As energy transitions advance through the introduction of renewable energy production and new types of energy demands, expectations for more flexible electricity consumption has risen on agendas among system designers and scholars. Social scientists have followed this development through studies of technological visions and users of new flexibility techniques (e.g. demand-side management, pricing, storage). Based on interviews with electricity systems developers and householders in Norway this article complements this body of scholarship and relates it to emerging themes in sustainability transitions research. We focus on end-user flexibility and operationalize the new concept of flexibility capital, developed within energy justice literature, to examine different framings of flexibility. The research examines how some householders have more capability of being flexible than others. Furthermore, we show how consumer understandings of flexibility are embedded in everyday life, and differs from systems developers, who primarily understands flexibility as acting economically rational and making cost-conscious decisions.

随着通过引入可再生能源生产和新型能源需求推动能源转型的发展，系统设计者和学者对日趋灵活的电力消耗的期望已提上日程。社会科学家通过研究技术远景和使用新的灵活性技术（例如，需求方管理，定价，存储）来跟踪这种发展。基于对挪威电力系统开发商和家庭住户的采访，本文对这一奖学金体系进行了补充，并将其与可持续性转型研究中的新兴主题联系起来。我们专注于最终用户的灵活性，并运用在能源正义文献中开发的新的灵活性资本概念来研究不同的灵活性框架。该研究调查了一些家庭如何比其他家庭具有更大的灵活性。此外，我们展示了消费者对灵活性的理解如何嵌入到日常生活中，并不同于系统开发人员，后者主要将灵活性理解为在经济上采取合理的行动并做出具有成本意识的决策。