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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"electricity infrastructure"”.
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Elevating Sub-Saharan Africa: The Effect of Infrastructure Investment in Alleviating Poverty
This study investigates the effect of infrastructure development on poverty reduction in 35 SubSaharan African countries from 2005 to 2015. This timeframe was chosen as it encapsulates the final 11 years of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals era, recognised as one of the most …
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Smart grid analysis with particular references to power quality and load forecast
The electricity industry was designed more than 50 years ago when the load and generation was less, now we are in the information age with a digital society where the demand is very high, this has forced the electricity infrastructure to its limits which was not designed for, in addition, the …
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An analysis of the viability and competitiveness of DC microgrids in northern India
… in generation and transmission, distribution infrastructure to reach remote areas can be prohibitively costly to install and maintain. The low demand of newly electrified customers also makes many electrification projects economically unviable. Northern India provides a case study in the …
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Geospatial cost drivers in computer-aided electrification planning : the case of Rwanda
… energy access. To this end, a technoeconomic electricity infrastructure modeling software referred to as the Reference Electrification Model, or REM, has been conceived as a tool of potential use in navigating those particular obstacles which lie at the nexus of technology and policy. This …
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Minigrids for electrification : policies to promote industry growth
… people who currently lack access to reliable electricity service. Of the $331 billion, the IEA estimates that 34% of this capital will be directed towards minigrid systems. In line with these capital estimates, governments in many countries with low levels of electricity service are …
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The application and assessment of active network management techniques for distribution network power flows
… connection of clean energy sources to the UK's electricity infrastructure are influencing a significant increase of distributed generation (DG) planning applications. With an abundance of the UK's indigenous energy resources being either rural or coastal large volumes of DG are seeking …
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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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Electricity Supply in Khartoum: the planned, the delivered, the experienced
As the first step in rethinking infrastructure configurations and their alternatives, this thesis aims at looking into the existing policy framework that governs electricity supply in Khartoum, its implementation and how it's experienced by Khartoum's residents. By zooming into one locality in …
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Plug-in electric vehicle introduction in the EU
… and on the emissions produced in generating the electricity to charge the vehicle. This electricity is produced to a certain extent by conventional GHG emitting technologies such as coal, petroleum and gas depending on each country's electricity generation mix. Hence, individual country …
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Using inclusive wealth as a measure of sustainability for infrastructure planning and evaluation
… measuring the impact of alternative infrastructure plans on IW. The focus of the work is on electricity planning in oil-exporting countries. Domestic oil consumption in these countries, driven by increasing electricity use, threatens long-term development by reducing the export …
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Does the Karoo population of Martial Eagles (Polemaetus bellicosus) have the potential to buffer the species? national decline?
… shift was likely to have been facilitated by electricity infrastructure, specifically large pylons, on which they now nest. In this study, we attempted a population viability analysis of this population. Our interest was to explore whether the Karoo population might be a source population and, …
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Techno-Economic modelling of hybrid renewable mini-grids for rural electrification planning in Sub-Saharan Africa
… 1.1 billion people are living without access to electricity, with over 55% living in Sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, 85% live in rural areas, often with challenging terrain, low income and population density; or in countries with severe underinvestment in electricity infrastructure making grid …
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Understanding factors for investment into South African diaspora bonds: an extended theory of planned behaviour
South Africa's power infrastructure faces a multi-faceted crisis linked to electricity supply, ageing infrastructure and a concentration of coal-based production, as well as shortfalls in financing infrastructure development. Diaspora bonds offer a promising alternative financing mechanism for …
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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, …