Kirsten Ulsrud, Charles Muchunku, Debajit Palit

Solar Energy, Mini-grids and Sustainable Electricity Access

Practical Experiences, Lessons and Solutions from Senegal

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents new research on solar mini-grids and the ways they can be designed and implemented to provide equitable and affordable electricity access, while ensuring economic sustainability and replication.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781138359031
• ISBN-10: 1138359033
• Artikelnr.: 54400015

Autorenporträt

Kirsten Ulsrud is a postdoc research fellow in human geography at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. Charles Muchunku is an independent renewable energy consultant in Kenya with 15 years of experience in the renewable energy sector in Eastern and Southern Africa. Debajit Palit is an associate director and senior fellow at the Rural Energy and Livelihoods Division at TERI in India, with 20 years of experience working in the field of clean energy access, rural electrification policy and regulation, distributed generation, and solar photovoltaics. Gathu Kirubi is a lecturer at the Department of Environmental Sciences at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a PhD from University of California, Berkeley on off-grid rural electrification in Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Solar energy, mini-grids, and private sector initiatives 2. Just come
and invest! The energy system context 3. The local context 4. The
socio-technical design 5. Findings on how the model functioned in practice
and why 6. Resulting access to electricity and the perspectives and
experiences of the people in the villages 7. Replication - influenced by
factors at multiple scales 8. Conclusions, part one: Lessons for how to do
mini-grids 9. Conclusions, part two: The structural challenges