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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Electricity access"”.
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Adaptive electricity access planning
About 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to electricity and an additional 1 billion have unreliable access. The social ramifications of this problem are noteworthy because access to electric power has the potential to transform societies. While admirable efforts are underway, there is general …
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The impact of electricity access on education in Kenya
As an integral component of modern society, access to electricity plays a pivotal role in economic prosperity. Its influence reaches to the foundations of industrial development, with the potential to enrich everything from healthcare, to transportation, to utilities and manufacturing. In this …
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Multimodal Data Fusion for Estimating Electricity Access and Demand
… nevertheless, 770 million people live without electricity access and 3.5 billion have unreliable connections. There is general consensus that the global community is off-track from realizing the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal #7 (SDG7) target of “universal access to affordable, …
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Household electricity access and households dynamics : insights into the links between electricity access and household dynamics in South Africa between 2008 and 2012
… the details behind aggregate shifts in household electricity access in South Africa. More specifically, when viewed from a cross-sectional perspective, we note a significant (and surprising) decline in electricity access between 2008 and 2010, followed by a substantial improvement in access …
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Connections Matter: Implicit infrastructures and Electricity Access in Witsand, Cape Town
… on Cape Town's north-western urban periphery, electricity access involves piecing together electricity wires and connecting them to Eskom transmission lines or tampering with Eskom prepaid meters and recharging with cheaper black market electricity vouchers. These practices require residents to …
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The reference electrification model : a computer model for planning rural electricity access
… in Africa and South Asia-still have no electricity service. Electrification efforts have historically been focused on extension of the main electric grid, but technology developments have made off-grid power systems, such as microgrids and home systems, viable alternatives for some …
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Connecting the Continent: the drivers of participation in Africa's digital economy
… economic and social potential (creating jobs, access to health, etc.), the foundation for a digital economy must be present: digital infrastructure, basic and higher education, digital literacy and skills, social platforms, financial services, and entrepreneurial innovation. To unlock the …
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Framework for implementing hybrid floating solar-hydropower systems in Nigeria for Sub-Saharan Africa’s energy transition
… with approximately 570 million people lacking electricity access despite abundant renewable energy resources. This paradox is particularly evident in Nigeria, where only about 55.4% of its over 200 million population has reliable electricity access, despite significant solar and hydropower …
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Essays on the attitudes, behavior, and decision-making of income-constrained electricity consumers : implications for integrative grid and off-grid business model planning
… in progress toward the goal of universal electricity access by 2030. In spite of widespread technical developments, growth of digital platforms for stakeholder engagement, and improvements in technocratic optimization tools for planning, stubborn challenges remain in the distribution …
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Optimizing Forced-Air Evaporative Cooling Chambers for Vegetable Preservation
… in hot arid regions of the world with limited electricity access and would benefit from a cooling chamber that can run off minimal energy and will cool produce quickly. To advance understanding of the technology, a test chamber of the forced air evaporative cooler has been designed and built. …
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Electrifying the bottom of the pyramid : improving access in slums
… and as a result, the lack of safe, reliable electricity access in these regions is expanding. Addressing this issue will require a comprehensive strategy that caters to many different design scenarios. Slum electrification is a complex topic that needs to be closely examined in light of past …
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A planning paradigm for electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa : a case study of Tanzania
In Sub-Saharan Africa, a lack of clean electricity generation sources, poor electricity access and low levels of electricity consumption are profoundly stifling sustainable development. This thesis presents a specialized investigation, in context of Tanzania, of the primary paradigmatic approaches …
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Penetration level of un-conventional rural electrification technologies on power networks
The overall electricity access rate is still very low in most sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. The rate is even lower in rural areas where most of the population in these countries lives. One of the main obstacles to rural electrification (RE) is the high cost of laying the distribution …
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The impact of Independent Power Producers on electricity generation capacity, tariff and access in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is the most electricity-poor region in the world with an estimated 62.5 percent or just above 600 million people without access to electricity and those who have access, are connected to an unreliable system that does not meet their energy needs. The introduction of Independent …
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The impact of household energy access on socio-economic outcomes in Zambia
… on evaluating the impact of household energy access on the socio-economic wellbeing of households in Zambia. The thesis consists of four studies that are interrelated to answer the broader objective. All estimations and descriptive statistics in this thesis use the World Bank/ESMAP dataset …
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The Local Reference Electrification Model : comprehensive decision-making tool for the design of rural microgrids
… an alarming 1 billion existing people still lack access to electricity around the world. Technological advancements have pushed off-grid solutions into the limelight as possible alternatives to the traditional method of electrification via extension of the centralized grid. When grid reliability …
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An impact of flagship program: an approach to poverty alleviation
… resources like water, gardening equipment and accessible roads, and more. This is supported by Cloud (1985:7) who argues that even those women who have access such resources, it is of a particular concern to the kind of access they have to such resources for carrying out their activities, and …
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An economic valuation of solar energy potential in Nigeria
… of over 160 million, and just over 50\% have electricity access. Many initiatives promote solar energy development to mitigate Nigeria's power challenges. This work shows an economic valuation of the solar photovoltaic (PV) potential in Nigeria. Assuming a 100 megawatts (MW) capacity upgrade, …
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Rethinking the design paradigm for university technology projects in international development
… project that sought to develop a scalable electricity grid technology platform to provide universal electricity access in India. The two projects are documented as case studies and conceptualized as design processes, specifically product development processes. Through the lens of the …
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Model use in sustainability negotiations and decisions
… and model users discovered the win-win nature of electricity access with higher frequency (63%) than non-model users (9%). Participants who learned of the model's logic through presentation performed nearly as well as model users. In the second study, model use shortened the (mean) duration of the …
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