Solar Energy, Mini-grids and Sustainable Electricity Access: Practical Experiences, Lessons and Solutions from Senegal
Author:   Kirsten Ulsrud ,  Charles Muchunku ,  Debajit Palit ,  Gathu Kirubi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367606701


Pages:   126
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Kirsten Ulsrud ,  Charles Muchunku ,  Debajit Palit ,  Gathu Kirubi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9780367606701


ISBN 10:   0367606704
Pages:   126
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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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.

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