Hot off the press! A comparative media analysis of energy storage framing in Canadian newspapers
| Autor: | Ian H. Rowlands, James Gaede, Sara Ganowski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment Social perception 020209 energy Energy Engineering and Power Technology 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences 7. Clean energy Energy storage Newspaper Fuel Technology Framing (social sciences) Nuclear Energy and Engineering 13. Climate action Software deployment Political science Sustainability 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Regional science Narrative Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Temporal shift 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Energy Research & Social Science. 46:155-168 |
| ISSN: | 2214-6296 |
| Popis: | Energy storage (ES) is a keystone technology for advancing low-carbon energy transitions, yet energy system change continues to be influenced by socio-political acceptance of emerging innovations such as storage. An initial Canadian contribution to the social-scientific study of ES, we conduct a comparative media analysis of news coverage on storage technologies in the provinces of Alberta and Ontario. Applying the Socio-Political Evaluation of Energy Deployment (SPEED) framework, we analyse representations of ES risks and benefits in 143 articles drawn from top-circulating Canadian newspapers between 2007–2017. We then evaluate frame and narrative trends describing ES in these provinces. In doing so, we identify: (1) a generally optimistic national perspective on ES, despite regional variance in risk and benefit framing; (2) greater attention paid to high-profile, smaller-scale ES technologies; (3) a prominence of sustainability and transition narratives around ES; and (4) a positive temporal shift in ES discourse, reflecting changing regional energy priorities and Canada’s increasing commitment to clean energy development. Our findings provide insight on interprovincial differences in social perception on ES and identify possible drivers for these variations to help inform future ES research, deployment and policy strategies in Canada and other evolving national energy markets. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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