Sustainable Energy for All Innovation, technology and pro-poor green transformations

• Main Authors: Ockwell, David, Byrne, Rob
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2017; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Pathways to Sustainability
• Subjects: African Studies; Clean energy industries; Energy; Energy policy and economics; Energy security; Environment & the Global South; Environmental Policy; Environmental Politics; Global Development; Power & Energy; Renewable Energy; Renewable energy sources; Solar energy; Sustainable Development; Sustainable Energy for All (Vienna, Austria); solar energy; Innovation System Builder; Ipr Protection; Socio-technical Trajectory; sustainable development goals; Private Sector Entrepreneurship; Lighting Africa; Hardware Financing; Socio-technical Vision; National Innovation System; innovation systems; UK’s Carbon Trust; Pro-poor Green Transformations; sustainable energy; Socio-Technical Innovation System Building; Sustainable Energy Technologies; Solar PV Market; Socio-Technical Innovation System; International Knowledge Flows; Socio-Technical Transitions Literatures; Innovation Studies Literature; un sustainable energy; Socio-technical Niches; Climate Compatible Development; CICs; african development; sustainable energy for all; Low Carbon Energy Technologies; Energy Policy; PVMTI; Firm Level Technological Capabilities; Sustainable Energy Access
• ISBN: 1138656925; 9781138656932; 9781138656925; 1138656933
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315621623

Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital pre-cursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international policy commitments seek to address this, but scholarship has failed to keep pace with policy ambitions, lacking both the empirical basis and the theoretical perspective to inform such transformative policy aims. Sustainable Energy for All aims to fill this gap. Through detailed historical analysis of the Kenyan solar PV market the book demonstrates the value of a new theoretical perspective based on Socio-Technical Innovation System Building. Importantly, the book goes beyond a purely academic critique to detail exactly how a Socio-Technical Innovation System Building approach might be operationalized in practice, facilitating both a detailed plan for future comparative research as well as a clear agenda for policy and practice. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138656925_oachapter01.pdf Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138656925_oachapter06.pdf