Infrastructures and governance for renewable energies (C02)

• Subject Area: Human Geography ; Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 328966760

C02 explores visions, knowledge production and strategic planning practices related to the Kenyan energy transition by focusing on the development and governance of geothermal infrastructures. Based on the findings of the first project phase, the project assumes that relevant impulses and policies of future-making originate in transnational institutional contexts and knowledge communities. C02 studies how geothermal futures and infrastructures are envisioned, planned, and implemented, and how geothermal development and infrastructures contribute to socioecological transformations and land-use changes in the Kenyan Rift Valley.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 228: Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Privatdozent Dr. Clemens Greiner; Professorin Dr. Britta Klagge