Editors:
- Introduces a series of innovative concepts in the fields of DC microgrid development, energy and ICT, microfinancing and value chain analysis
- Presents real-world case studies illustrating best practices in energy access programs from around the globe
- Provides useful policy recommendations to assist policymakers in drawing up plans for better energy supply services
- Pursues a multidisciplinary approach including contributions from engineering, economics and the social sciences
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Energy (SPE)
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Table of contents (25 papers)
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Front Matter
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New Experiences, Simulations and Visions from the Field of AC and DC Minigrids
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Innovations in Value Chains and Financing Schemes
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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ZTG Sekr. HBS1, Technische Universität Berlin Microenergy Systems Research Group, Berlin, Germany
Sebastian Groh, Jonas Straeten, Brian Edlefsen Lasch
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University of California Berkeley Rural Energy Group, Berkeley, USA
Dimitry Gershenson
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Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Science, Hamburg, Germany
Walter Leal Filho
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Class of 135 Distinguished, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Daniel M. Kammen
About the editors
Sebastian Groh lives and works in Bangladesh as the director of the companies ME SOLshare Ltd. and ME Fosera Ltd. aiming at energy poverty through latest innovation in rural electrification. Sebastian is further pursuing his PhD on the role of energy in development processes. Having turned his back on the trading floor, he has been working for the past five year as a consultant to MicroEnergy International across the world at the intersection of energy service provision and microfinance.
Jonas van der Straeten is a PhD student in the Research Group Microenergy Systems at the Technische Universität Berlin, which looks into access to modern energy in the global South from a multidisciplinary and user-focused perspective. His current research focuses on the history of the power sector in East Africa. In parallel Jonas works for MicroEnergy International. He has project experience in South East Asia, Central Asia and East Africa.
Brian Edlefsen Lasch is a practicing Solar Engineer based in Berlin, Germany. With the EPC company ib vogt GmbH, he designs and builds photovoltaic farms worldwide. As a Consultant with MicroEnergy International, he advised and implemented rural energy initiatives, including microfinance enabled projects in Mexico, Peru, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Philippines. He holds degrees in Solar Technology from Technische Universität Berlin and Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University in California.
Dimitry Gershenson is a PhD student in the Energy and Resources group at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on energy access finance, investment in emerging markets and business model innovation for decentralized power in East Africa. Dimitry also works as a Renewable Energy and International Development Specialist for Ecoshift Consulting and supports the efforts of the Berkeley Rural Energy Group as an Advisor.
Walter Leal Filho is senior professor at Hamburg University ofApplied Sciences (Germany) and holds the Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Prof. Leal Filho has wide international experience on energy efficiency and renewable energy, having undertaken a set of projects in Latin America, Africa, Caribbean and South Pacific. He holds a number of doctorates for his work on environment and sustainability issues and has in excess of 300 publications to his credit.
Dr. Daniel Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy and the department of Nuclear Engineering. He was appointed the first Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) Fellow by Secretary of State Hilary R. Clinton in April 2010. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decentralized Solutions for Developing Economies
Book Subtitle: Addressing Energy Poverty Through Innovation
Editors: Sebastian Groh, Jonas Straeten, Brian Edlefsen Lasch, Dimitry Gershenson, Walter Leal Filho, Daniel M. Kammen
Series Title: Springer Proceedings in Energy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15964-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15963-8Published: 24 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38652-2Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15964-5Published: 03 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2352-2534
Series E-ISSN: 2352-2542
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 294
Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Environmental Economics, Sustainable Development, Development Economics, Finance, general