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Did you know that Germany’s prices for electricity are higher than those of any other country in the Group of 20 (G20)? Indeed, with a cost of 35.6 cents per kilowatt hour, Germany’s electricity prices soar above the average cost of 16.3 cents per kilowatt hour across the twenty major economies comprising two-thirds of the world’s population [1,2]. One month ago, this price premium ...

Some energy infrastructures—such as nuclear cooling towers, dams, and transmission lines—are iconic, culturally visible, and invested with moral meanings (Féaux de la Croix, 2016; Müller, 2026). But day-to-day energy use in Europe also draws on visually-obscured elements, including buried pipes and wires, fenced transformer stations, proprietary software, and closed-door management decisions...

This text is meant as a preliminary and incomplete research report on an artistic research approach still taking shape. It lays out the questions, places, and image-problems from which my project MATERIAL MEMORY will develop within the research group Energy – Digital & Decentral, and offers an interim snapshot of where things stand...

Being part of a research project on the Decentralisation and Digitalisation of Energy necessarily brings you in contact with various forms of data. Smart Meters produce data about energy consumption of individual households, digital meters on transformer stations track load flows of electricity, prediction models use data of the past to calculate energy production of the future, which is then fed into algorithms that steer central grid control systems...

At the Intersection was the title of our conference at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, which explored the electrical grid as 1) a technological intersection in the broader energy system, 2) a social intersection that relates various actors in different ways, and 3) an epistemic intersection that constitutes an interdisciplinary object of knowledge. For two days, researchers from different disciplines, ...