Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions
Experiences from Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique
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Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions
Experiences from Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Introduction: Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions
- 2. Community Energy and Community Resilience: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective
- 3. Where Is the Community in Community Energy?
- 4. Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Community Energy: An Intersectional Perspective
- 5. Financial Aspects of Community Energy Systems
- 6. Regulating Community Energy at the National Level Comparing Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique
- 7. The Role of Community Energy and the Challenges in a State-Led Model of Service Provision in Ethiopia
- 8. Energy Literacy for the Energy Transition: Forming the Next Generation of Energy Practitioners in Ethiopia
- 9. Pioneering Community Energy for Development in Malawi
- 10. Learning from the Ground Up: Community Energy Stories from Malawi
- 11. Bringing Policy to Light: Implementation Challenges for Mozambique’s Off-Grid Policy Regulation
- 12. Conclusion
- Back Matter