Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales (PACTE), Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble (IEPG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Réseaux Electriques et THermiques InterconnEctés, ADEME RETHINE, This work has been partially supported by the CDP Eco-SESA receiving fund from the French National Research Agency in the framework of the 'Investissements d’avenir' program (ANR-15-IDEX-02), Rethine project funded by Ademe (French Environment & Energy Management Agency) et OREBE project funded by Région Auvergne Rhone-Alpes., Carleton University, ANR-15-IDEX-0002,UGA,IDEX UGA(2015), Pappalardo, Marta, IDEX UGA - - UGA2015 - ANR-15-IDEX-0002 - IDEX - VALID
International audience; This research aims to contribute to the debate on power dynamics within the collective action (Welck, Yates, 2018) and the potential of innovation of community energy, understood in a broader sense (Seyfang et al., 2013), in the development of energy transition. The imperatives of sustainability and consumption reduction, driven by energy transition, are leading to the integration of collective self-consumption into cooperative housing projects, where sharing spaces and adopting a sustainable lifestyle are combined with an organization at the community level (Brusadelli et al., 2016; Dabadie, Robert-Demontrond, 2016; Launay, 2018). Trough an ethnographic qualitative method, we analyse the exploitation of two electric collective self-consumption operations in cooperative housing, and more particularly the counting of individual consumptions for the definition of the operating rule, as well as the link between consumption and the practice of spaces. By mobilizing practice theory and the interactionist approach, we aim at exploring the influence of situated spatial practices and asymmetric power relations (Avelino, Rotmans, 2009) on the community energy potential of innovation (Ruggiero et al., 2018). The dynamics of "micro-politics" within the group (Hoffman, Loeber, 2016) lead to a greater complexity in the collective management of the rule, which may involve the emergence of alternative models of transition at the community level, or hinder the diffusion of collective self-consumption in collaborative visions.
