UID:
almahu_9949744350502882
Format:
XX, 285 p. 35 illus., 32 illus. in color.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2024.
ISBN:
9783031579387
Content:
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.
Note:
-- 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.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783031579370
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783031579394
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783031579400
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-57938-7
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57938-7
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