Renewable Energy for Unleashing Sustainable Development

Colombo, Emanuela; Bologna, Stefano; Masera, Diego

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00284-2

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“…Small scale, off grid system as referred to in [92] offers the opportunity to better exploit local renewable energy. Precise deployment and sizing first necessitate local resource evaluation.…”

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“…Some further adaptations may also be introduced to keep into consideration the peculiar situation of those who are living at the 'base of the pyramid' . For instance, the '4As Framework' requiring Availability, Affordability, Awareness and Acceptance as reported in [92] can be considered a useful tool to check the main features of the BM in the local context.…”

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Comprehensive energy solution planning (CESP) framework: an evidence-based approach for sustainable energy access projects in developing countries

Colombo,

Crevani,

Stevanato

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy remains a critical goal under the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, especially in remote areas of developing countries. Based on traditional engineering approaches, many energy solution planning tools have been developed for identifying the optimal solution in these areas to assess the competition across different technological options. Nevertheless, these approaches based on an economic optimum, do not necessarily grant long-term sustainability of the solution in specific local context, since they are not able to capture any of the social implication within the Energy-Development nexus. Moreover, also in the light of the 2030 Agenda, scientific and grey literature on energy access highlights how energy solutions planning methodologies developed in the last decades need to be complemented by a more comprehensive view, in order to integrate evidence from various disciplines, especially engineering and social sciences. Based on the above consideration, this paper introduces a novel framework under the name of Comprehensive Energy Solution Planning (CESP), where three engineering phases are complemented by other three social sciences-based phases, each one characterized by specific tools, to offer an informed decision framework for the local planner. CESP encompasses a set of techno-economic and socio-technical actions aiming at preventing potential failure as evidenced by a a counterfactual analysis used to identify the reasons behind past project failures. The CESP framework, presenting a sequential and iterative structure which underlines the cyclic perspective of an holistic decision process where : social sciences feed the engineering analysis, and vice versa The CESP, emerges as a practical and applicable framework for supporting energy planning in critical areas.

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confidence: 99%

Comprehensive energy solution planning (CESP) framework: an evidence-based approach for sustainable energy access projects in developing countries

Colombo,

Crevani,

Stevanato

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Energy and development: the role of academia in education, research, and technological cooperation for sustainability

Colombo

Mattarolo

2016

WIREs Energy & Environment

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Over the last decades, the interest of the international community for the multiple interconnections among energy, environment, and society has widely increased. Today, the close link between energy and development is officially recognized. The 2030 development agenda identifies energy access as a necessary precondition for human and social promotion, as well as an instrumental right to fight poverty. Nevertheless access to sufficient, affordable, efficient, reliable, safe and clean energy is not yet an opportunity for all. In developing countries, the problem is critical, but evidence has also risen in emerging countries and, more recently, even in developed countries. A new culture of energy is needed at global level. Innovative solutions and strategies to match the economic growth with the multidimensional targets of sustainability, including environmental preservation and social inclusion, need to be developed. In this scenario, the academia and the scientific community may play a key role by reshaping and updating their traditional mission, based on education, research, and community outreach, with a vision of the society where the human being is settled back at the center of the stage.

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Fault Ride Through and Fault Current Management for Microgrids

Kou

Park

2020

Microgrids

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Renewable Energy for Unleashing Sustainable Development

Cited by 31 publications

References 51 publications

Comprehensive energy solution planning (CESP) framework: an evidence-based approach for sustainable energy access projects in developing countries

Comprehensive energy solution planning (CESP) framework: an evidence-based approach for sustainable energy access projects in developing countries

Energy and development: the role of academia in education, research, and technological cooperation for sustainability

Fault Ride Through and Fault Current Management for Microgrids

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