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Pathways to electricity for all: What makes village-scale solar power successful? | |
Kirsten Ulsrud, Harald Rohracher, Tanja Winther, Charles Muchunku & Debajit Palit | |
发表日期 | 2018-05-04 |
出处 | In Energy Research & Social Science, 2018. |
出版年 | 2018 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Kirsten Ulsrud, Harald Rohracher, Tanja Winther, Charles Muchunku & Debajit Palit: Pathways to electricity for all: What makes village-scale solar power successful?In Energy Research & Social Science, 2018. ![]() AuthorsKirsten Ulsrud, Harald Rohracher, Tanja Winther, Charles Muchunku and Debajit Palit. AbstractThis article presents new empirical research on what it takes to provide enduring access to affordable, reliable and useful electricity services for all. We analyze and synthesize the long-term experiences with three different systems for village-scale solar power supply in India, Senegal and Kenya. Since this scale of electricity provision forms part of village infrastructure, it requires particular types of knowledge, policies and support mechanisms. This research therefore investigates how village-scale solar systems can be designed, implemented, sustained and replicated in ways that make them accessible and useful for the community members. Drawing on a socio-technical and practice-oriented approach, we show that the electricity system’s degree of adaptedness to its social context affects many important qualities of the system such as the relevance of the available electricity services for the people, the system’s operational and economic sustainability and the potential for replication. Achieving such adaptation notably requires a flexible approach on the part of implementers, funders and local actors before, during and after implementation. We also show the need for institutionalization of decentralized electricity provision, discuss the current ambiguities in policies, regulations and funding mechanisms for village-scale solar power, and provide recommendations to policy makers and donors. KeywordsVillage-scale solar power, solar mini-grids, economic sustainability, affordable electricity access
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关键词 | Village-scale solar power solar mini-grids economic sustainability affordable electricity access Published May 4 2018 9:39 AM - Last modified May 4 2018 9:39 AM E-mail this page Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Downloadthe publication from the publisher's website. |
URL | https://www.sum.uio.no/english/research/publications/2018/tanja-winter-et-al-village-scale-solar-power-.html |
来源智库 | Centre for Development and the Environment (Norway) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/65979 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kirsten Ulsrud, Harald Rohracher, Tanja Winther, Charles Muchunku & Debajit Palit. Pathways to electricity for all: What makes village-scale solar power successful?. 2018. |
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