interpretation of results. We document the process in terms of why the Board decided to join the EPC pilot, the call for offers from ESCOs who guaranteed that purchased annual energy would be reduced by one third, the responses to and negotiations of the offer from the ESCO who became contracted in the initial phase and up to the moment when the General Assembly finally decided to not invest in the proposed energy saving measures. We find that the residents not only had limited interest in energy savings but also lacked confidence in the EPC process. This contributed to the outcome. We discuss the findings in relation to the barriers to using EPC among housing cooperatives. We highlight the need for more knowledge about the client side for understanding how barriers may be overcome. Three specific recommendations for how EPC may successfully be employed among housing cooperatives are suggested as follows: (i) include refurbishment and not only energy savings in the EPC, (ii) identify the residents’ needs in an early phase and (iii) communicate the EPC principle to the residents throughout the process.

• Standal, Karina & Winther, Tanja (2016). Empowerment Through Energy? Impact of Electricity on Care Work Practices and Gender Relations. Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. 43(1), p. 27–45. doi: 10.1080/08039410.2015.1134642. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Electricity provides a range of desirable services such as the electric light and the use of mobile phones and is regarded as a conditional factor for economic growth. Gender equality and women's empowerment are also promoted as a key to development on the international agenda. However, relatively little is known about how the advent of electricity in new contexts affects gender relations. The present analysis of electricity's impact on gender relations engages with the concepts of care work and empowerment. Based on two ethnographic case studies in rural communities in Uttar Pradesh, India, and Bamiyan, Afghanistan, we examine how and to what extent the introduction of electricity affected women's care work practices and empowerment – and potentially transformed gender relations. We also draw on our own empirical material from other parts of India (West Bengal and Jharkhand). We find that electricity affected everyday life in terms of providing important resources and enhancing women's opportunities to perform their expected role as care workers more efficiently and in a qualitatively better way. The women appreciated this positive effect of electricity in their everyday lives. However, we argue that in India, electricity at the same time reinforced structures of gender inequality such as patriarchy and dowry practices, and we trace this tendency to the conceptualisation of women as care workers in combination with conventional, gender ‘neutral’ electricity interventions. In contrast, there are signs that women's status increased in the Afghanistan case, which we link to the unusual inclusion of women engineers in the electricity supply.

• Halvorsen, Bente; Larsen, Bodil Merethe; Wilhite, Harold Langford & Winther, Tanja (2016). Revisiting household energy rebound: Perspectives from a multidisciplinary study. Indoor and Built Environment. ISSN 1420-326X. 25(7), p. 1114–1123. doi: 10.1177/1420326X16629725. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this paper, an interdisciplinary team of economists and anthropologists study the perplexing case of Norwegian households’ heat pump ownership. The heat pump is a technology that has the potential to reduce electricity consumption by up to 25% compared to conventional electric heating, but, as we demonstrate in this study, when taken into use it results in little or no change in electricity consumption. To explain this large rebound effect, we use a quantitative economic analysis combined with qualitative interviews attuned towards examining the effect of heat pumps on people’s everyday practices. We find that, on average, households with and without a heat pump use approximately the same amount of electricity. The main sources of rebound identified was higher indoor temperature and heated living space, less firewood and fuel oil use and less use of night-set-backs or reduced temperature while away from the home.

