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Haruna Gujba - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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widening Energy access in africa towards Energy Transition
Energy Policy, 2012Co-Authors: Youba Sokona, Yacob Mulugetta, Haruna GujbaAbstract:The discussion to widen access to modern Energy services has been influential in shaping some of the discussions on Energy at the international level. The practice of widening modern Energy services access to the poor in Africa is complex, and exacerbated by the dual nature of the Energy system across Sub-Saharan Africa where traditional and modern Energy systems and practices co-exist. This presents major challenges for policy makers who have to contend with a fragmented Energy system, which requires the mobilisation of an array of actors at cross-sectoral levels in order to develop effective institutions and implement innovative policy frameworks. This paper further argues that, the ‘Energy access’ discussion needs to take place in the context of Energy Transitions, giving due consideration to the productive sector as an important vehicle for change. As the link between Energy and development is context specific, each African country needs to chart its own Energy Transition pathway into the future, and there are ample lessons that they can draw from previous Energy Transitions.
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Widening Energy access in Africa: Towards Energy Transition
Energy Policy, 2012Co-Authors: Youba Sokona, Yacob Mulugetta, Haruna GujbaAbstract:The discussion to widen access to modern Energy services has been influential in shaping some of the discussions on Energy at the international level. The practice of widening modern Energy services access to the poor in Africa is complex, and exacerbated by the dual nature of the Energy system across Sub-Saharan Africa where traditional and modern Energy systems and practices co-exist. This presents major challenges for policy makers who have to contend with a fragmented Energy system, which requires the mobilisation of an array of actors at cross-sectoral levels in order to develop effective institutions and implement innovative policy frameworks. This paper further argues that, the 'Energy access' discussion needs to take place in the context of Energy Transitions, giving due consideration to the productive sector as an important vehicle for change. As the link between Energy and development is context specific, each African country needs to chart its own Energy Transition pathway into the future, and there are ample lessons that they can draw from previous Energy Transitions. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Nick Eyre - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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geographies of Energy Transition space place and the low carbon economy
Energy Policy, 2013Co-Authors: Gavin Bridge, Stefan Bouzarovski, Michael J Bradshaw, Nick EyreAbstract:This paper makes a case for examining Energy Transition as a geographical process, involving the reconfiguration of current patterns and scales of economic and social activity. The paper draws on a seminar series on the ‘Geographies of Energy Transition: security, climate, governance' hosted by the authors between 2009 and 2011, which initiated a dialogue between Energy studies and the discipline of human geography. Focussing on the UK Government's policy for a low carbon Transition, the paper provides a conceptual language with which to describe and assess the geographical implications of a Transition towards low carbon Energy. Six concepts are introduced and explained: location, landscape, territoriality, spatial differentiation, scaling, and spatial embeddedness. Examples illustrate how the geographies of a future low-carbon economy are not yet determined and that a range of divergent – and contending – potential geographical futures are in play. More attention to the spaces and places that Transition to a low-carbon economy will produce can help better understand what living in a low-carbon economy will be like. It also provides a way to help evaluate the choices and pathways available.
Beate M.w. Ratter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Harvesting Energy: Place and local entrepreneurship in community-based renewable Energy Transition
Energy Policy, 2017Co-Authors: Diana Süsser, Martin Döring, Beate M.w. RatterAbstract:Transition towards a renewable Energy supply initiates a physical (re)shaping of places and a social transformation of communities into renewable Energy communities. Although socio-cultural challenges of Energy Transition have been recognised (Field, 2015; IPCC, 2011; Teske et al., 2015), understandings about socio-geographic places of Energy Transition and their underlying social processes and structures are insufficiently studied and often remain underestimated. To close this gap, we theoretically and empirically analysed the multifaceted interplay between place, local entrepreneurship and ‘community renewable Energy’. Our study is based on an analysis of regional documents and policy reports, and on qualitative interviews undertaken with inhabitants in the case-study municipality of Reußenköge (Germany). Our findings reveal two important aspects: Firstly, people's individual and shared place meanings which materialised in social, physical, historical and climate-related place-attachments and meanings of contested and innovative place are important ingredients bearing an impact on processes of adopting or rejecting renewables. Secondly, differentiated characteristics of entrepreneurs, namely grounded, collaborative, innovative, change-making, economic, communicating, networking and political aspects, appeared to be relevant for the acceptance and support in community-based renewable Energy projects. Our findings reveal that Energy policies, funding schemes and administrative structures should recognise local socio-geographic important elements in the context of a sustained and decentralised Energy Transition.
Svetlana Afanasyeva - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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on the role of solar photovoltaics in global Energy Transition scenarios
Progress in Photovoltaics, 2017Co-Authors: Christian Breyer, Dmitrii Bogdanov, Ashish Gulagi, Arman Aghahosseini, Larissa De Souza Noel Simas Barbosa, Otto Koskinen, Maulidi Barasa, Upeksha Caldera, Svetlana AfanasyevaAbstract:The global Energy system has to be transformed towards high levels of sustainability in order to comply with the COP21 agreement. Solar photovoltaic (PV) offers excellent characteristics to play a major role in this Energy Transition. The key objective of this work is to investigate the role of PV in the global Energy Transition based on respective scenarios and a newly introduced Energy Transition model developed by the authors. A progressive group of Energy Transition scenarios present results of a fast growth of installed PV capacities and a high Energy supply share of solar Energy to the total primary Energy demand in the world in the decades to come. These progressive Energy Transition scenarios can be confirmed. For the very first time, a full hourly modelling for an entire year is performed for the world, subdivided in 145 sub-regions, which is required to reflect the intermittent character of the future Energy system. The model derives total installed solar PV capacity requirements of 7.1–9.1 TWp for the electricity sector (as of the year 2015) and 27.4 TWp for the entire Energy system in the mid-term. The long-term capacity is expected to be 42 TWp and, because of the ongoing cost reduction of PV and battery technologies, this value is found to be the lower limit for the installed capacities. Solar PV electricity is expected to be the largest, least cost and most relevant source of Energy in the mid-term to long-term for the global Energy supply. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Larissa De Souza Noel Simas Barbosa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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on the role of solar photovoltaics in global Energy Transition scenarios
Progress in Photovoltaics, 2017Co-Authors: Christian Breyer, Dmitrii Bogdanov, Ashish Gulagi, Arman Aghahosseini, Larissa De Souza Noel Simas Barbosa, Otto Koskinen, Maulidi Barasa, Upeksha Caldera, Svetlana AfanasyevaAbstract:The global Energy system has to be transformed towards high levels of sustainability in order to comply with the COP21 agreement. Solar photovoltaic (PV) offers excellent characteristics to play a major role in this Energy Transition. The key objective of this work is to investigate the role of PV in the global Energy Transition based on respective scenarios and a newly introduced Energy Transition model developed by the authors. A progressive group of Energy Transition scenarios present results of a fast growth of installed PV capacities and a high Energy supply share of solar Energy to the total primary Energy demand in the world in the decades to come. These progressive Energy Transition scenarios can be confirmed. For the very first time, a full hourly modelling for an entire year is performed for the world, subdivided in 145 sub-regions, which is required to reflect the intermittent character of the future Energy system. The model derives total installed solar PV capacity requirements of 7.1–9.1 TWp for the electricity sector (as of the year 2015) and 27.4 TWp for the entire Energy system in the mid-term. The long-term capacity is expected to be 42 TWp and, because of the ongoing cost reduction of PV and battery technologies, this value is found to be the lower limit for the installed capacities. Solar PV electricity is expected to be the largest, least cost and most relevant source of Energy in the mid-term to long-term for the global Energy supply. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.