Energy and climate transitions bear an inherent risk of replicating historically embedded unjust gendered norms in the current energy regimes. Positioning our work within critical feminist scholarship, our study emphasizes the embedded nature of energy technologies within respective socio-economic, institutional and cultural contexts. We use a combined lens of care and epistemic injustice to examine the case study of Solar Mamas in Barefoot College Zanzibar, highlighting the nuanced interplay of power relations in decentralized energy transitions. This approach helps comprehend and value gendered energy care work as involving skilled labour in everyday life. Our findings illustrate the need for energy transitions research, policy and practice to be deeply informed by lived experiences, diverse practices of care within the energy webs and valuing of multiple voices. We argue that interventions prioritizing care and knowledge in decentralized, locally managed energy provisioning have the potential to disrupt established gender relations.

能源和气候转型面临着在当前能源制度中复制历史上根深蒂固的不公正性别规范的固有风险。我们的研究将我们的工作定位在批判的女权主义学术中，强调能源技术在各自社会经济、制度和文化背景下的嵌入性质。我们结合护理和认知不公正的视角来研究桑给巴尔赤脚学院太阳能妈妈的案例研究，强调分散能源转型中权力关系的微妙相互作用。这种方法有助于理解和重视性别能源护理工作，因为它涉及日常生活中的熟练劳动力。我们的研究结果表明，能源转型研究、政策和实践需要深入了解生活经验、能源网络内的多样化护理实践以及对多种声音的重视。我们认为，在分散的、本地管理的能源供应中优先考虑护理和知识的干预措施有可能破坏既定的性别关系。