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• Winther, Tanja (2022). Forbrukersperspektiver.
• Winther, Tanja (2022). Refleksjoner rundt kjønn i energiomstillingen .
• Winther, Tanja (2022). What is fair? Reflections on energy transitions and fairness from a bottom-up perspective .
• Winther, Tanja (2022). Wider issues of social acceptance in the energy transition with learnings from cases.
• Winther, Tanja (2022). Pathways to Just Transition - Authors' views.
• Winther, Tanja (2021). En grønn omstilling må være rettferdig (i bilag til Aftenposten).
• Winther, Tanja; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Røe, Per Gunnar & Smørdal, Ole (2021). Møte med rep. fra Energi- og vassdragsavdelingen i Olje- og energidepartementet (OED).
• Winther, Tanja; Røe, Per Gunnar; Westskog, Hege; Smørdal, Ole & Berge, Erik (2021). Møte med Seksjon for innovasjon, samspill og instituttpolitikk, Avdeling for høyere utdanning, forskning og internasjonalt arbeid, Kunnskapsdepartementet (KD).
• Winther, Tanja (2021). Deltakelse i paneldebatt om innhold til FNs kommende utviklingsrapport .
• Winther, Tanja (2021). The Route from Energy Transitions to Social Transitions — Where do Women Stand? [Journal]. Energy and Gender in Asia: A regional review.
• Winther, Tanja (2021). Socially inclusive transitions.
• Stokstad, Sigrid; Enger, Johanne Heen; Winther, Tanja; Olsen, Pål Erik & Sæther, Bjørnar (2021). Møte med Lillestrøm kommune, Ullensaker kommune og Viken fylkeskommune i forbindelse med prosjekt Medvirkning og sommerstudie.
• Winther, Tanja (2021). Hvorfor Include?
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Winther, Tanja (2021). - Jeg skammer meg sånn Nina (61) lever på strøm- prisens nåde. [Newspaper]. VG.
• Winther, Tanja (2021). Frykter ny nettleiemodell vil føre til at flere sliter med strømregningen. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Europower Energi.
• Winther, Tanja (2021). Socially just energy transition.
• Winther, Tanja; Westskog, Hege & Leikanger, Iris (2021). Arbeid med videreutvikling av maler for Midtveisrapportering.
• Winther, Tanja (2021). A socially just energy transition.
• Winther, Tanja & Røe, Per Gunnar (2021). Møte med Include-partner A-lab.
• Winther, Tanja; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Smørdal, Ole; Westskog, Hege & Berge, Erik (2021). Møte med Include-partner Troms og Finnmark fylkeskommune.
• Winther, Tanja; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Sundet, Øyvind (2021). Møte med Troms Kraft.
• Winther, Tanja; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Solnørdal, Mette Talseth & Nilsen, Elin Anita (2021). Include - Fellesmøte med partnere i Tromsø.
• Winther, Tanja & Sundet, Øyvind (2021). Folks betalingsproblemer kan øke. Nationen. ISSN 0805-3782.
• Winther, Tanja (2021). Skisse til intervjuguide i fbm Ledes pilot for utprøving av ny modell for nettleie.
• Winther, Tanja (2021). Searching for Variation and Complexity (Book Launch Interview). [Internet]. YouTube.
• Winther, Tanja & Røe, Per Gunnar (2021). Innspill til Oslo Science City (mars, april, mai).
• Winther, Tanja (2021). Synergimøte Include - COJUST/NTRANS.
• Winther, Tanja (2021). Møte med Lyse Kraft.
• Winther, Tanja; Jordhus-Lier, David Christoffer & Westskog, Hege (2021). Presentasjon av Include.
• Winther, Tanja (2020). Equitable energy transition.
• Winther, Tanja (2020). Kan koronapandemien gjøre energibruken vår mer bærekraftig? [Internet]. SUMs Pandemipodcast - episode 14.
• Winther, Tanja (2020). Bruk av solpaneler i Norge - resultater fra forskningen . [Internet]. Solenergiklyngens Podcast.
• Holsten, Hilde; Jackson Inderberg, Tor Håkon; Westskog, Hege & Winther, Tanja (2020). Hvem skaffer seg solcellepanel hjemme? [Journal]. Forskning.no. Show summary

  Plusskunder er betegnelsen som brukes på dem som har et anlegg ved boligen sin som produserer strøm. Som oftest dreier det seg om solcelleanlegg. I enkelte perioder produserer gjerne anlegget mer strøm enn kunden klarer å forbruke selv. De kan dermed selge strøm tilbake på nettet. Forskerne har undersøkt forholdene i markedet for plusskunder. De har analysert faktorer som hindrer eller fremmer at flere produserer strøm til eget forbruk i Norge. Ifølge forskerne er det særlig to ting som kjennetegner de som tidlig ble plusskunder: De er opptatt av miljø og er gode på teknologi.

• Winther, Tanja (2020). Include - Forskningssenter for sosialt inkluderende omstilling.
• Winther, Tanja & Smørdal, Ole (2020). Dialgmøte med Utdanningsforbundet.
• Winther, Tanja (2020). Innspill til nytt Olje for utvikling, Norad.
• Hultgreen, Liv Randi; Kallbekken, Steffen; Marstein, Erik Stensrud; Tomasgard, Asgeir & Winther, Tanja (2020). Krisepakker som forsterker krisen. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X.
• Winther, Tanja (2020). Forskningssenteret Include: Det rasjonale, planer og potensielle utfordringer.
• Winther, Tanja (2020). Frokostseminar - Inkluderende energiomstilling: temaer, perspektiver og erfaringer fra tidligere forskning. Frokostseminar arrangert av Include og CIENS.
• Winther, Tanja; Westskog, Hege; Jackson Inderberg, Tor Håkon; Røe, Per Gunnar & Smørdal, Ole (2020). Møte med 22 brukerpartnere Include.
• Aasen, Marianne; Jackson Inderberg, Tor Håkon; Standal, Karina; Sæle, Hanne; Westskog, Hege & Winther, Tanja (2020). Hvem kan jevne ut strømbruken sin? Teknisk Ukeblad. ISSN 0040-2354.
• Winther, Tanja; Standal, Karina; Szulecki, Kacper & Abram, Simone Almond (2020). How to achieve a socially inclusive and just transition to a low-carbon society? Innspill til Kunnskapsdepartementet fra Include-forskere. Show summary

