This document discusses distributed power technologies and electricity supply systems from philosophical, technical, economic, and social perspectives. It presents frameworks for analyzing technologies and power systems ontologically, normatively in terms of justice and values, and theoretically in terms of causality. The document argues that distributed energy resources and generation promise a transfer and more equitable distribution of power by enabling prosumers, independent producers, and local communities through new affordances and technological development, which presents opportunities for philosophers of technology.
28. System: C > Composition E > Environment S > Structure M > Mechanism (characteristic process)
29. Technological System: C > actors and artifacts E > other systems (inc. social) S > relations... M > “technological realization” (Quintanilla)
30. A sequence of “ actions intentionally oriented to the transformation of things in order to achieve a valuable result.” Technological realization: (Quintanilla)