Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions
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 lack access to electricity, community energy is an alternative to advance universal energy acce...
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| description | 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 lack access 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 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 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1388992025-07-18T09:46:11Z Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions Castán Broto, Vanesa Renewable Energy Resilience Intersectionality Sustainable Development East Africa Community Energy energy transition sustainable energy thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general 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 lack access 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 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 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. 2024-06-14T04:13:02Z 2024-06-14T04:13:02Z 2024-06-13T13:28:27Z 2024 book ONIX_20240613_9783031579387_25 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90918 9783031579387 9783031579370 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/138899 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/90918/1/978-3-031-57938-7.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-57938-7 10.1007/978-3-031-57938-7 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a b941ccad-e770-4b58-a69a-c3957fcf53ba 59475d91-5248-42d4-882f-f425fea366c1 9783031579387 9783031579370 Palgrave Macmillan 285 Cham [...] University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield 10.13039/501100000858 open access |
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| title | Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions |
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| title_fullStr | Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions |
| title_short | Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions |
| title_sort | community energy and sustainable energy transitions |
| topic | Renewable Energy Resilience Intersectionality Sustainable Development East Africa Community Energy energy transition sustainable energy thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general |
| topic_facet | Renewable Energy Resilience Intersectionality Sustainable Development East Africa Community Energy energy transition sustainable energy thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general |
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