  Response to invitation from the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research regarding inputs to EU's Higher Education European Commission (European Research Area and European Green Deal)

• Winther, Tanja; Jackson Inderberg, Tor Håkon; Røe, Per Gunnar; Westskog, Hege & Smørdal, Ole (2020). Dialogmøte med OED om Include.
• Jenkins, Kirsten & Winther, Tanja (2019). Energy justice – promises and limitations of a novel concept.
• Bridge, Gavin & Winther, Tanja (2019). Opening remarks: The role of energy and infrastructure in reaching social, environmental and economic development.
• Winther, Tanja (2019). Moderator during session "The role of energy and infrastructure in reaching social, environmental and economic Development".
• Winther, Tanja (2019). Presentasjon av INCLUDE.
• Böcker, Lars; Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine & Winther, Tanja (2019). Bærekraftige bilavgifter 2025 – innspill fra enkeltforskere tilknyttet INCLUDE til Finansdepartementet.
• Winther, Tanja (2019). Establishing ‘INCLUDE’ as a transdisciplinary research centre on environmentally friendly energy in Norway: reflections on the process towards successful proposal – and some challenges ahead .
• Winther, Tanja (2019). INCLUDE - INCLUsive Decarbonisation and Energy transition.
• Winther, Tanja (2019). INCLUDE - et nytt FME Samfunn: planer, mål og forskningen senteret bygger på .
• Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine; Böcker, Lars & Winther, Tanja (2019). Nei, vi har ikke glemt behovet for å kutte utslipp. Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372.
• Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine; Böcker, Lars & Winther, Tanja (2019). Er bilkjøring en rettighet på lik linje med god helsehjelp? Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372.
• Winther, Tanja; Kildal, Charlotte L & Bjerke, Lise (2018). Derfor kan strøm påvirke likestilling.
• Winther, Tanja & Gill, Bigsna (2018). Key findings RA1.
• Winther, Tanja (2018). Gender equality and Clean energy: Win-win or Conflicting goals? .
• Winther, Tanja (2018). Nettselskaper og andre aktører Oppsummering av aktørenes perspektiver og forventninger til solstrøm i det norske kraftsystemet.
• Winther, Tanja; Westskog, Hege & Sæle, Hanne (2017). Plusskundenes perspektiver. Oversikt og foreløpige funn fra dybdeintervjuer med plusskunder i Norge.
• Westskog, Hege; Winther, Tanja & Aasen, Marianne (2017). The creation of and ecovillage.
• Winther, Tanja (2017). Delaying or enhancing solutions to the Energy Dilemma? Reflections from an Energy Anthropologist .
• Winther, Tanja (2017). Electricity as a social phenomenon. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Antropologia 2.0.
• Winther, Tanja (2017). Energy and society.
• Winther, Tanja (2017). Women's Empowerment and electricity Access: Proposal for a framework and methodological challenges.
• Winther, Tanja (2017). Deltakelse i paneldiskusjon under lansering av Norads rapport "Norsk energisamarbeid 2007-15".
• Winther, Tanja (2017). Sustainable Energy and Consumption, UiO .
• Winther, Tanja (2017). Energy Anthropology Network Roundable and Discussion.
• Winther, Tanja (2017). More nuanced approach to electricity needed to ensure access for all. Development Today. ISSN 0803-6209. p. 11–11.
• Winther, Tanja & Palit, Debajit (2016). Strangely little is known about electricity's impact on Women’s Empowerment.
• Standal, Karina & Winther, Tanja (2016). Equal Participation in Solar Projects Can Empower Women. [Internet]. The Quint.
• Standal, Karina & Winther, Tanja (2016). Empowered by electricity. [Internet]. Kilden.
• Standal, Karina & Winther, Tanja (2016). Elektrisitet redder liv. KILDEN : informasjonssenter for kjønnsforskning.
• Winther, Tanja (2016). Women's Empowerment in energy Projects: What is the meaning? .
• Winther, Tanja; Standal, Karina & Hansen, Arve (2016). Gender, energy and consumption.
• Winther, Tanja (2016). Slik har teknologien endret livet for de fattige. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Bistandsaktuelt.
• Winther, Tanja (2016). Electrification in rural Zanzibar.
• Winther, Tanja & Matinga, Margaret (2016). Women’s empowerment through electrification: what is (the) evidence? .
• Winther, Tanja (2016). Matching policy and People? Results from empirical Research in Norway on why measures for sustainable electricity consumption often fail.
