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Wind power and rural modernization: wind-powered water supply systems in northern Germany and southern France, 1880–1950 (2021)

Nicole Hesse (Author)

History and Technology
Volume: 37
Issue: 4
Pages: 446-467

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2022.2033388

DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2033388

Publication Date: 2021
Edition Details: Issue Theme: Historicizing renewables
Language: English

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Renewable energy resources Sociotechnical systems energy transition Germany Users of technology Modernization Wind power 20th century 19th century France

The article analyzes mechanical wind-powered water supply systems situated in southern France and northern Germany in the time period between 1880 and 1950, when wind energy was not yet framed as a renewable, but as a rural, decentralized, and manageable solution to generate energy. Using a local approach, I highlight wind energy use in rural areas of Western societies as part of the non-synchronical process of technological modernization that unfolded at the same time as electrification, industrialization, and the implementation of large technological systems. I develop my argument in two steps. First, I provide the micro-historical case studies to examine socio-technological contexts that motivated people to advocate for the use of wind energy in times of electrification and industrialization. Second, I show the connection to general and specific contemporary discourses about wind energy and energy futures in order to provide evidence that the wind projects were part of rural modernization processes.

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Article Ute Hasenöhrl; Patrick Kupper (2021) Historicizing renewables: Issues and challenges. History and Technology (pp. 397-410). unapi

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