Overview
- Takes a critical look key issues surrounding off-grid solar electricity in Africa
- Focus on issues of energy injustice and how these are manifested at different levels and spaces
- Covers a wide collection of important topics illustrating the complexities of off-grid solar technologies
Part of the book series: Energy, Climate and the Environment (ECE)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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History and Politics of Off-Grid Solar Electrification
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Manifestations of Energy Injustices
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Enabling Uptake: Constraints and Opportunities
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About this book
This book evaluates off-grid solar electrification in Africa by examining how political, economic, institutional, and social forces shape the adoption of off-grid solar technologies, including how issues of energy injustice are manifested at different levels and spaces. The book takes a historical, contemporary, and projective outlook using case studies from pre- and ongoing electrification communities in non-Western countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, Malawi, Tanzania, and Nigeria. Beyond the diverse nature of these countries in terms of their geographical location in West, East, and Southern Africa, each offers a different experience in terms of colonial history, economic and institutional infrastructure, social and cultural context, and level of adoption of off-grid solar technologies. Notably, the book contributes to the off-grid solar and energy justice scholarship in low-income non-Western contexts. It examines various approaches to energy justice and does so by engaging with Western and non-Western philosophical notions of the concept. It takes into consideration the major principles of Ubuntu philosophy with the adoption of off-grid solar technologies, hence enriching the energy justice framework. Finally, the book interrogates the degree to which the social mission that catalysed the expansion of the off-grid solar sector is being undermined by broader structural dynamics of the capital investment upon which it is reliant. It also argues that the ascendance of off-grid solar electrification in Africa is transformative in that it enables millions of people without access to or facing uncertainties linked to centralised grid energy to have access to basic energy services.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Nathanael Ojong is Assistant Professor of International Development Studies and Deputy Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University in Canada. He is a member of the Knowledge Network of African Experts established by the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa to help shape economic and social policy in Africa.
His work encompasses renewable energy technologies and finance capitalism, energy and sustainability, urban and rural livelihoods, financial development, inclusive growth, entrepreneurship, informal economies, socio-cultural influences on health outcomes, and social protection in Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa
Book Subtitle: A Critical Perspective
Editors: Nathanael Ojong
Series Title: Energy, Climate and the Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13825-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13824-9Published: 16 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13827-0Published: 17 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13825-6Published: 15 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-8561
Series E-ISSN: 2947-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 373
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Geography, general, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environmental Management, Renewable and Green Energy