Clean energy product markets in sub-Saharan Africa: Complex market devices and power asymmetries

Davies, Gillian

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2018.03.009

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“…(Cross, 2013). Their making involves the creation of new corporate-community encounters involving more and different people and communities than a narrow focus on cumulative sales and individual consumers can capture (Davies, 2018;Huber, 2015;Thieme, 2015). That not all effects of the diffusion of technologies such as SHSs are positive, is becoming clearer, as recently raised in this journal by Gillian Davies who showed how private sector approaches to deliver domestic scale energy products to consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa inadvertently came to reinforce inequalities along the value chain (Davies, 2018).…”

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“…Their making involves the creation of new corporate-community encounters involving more and different people and communities than a narrow focus on cumulative sales and individual consumers can capture (Davies, 2018;Huber, 2015;Thieme, 2015). That not all effects of the diffusion of technologies such as SHSs are positive, is becoming clearer, as recently raised in this journal by Gillian Davies who showed how private sector approaches to deliver domestic scale energy products to consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa inadvertently came to reinforce inequalities along the value chain (Davies, 2018). Questioning whether 'green jobs are just jobs' Dustin Mulvaney has further drawn attention to environmental justice concerns in the manufacturing of photovoltaics (Mulvaney, 2014) and together with Peter Newell called for greater attention to the political economy of the 'just transition' (Newell & Mulvaney, 2013).…”

Section: From "Counting Installations" Towards Diffusion In Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Diffusion on the ground: Rethinking the logic of scale and access in off-grid solar in Sri Lanka

Turner

2019

Energy Research & Social Science

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Section: From "Counting Installations" Towards Diffusion In Actionmentioning

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Section: From "Counting Installations" Towards Diffusion In Actionmentioning

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Diffusion on the ground: Rethinking the logic of scale and access in off-grid solar in Sri Lanka

Turner

2019

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Moreover, because of this role, which is mainly associated with the performance of domestic tasks, women face increasing risks to their health [36]. Cooking over an open fire with solid fuels results in incomplete combustion, causing severe respiratory diseases that exacerbate mortality among women and children in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Mozambique, Bangladesh, and Kenya, among others [14,[54][55][56][57].…”

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Analysis of Research on the SDGs: The Relationship between Climate Change, Poverty and Inequality

Pérez-Peña¹,

García²,

Chico³

et al. 2021

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Since its adoption in September 2015, the 2030 Agenda has laid the foundations for a model of shared prosperity for a sustainable world. The current global pandemic highlights profound inequalities affecting our economies, health, and quality of life. For this reason, the aim of this study was to present the current state of scientific research related to inequality, poverty, and climate change, and to propose lines of improvement that can contribute to achieving three of the 17 SDGs (end poverty, SDG 1; reduce inequality, SDG 10; and climate action, SDG 13), proposed in the 2030 Agenda. For this purpose, we undertook a systematic literature review. The results show that the subject of poverty, inequality, and climate change has been little studied or articulated by researchers, and significant differences exist between the different areas studied. The highest number of publications (51.7%) is associated with topics related to sustainability—environment and economics. The remainder are distributed among 12 other research areas. Another relevant finding is that the effects of climate change are more pressing for more vulnerable populations, including impoverished women from rural areas and children from underdeveloped countries. This gender and social inequality has been rarely addressed in studies. Food security and energy poverty is another under-researched area. According to the results obtained in this work, we consider that the circular economy may improve these indicators, constituting a line of future research. Thus, one of the main objectives of this approach is to eliminate negative externalities, specifically the existing social inequalities within the current linear economy model.

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“…The latter casts analytical attention on the ways technology and innovation co-evolve with social practices and broader social institutions, creating dominant socio-technical regimes and path dependency that new niches of sustainable technology struggle to compete with and influence in new, sustainable directions. Importantly, as several authors have now shown in relation to energy access (e.g., [8,16,[39][40][41][42]), these socio-technical regimes can look different in remote areas of low-income countries to those studied in the Global North; the latter being the empirical context within which the majority of the socio-technical transitions literature has emerged to date (as analysed, for example, in a recent special issue, see [43,44]). Nevertheless, as demonstrated by the aforementioned recent contributions, these low-income contexts are still subject to similar dynamics, where everyday practices and powerful economic and political interests align with dominant socio-technical regimes (e.g., in the supply of kerosene for cooking and lighting), or with potentially unsustainable alternatives (e.g., expanding grid-connected, coal-fired electricity supply), implying continued utility for socio-technical transitions perspectives within low-income contexts.…”

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Can Pay-As-You-Go, Digitally Enabled Business Models Support Sustainability Transformations in Developing Countries? Outstanding Questions and a Theoretical Basis for Future Research

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This paper examines the rapidly emerging and rapidly changing phenomenon of pay-as-you-go (PAYG), digitally enabled business models, which have had significant early success in providing poor people with access to technologies relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (e.g., for electricity access, water and sanitation, and agricultural irrigation). Data are analysed based on literature review, two stakeholder workshops (or "transformation labs"), and stakeholder interviews (engaging 41 stakeholders in total). This demonstrates the existing literature on PAYG is patchy at best, with no comprehensive or longitudinal, and very little theoretically grounded, research to date. The paper contributes to existing research on PAYG, and sustainability transformations more broadly, in two key ways. Firstly, it articulates a range of questions that remain to be answered in order to understand and deliver against the current and potential contribution of PAYG in affecting sustainability transformations (the latter we define as achieving environmental sustainability and social justice). These questions focus at three levels: national contexts for fostering innovation and technology uptake, the daily lives of poor and marginalised women and men, and global political economies and value accumulation. Secondly, the paper articulates three areas of theory (based on emerging critical social science research on sustainable energy access) that have potential to support future research that might answer these questions, namely: socio-technical innovation system-building, social practice, and global political economy and value chain analysis. Whilst recognising existing tensions between these three areas of theory, we argue that rapid sustainability transformations demand a level of epistemic pragmatism. Such pragmatism, we argue, can be achieved by situating research using any of the above areas of theory within the broader context of Leach et al.'s (2010) Pathways Approach. This allows for exactly the kind of interdisciplinary approach, based on a commitment to pluralism and the co-production of knowledge, and firmly rooted commitment to environmental sustainability and social justice that the SDGs demand.

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Clean energy product markets in sub-Saharan Africa: Complex market devices and power asymmetries

Cited by 26 publications

References 21 publications

Diffusion on the ground: Rethinking the logic of scale and access in off-grid solar in Sri Lanka

Diffusion on the ground: Rethinking the logic of scale and access in off-grid solar in Sri Lanka

Analysis of Research on the SDGs: The Relationship between Climate Change, Poverty and Inequality

Can Pay-As-You-Go, Digitally Enabled Business Models Support Sustainability Transformations in Developing Countries? Outstanding Questions and a Theoretical Basis for Future Research

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