ten Berge, Gijs http://orcid.org/0009-0006-8208-3955
Article History
Received: 6 April 2023
Accepted: 28 August 2023
First Online: 21 September 2023
Declarations
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: The paper was written as part of an external PhD candidacy at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. The candidacy started in 2021 while the author was working as the head of the Business Intelligence Department of Winst uit je woning, a company operating as an intermediary between constructors, municipalities and home owners for the sustainable retrofitting of houses. A settlement was negotiated between the author and the company in which the author was allowed to work on the research for 1 day a week. It was agreed that if the author would stay employed for four more years, no refund would be charged. After the author left Winst uit je woning two years after the settlement was negotiated, a sum of € 6000 was charged. The new employer, the Vereniging voor Nederlandse Gemeenten (an association that serves the interests of Dutch municipalities), paid for half of the sum. The author paid for the other half. While there has been no interference of any kind on the content of the paper by the colleagues or board of both of the employers, the content of the job at Winst uit je woning was a source of inspiration to research the NVvH as an intermediary organization in the energy transition to gas and electricity. To mitigate the risk of a biased transposition of the daily affairs of the professional practice to the researched energy transition of the past, differences between the researched past energy transition and the present energy transition were taken as a point of departure, as reflected upon in the introduction section. Also, the author has remained hesitant to jump to conclusions regarding the present energy transition on the basis of the researched energy transition, as reflected upon in the conclusion section.