Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions: Experiences from Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique
Editat de Vanesa Castán Brotoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 mai 2024
Community energy combines off-grid infrastructures with innovative forms of governance to incorporate the perspectives of beneficiaries in the generation and distribution of electricity. Community energy has multiple benefits for communities, such as facilitating the adoption of renewable technologies, providing energy access where it is lacking, and building resilience. They also offer societal benefits beyond beneficiary communities, such as providing additional capacity to existing grids, delivering off-grid services where the grid is absent, and bridging on-grid and off-grid systems. Despite its promises, however, the adoption of community energy has been slow.
This book presents a feminist-informed perspective on community energy to advance energy justice that puts disadvantaged communities at the centre of sustainable energy transitions. It also explores the room for manoeuvre within existing regulatory systems, supply chains, and delivery systems to facilitate its development. By engaging with existing experiences in community energy, the book demonstrates the potential of communities to gain control over their energy needs and resources and argues for the need to develop a wide range of transdisciplinary skills among policymakers, technicians and communities to deliver a just energy transition.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783031579370
ISBN-10: 3031579372
Ilustrații: XX, 285 p. 35 illus., 32 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3031579372
Ilustrații: XX, 285 p. 35 illus., 32 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
.- Part I: Introduction.
.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Off-grid energy and the global challenge of energy access.
.- Part 2: Examining the conceptual basis for community energy.
.- Chapter 2. Off-grid energy for resilience.
.- Chapter 3. Finding the community in community energy.
.- Chapter 4. Intersectionality challenges for the development of community energy.
.- Chapter 5. Financial aspects of community energy.
.- Chapter 6. Regulating community energy at the national level.
.- Chapter 7. The role of supply chains in the development of community energy projects.
.- Part III: Practical experiences of community energy development in East Africa.
.- Chapter 8. Pioneering community energy for development: the Malawi experience.
.- Chapter 9. Changing contexts of community energy development in Mozambique.
.- Chapter 10. The role of community energy in a state-led model of service provision, the case of Ethiopia.
.- Part IV: The future of community energy.
.- Chapter 11. Education for community energy.
.- Chapter 12. Changing the narrative: institutional change for community energy.
.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Off-grid energy and the global challenge of energy access.
.- Part 2: Examining the conceptual basis for community energy.
.- Chapter 2. Off-grid energy for resilience.
.- Chapter 3. Finding the community in community energy.
.- Chapter 4. Intersectionality challenges for the development of community energy.
.- Chapter 5. Financial aspects of community energy.
.- Chapter 6. Regulating community energy at the national level.
.- Chapter 7. The role of supply chains in the development of community energy projects.
.- Part III: Practical experiences of community energy development in East Africa.
.- Chapter 8. Pioneering community energy for development: the Malawi experience.
.- Chapter 9. Changing contexts of community energy development in Mozambique.
.- Chapter 10. The role of community energy in a state-led model of service provision, the case of Ethiopia.
.- Part IV: The future of community energy.
.- Chapter 11. Education for community energy.
.- Chapter 12. Changing the narrative: institutional change for community energy.
Notă biografică
Vanesa Castán Broto is Professor of Climate Urbanism at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. She leads the project Community Energy And Sustainable Energy Transitions In Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique (CESET), funded by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). The project has built a collaborative, multi-institutional partnership bringing together a network of researchers across Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and the UK to discuss social-oriented alternatives to deliver sustainable energy futures.
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This open access book engages with the difficulties of delivering community energy in practice, building on practical experiences in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique. In these countries, where many people face a substantial gap in access rates to electricity, community energy is an alternative to advance universal energy access. This book argues that, besides providing access, community energy is essential for achieving justice and resilience in the transition to sustainable energy.
Community energy plays a fundamental role in sustainable energy transitions. Community energy combines off-grid infrastructures with innovative forms of governance to incorporate the perspectives of beneficiaries in the generation and distribution of electricity. Community energy systems have multiple benefits for communities, such as facilitating the adoption of renewable technologies, providing energy access where it is lacking, and building resilience. They also offer societal benefits beyond beneficiary communities, such as providing additional capacity to existing grids, delivering off-grid services where the grid is absent, and bridging on-grid and off-grid systems. Despite its promises, however, the adoption of community energy has been slow.
This book presents a feminist-informed perspective on community energy to advance energy justice that puts disadvantaged communities at the centre of the transition. It also explores the room for manoeuvre within existing regulatory systems, supply chains, and delivery systems to facilitate its development. By engaging with existing experiences in community energy, the book demonstrates the potential of communities to gain control over their energy needs and resources and argues for the need to develop a wide range of transdisciplinary skills among policymakers, technicians and communities to deliver a just energy transition.
Vanesa Castán Broto is Professor of Climate Urbanism at the University of Sheffield. She is Principal Investigator of the project Community Energy And Sustainable Energy Transitions In Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique (CESET), funded by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). The project has built a collaborative, multi-institutional partnership bringing together a network of researchers across Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and the UK to discuss social-oriented alternatives to deliver sustainable energy futures.
Community energy plays a fundamental role in sustainable energy transitions. Community energy combines off-grid infrastructures with innovative forms of governance to incorporate the perspectives of beneficiaries in the generation and distribution of electricity. Community energy systems have multiple benefits for communities, such as facilitating the adoption of renewable technologies, providing energy access where it is lacking, and building resilience. They also offer societal benefits beyond beneficiary communities, such as providing additional capacity to existing grids, delivering off-grid services where the grid is absent, and bridging on-grid and off-grid systems. Despite its promises, however, the adoption of community energy has been slow.
This book presents a feminist-informed perspective on community energy to advance energy justice that puts disadvantaged communities at the centre of the transition. It also explores the room for manoeuvre within existing regulatory systems, supply chains, and delivery systems to facilitate its development. By engaging with existing experiences in community energy, the book demonstrates the potential of communities to gain control over their energy needs and resources and argues for the need to develop a wide range of transdisciplinary skills among policymakers, technicians and communities to deliver a just energy transition.
Vanesa Castán Broto is Professor of Climate Urbanism at the University of Sheffield. She is Principal Investigator of the project Community Energy And Sustainable Energy Transitions In Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique (CESET), funded by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). The project has built a collaborative, multi-institutional partnership bringing together a network of researchers across Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and the UK to discuss social-oriented alternatives to deliver sustainable energy futures.
Caracteristici
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Provides an overview of key issues in the delivery of community energy systems Connects current literature with cutting-edge critical debates that challenge thinking in community energy systems Offers a suite of multi-scalar empirical examples in the East Africa context