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  Prosjektet har hatt som målsetting å identifisere drivkrefter for og barrierer mot at norske husholdningskunder blir plusskunder. Vi har sett på hvorfor noen husholdninger i Norge velger å bli plusskunder, hvilke erfaringer de har, hvordan de bruker energi hjemme og hvordan de oppfatter plusskundeordningen og løsninger som tilbys av sentrale aktører. I tillegg har vi vurdert hvordan et økende antall plusskunder oppfattes og håndteres av sentrale aktører. Funnene fra den norske studien er analysert i lys av utviklingen i Storbritannia og Tyskland for å gi perspektiver på hvordan nasjonal politikk, reguleringer og praksis kan utformes i forhold til det norske markedet for plusskunder. Våre studier viser at: - Dersom det er ønskelig å øke antall plusskunder, er det viktig med et stabilt, generøst, risikoreduserende, forutsigbart og enkelt støttesystem. De mest effektive støttesystemene som dekker disse kravene har vært såkalte Feed-in-Tariffs (FIT). De knytter et forutsigbart støttenivå og enkle byråkratiske prosedyrer til mengden elektrisitet produsert av plusskundene. - Å redusere transaksjonskostnadene er viktig for økningen av antall plusskunder. Betydningen av reduksjon av transaksjonskostnader er tydelig illustrert gjennom de lokale støtteordningene som er utprøvd i Norge. - Sentrale aktører har ulike innfallsvinkler til betydning av plusskunder i energisystemet og ønske om å tilrettelegge for disse kundene. Nettselskapene uttrykker at de ikke ønsker å bremse utviklingen i solcelleteknologi. De har likevel ikke hatt en aktiv markedsføring av solcelleanlegg eller opplegg for å knytte seg til nettet som plusskunde. Norges Vassdrags- og Energidirektorat (NVE) har liknende perspektiver, og ser der som sin hovedrolle å arbeide med etablerte (vannkraftbaserte) teknologier og regulatoriske løsninger for disse. De gode forholdene for solenergiproduksjon og behovet for miljømessig bærekraft får interesseorganisasjoner og aktører som fremmer solenergi i Norge til å konkludere at det er viktig å stimulere til økt bruk av solceller i Norge, også gjennom aktiv bruk av støtteordninger. - Generelt i den norske befolkningen oppfattes solceller som en dyr investering og mange har ikke særlig kjennskap til solcelleteknologien. I gjennomsnitt oppga husholdningene som deltok i en representativ spørreundersøkelse om solceller, at de var villige til å betale 9.180 kr for installasjon av et solcelleanlegg. - Motivasjon for å investere i solcelleanlegg blant våre plusskundeinformanter er tredelt. Mange oppgir miljø som en viktig motivasjonsfaktor, andre sier de er interessert i teknologi og ser installasjon av solceller som en mulighet til å dyrke denne interessen. Mange av våre informanter som har flyttet inn i hus utstyrt med solceller uten selv aktivt å ha investert i disse, oppgir komfort som en viktig faktor for husvalget sitt. De ønsker å bo i hus hvor de kan leve komfortable liv uten å tenke mye på strømforbruket. - Ingen av våre informanter påpeker en direkte sammenheng mellom det å få solceller og deres samlede energibruk. Når det gjelder energivaner, påpeker de fleste av informantene at de utnytter muligheten for å flytte forbruket sitt til tidspunkter når solcellene produserer strøm. Videre er solceller en viktig faktor for identitetsbygging. Variasjonen i hva som vektlegges samsvarer med deres motivasjon for å anskaffe solceller/flytte inn i hus med solceller. Studiene våre peker på at veksten i plusskunder i det norske markedet i første rekke vil kunne komme som et resultat av markedskrefter hvor husholdningenes egen motivasjon for å skaffe seg solceller er sentralt sammen med videre teknologisk utvikling av solceller. Husholdningenes egen motivasjon for å skaffe seg solceller kan være betydelig og kan bidra til en vesentlig vekst i dette markedet i årene som kommer. Dette skyldes at solceller er interessant for forskjellige kundegrupper...

• Winther, Tanja; Palit, Debajit; Matinga, Margaret; Saini, Anjali; Govindan, Mini & Ulsrud, Kirsten [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2016). Exploring Factors that Enhance and restrict Women’s Empowerment through Electrification (EFEWEE). Scoping study report. ENERGIA.

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