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    The Backbone: Construction of a Regional Electricity Grid in the Arabian Peninsula

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    Author
    Günel, Gökçe
    Affiliation
    Univ Arizona, Sch Middle Eastern & North African Studies
    Issue Date
    2018
    Keywords
    regional grid
    Arabian Peninsula
    infrastructure
    GCC
    pricing
    electricity
    
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    Publisher
    ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
    Citation
    Günel, G. (2018). The Backbone: Construction of a Regional Electricity Grid in the Arabian Peninsula. Engineering Studies, 10(2-3), 90-114.
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    ENGINEERING STUDIES
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    © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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    Abstract
    This article studies the production of a power grid across six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, known as 'the backbone,' which has been conceptualized as an answer to power outages. First it analyzes how experts working with and around the GCC Interconnection Authority (GCCIA) advance claims to a regional territorial imagination. Second, it shows that the construction of the grid not only indicates a shift in the material arrangement of wires and sub-stations, but also necessitates new understandings of transparency and a new formula for the electricity price, facilitating the cutting of government subsidies along with additional price increases. Third, it interrogates how electricity is consumed in the region. Policy-makers expected that electricity price increases would lead to lower rates of consumption. Yet after price hikes were instituted, analysts reported how they had no impact. Users behaved in ways that the grid's engineers did not anticipate. Overall the article shows how various actors conduct 'boundary work,' that is, how they set limits between the political, the financial and the technical while producing the backbone. The article explores how this boundary work helps stabilize a particular sociotechnical imaginary of energy security in the GCC, masking anxieties associated with a future beyond oil.
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    12 month embargo; published online: 20 Sep 2018
    ISSN
    1937-8629
    1940-8374
    DOI
    10.1080/19378629.2018.1523176
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    Final accepted manuscript
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    University of Arizona
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