Exploring the link between products and services in low-income markets—Evidence from solar home systems

Friebe, Christian; Flotow, Paschen von; Taübe, Florian

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.038

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“…A challenge for SHS Users is to not make the final decision on the usefulness/uselessness of the SHS before the operation has been understood and optimized. The challenge for the SHS implementer may be to Professional system maintenance is obligatory for more than one year after the installation [35]. User training and system maintenance could go hand-in-hand on the one occasion.…”

Section: Diffusion Of Innovation Researchmentioning

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A model to evaluate the success of Solar Home Systems

Holtorf

Urmee

Calais

et al. 2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Around twenty per cent of the world's population currently do not have access to electricity while the importance of electricity services for society continues to increase. Solar Home and their characteristic of still being an innovation, were also determined. The proposed model of success can be applied to pre-evaluate SHS programmes, to evaluate existing SHS projects, and to observe and evaluate the development of SHS implementation over time.

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Section: Diffusion Of Innovation Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, over a long period of time, multiple authors have recommended financing schemes for SHSs [15,35,36].…”

Section: Diffusion Of Innovation Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

A model to evaluate the success of Solar Home Systems

Holtorf

Urmee

Calais

et al. 2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…Many authors consider that ensuring the sustainability of PV systems in DC's rural areas stands for socio-cultural, rather than technological challenges [9,31,107,108,111,188]. For an energy system to be sustainable, it needs to be socially accepted, which implies the active participation and engagement of the community aimed at enhancing the accountability of the project [40,47,50,56,60,189,190].…”

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Sustainability of Off-Grid Photovoltaic Systems for Rural Electrification in Developing Countries: A Review

Féron

2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:A review on rural electrification programs and projects based on off-grid Photovoltaic (PV) systems, including Solar Pico Systems (SPS) and Solar Home Systems (SHS) in Developing Countries (DCs) was conducted. The goal was to highlight the main multidimensional drawbacks that may constrain the sustainability of these systems. Four dimensions of sustainability (institutional, economic, environmental and socio-cultural) were considered in this review. It was found that institutional flaws (such as the scarcity of durability/stability and enforcement of formal institutions, weak regulations or standards, incomplete decentralization/participation and the lack of institutional adaptability) seriously compromise the sustainability of rural electrification efforts in DCs. While the lack of an effective focalized subsidy scheme (e.g., cross-tariff scheme) for the electricity tariffs of the poor population often made projects economically unsustainable, the scarcity of environmental awareness, regulations or incentives has often turned presumably clean energy technologies into environmentally unsustainable projects. Progress regarding social acceptance, accuracy and cultural justice is urgently needed for ensuring the socio-cultural sustainability of rural electrification efforts in DCs. This review may help stakeholders to identify and (based on prior experiences) address the most severe drawbacks affecting the sustainability of rural electrification efforts in DCs.

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“…There is now a large and growing literature illustrating the very different forms of effective service networks that have developed serving SHS programmes in different country and regional contexts (some involving standalone developments by individual companies and others involving different levels of collaboration with local/national government actors and/or other intermediaries such as banks), as well as many examples of the problems caused by poor after sales service and customer relations (Friebe et al 2013;Harish et al 2013;Kebede et al 2014). Establishing a relationship of trust between the end-user and the after-sales service provider is of critical importance, as when a failure inevitably occurs, the end-user must feel comfortable asking for assistance or the system will remain out of service indefinitely.…”

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A review of the behavioural change challenges facing a proposed solar and battery electric cooking concept

Brown¹,

Leary²

2016

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Exploring the link between products and services in low-income markets—Evidence from solar home systems

Cited by 90 publications

References 50 publications

A model to evaluate the success of Solar Home Systems

A model to evaluate the success of Solar Home Systems

Sustainability of Off-Grid Photovoltaic Systems for Rural Electrification in Developing Countries: A Review

A review of the behavioural change challenges facing a proposed solar and battery electric cooking concept

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