The article seeks to capture the crucial but often overlooked role of third-sector intermediaries in promoting low-carbon energy access and public engagement in climate policies. These actors perform infrastructural labor—care, empowerment, advocacy, and sociotechnical work—in shaping low-carbon transformations.
Based on a critical literature review, I explore the institutional nature of residential sector energy intermediaries, in terms of their place-based impacts and organizational vulnerabilities. I conclude by emphasizing these intermediaries’ influence on energy geographies—as spatial agents in sociotechnical transformations—while highlighting their significance in shaping current and future climate mitigation efforts.
