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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"energy access"”.
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Frameworks for attaining universal energy access
When assessing universal access to clean, modern energy, Sub-Saharan Africa lags behind many other regions. It has an electrification rate of 32 and in rural regions, only 18 of households have access to modern energy. Within Sub-Saharan Africa, there have been two successful cases for expanding …
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The impact of household energy access on socio-economic outcomes in Zambia
… focuses 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 …
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Guiding principles for universal energy access: integrated distribution frameworks and their implementation
Holistic approaches to energy access have the potential to break the current status-quo. They can accelerate energy access efforts, and make universal energy access possible through tight coordination among the national grid, mini-grids, and standalone solar systems, and with optimal allocation of …
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Towards Integrated Business and Partnership Models for Universal Energy Access in Kenya and Rwanda
… have garnered significant attention in the energy access discourse as an essential element of achieving universal access to electricity. The absence of integration often results in competing rather than complementary electrification solutions, fragmentation in the market and a duplication of …
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A comprehensive computer-aided planning approach for universal energy access : case study of Kilifi, Kenya
… that 1.4 billion people in the world lack access to electricity, and approximately 2.7 billion people rely on biomass as their primary cooking fuel. Access to reliable electricity and modem forms of energy for cooking can contribute to improvements in sectors beyond the energy industry such …
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Evaluating Poverty Alleviation: Essays on Microfinance, Energy Access and Limits to the Gold Standard in Empirical Economics
… topical contributions on microfinance and energy access, two prevalent poverty alleviation policies, with methodological contributions on how empirical economics research can contribute to effective policymaking. Chapter 1 reviews the existing experimental evidence on microfinance. We use …
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Assessment of household energy access: the Progress out of Energy Poverty Index (PEPI) toolkit for the microfinance sector
Sustainable energy for all is one of the explicit goals of the United Nation’s post-2015 development agenda, aiming to overcome the unaffordability, unavailability and unsustainability of energy supply. It refers to the one third of the world’s population that still relies on intermittent or …
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Accelerating productive energy access for the just transition among vulnerable communities; a case study of West Nile, Uganda
Sustainable enhancement of energy security has been considered crucial for a just transition towards low carbon sustainable socio-economic development including poverty eradication, job creation and decent employment, food security, among others. Nevertheless, multidimensional energy poverty is …
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Productive use of energy in women-owned enterprises: A multi-disciplinary approach towards understanding clean energy access in Africa
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Exploring the adoption rationales and effects of off-grid renewable energy access for African youth: a case study from Tanzania
… Currently over 63% of Tanzanians have no access to the national power grid. Instead they rely on biomass and kerosene lamps to provide energy in their homes. In addition, rural youth in Tanzania have limited occupational pursuits other than subsistence farming (both formal and informal). …
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An explorative study of the synergy between social enterprises and local micro-entrepreneurs in the provision of off-grid clean energy access
Alleviating energy poverty requires innovative and sustainable business models for delivering energy access. Social enterprises have entered off-grid clean energy access markets, pioneering innovative energy access business models, many of which involve the participation of local …
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Energy Poverty and Access Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Regional Organizations in Overcoming the Problem
Energy access has gained a lot of attention following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which under Goal 7 emphasizes the access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. Energy is central in addressing the major global challenges of the 21st century, …
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Development and application of a multi-criteria decision-support framework for planning rural energy supply interventions in low-income households in South Africa
… been observed that most techniques used to shape energy policy and planning either produce sub-optimal solutions or use strong assumptions about the preferences of decision-maker(s). This difficulty creates a compelling need to develop novel techniques that can handle several alternatives, …
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Assessing the role of solar home systems in poverty alleviation : case study of Rukungiri district in Western Uganda
… line, the region has the lowest rate of modern energy access at 32%. The provision of modern energy access in rural un-electrified areas has the potential to contribute to alleviation of poverty. The main objective of this study has therefore been to investigate the impact of Solar Home Systems …
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Crowd sourcing energy poverty data in South African informal settlements: the opportunity of mobile phone technology
Energy poverty undermines development at a large scale. It is most overtly experienced in informal settlements, where the use of fuels like paraffin, charcoal and wood prove hazardous and harmful to health and wellbeing. The expenditure on and use of energy services in informal settlements are …
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Enhanced techniques to plan rural electrical networks using the Reference Electrification Model
… countries around the world. The International Energy Agency estimates that there are 1.2 billion people globally who lack access to electricity. Planning electrical networks to provide energy access to these primarily rural consumers is complicated by the lack of accurate data by electric …
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Fueling Conflict: A Global Dataset of Energy Protests
How do popular grievances about (the lack of) access to energy lead to political violence and instability? I use a mixed-methods approach to answer this question, based on a qualitative case study in Sri Lanka and a quantitative framework for tracking energy protests worldwide. Specifically, …
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Gateway to energy democracy and access in India using off-grid solar home systems and PayGo platform
… a billion people around the world still lack access to electricity with more than 300 million of them living in India. Without any other options, these citizens are forced to either go without power or burn kerosene or wood. There is an urgent need for the democratization of energy, which is …
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Poor Economics and the Long Term: Empirical Essays on Energy and Economic Poverty
… and rural areas. The first two chapters examine energy access for poor urban households, emphasizing the need for effective energy policies that ensure access while considering environmental and climate impacts. The final two chapters analyze the long-term effects of transfer programs targeting …
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Energy-efficient SRAM design in 28nm FDSOI Technology
… However, Vdd scaling is crucial in reducing the energy consumption of SRAMs, which is a significant portion of the overall energy consumption in modern micro-processors. Energy savings in SRAM is particularly important for batteryoperated applications, which run from a very constrained …
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