Paper short abstract:

This article presents the ethnography of renewable energies policies in Argentina, centered in the social impact that produced the construction of wind farms. The results could be used for a cross-cultural case of how global policies impacts in the local edge grid markets and territories.

Paper long abstract:

This article presents the results of an ethnography of renewable energies policies in Argentina, centered in the social impact that produce the construction of wind farms. For the last four years I have been working in the municipal government as Secretary of Development at Tornquist District, and have been in contact with the ongoing construction of 3 wind farms inside the District. The prospective farms are licenced to cover 300 MW for the year 2020 only in this District, and the whole region expects to see more than 1500 MW with the construction of 15 wind farms.

The objectives of this ethnography looks to produce knowledge to be utilized as tools in the field of anthropology, planning and energy. Decision-making groups such as officials, politicians, businessman, entrepreneurship, and academics could use these tools to change the way they manage territories, economy, energy resources, and organizations.

In order to achieve these objectives, I study the social imaginaries about future and energy in different decision-making groups, as a way to understand the manner they make their decisions and create agendas of development in the energy sector. Specifically, I use an ethnographic method to study temporality, spatiality and rhythms of life, which I call "cultural rhythmics".

This ethnography from the global south could be used for a cross-cultural comparison with the smart energy model, as a case of how global policies impacts in local edge grid markets and territories.