The volume presents innovative approaches to improving energy access in underprivileged communities. A core theme is the use of previously underutilized or unrecognized resources that can be found through synergies in supply and value innovation, novel financing methods, and the use of leapfrog technologies. The contributors illustrate how decentralized approaches and small-scale localized solutions can promote climate change mitigation and adaptation and increase the resiliency of vulnerable communities. This book gathers selected articles from the 2014 Micro energy Systems Conference at UC Berkeley that focus on technical, financial, human, institutional, and natural resource capital. The contributions reflect the latest concepts, theories, methods and techniques, offering a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and governmental institutions engaged in the field of energy access for developing countries.
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Part I New Experiences, Simulations and Visions from the Field of AC and DC Minigrids |
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1 Swarm Electrification: Investigating a Paradigm Shift Through the Building of Microgrids Bottom-up |
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2 Identifying Hidden Resources in Solar Home Systems as the Basis for Bottom-Up Grids |
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3 A Concept of DC Nano-Grid for Low Cost Energy Access in Rural Bangladesh |
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4 Experience from First Solar Mini Grid Service in Bangladesh |
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5 Prospects for Electricity Access in Rural India Using Solar Photovoltaic Based Mini-Grid Systems |
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6 The Case for Solar-Diesel Hybrid Minigrids in Bangladesh: Design Considerations |
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7 A Simulation Gaming Approach to Micro-grid Design and Planning: Participatory Design and Capacity Building |
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8 The Energy Centre Model: An Approach to Village Scale Energy Supply |
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Part II Innovations in Value Chains and Financing Schemes |
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10 Value Chain Thinking and Energy Projects---A Problem-Centered Value Chain Approach to Energy Based Upgrading of Rice Farmers in the Philippines |
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11 Advanced Solar-Irrigation Scheduling for Sustainable Rural Development: A Case of India |
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12 Towards a Waste Management System for Solar Home Systems in Bangladesh |
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13 How to Scale up Green Microfinance? A Comparative Study of Energy Lending in Peru |
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14 Microfinancing Decentralized Solar Energy Systems in India: Innovative Products Through Group Approach |
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15 Innovative Energy Access for Remote Areas: "The LUAV-Light up a Village" Project |
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16 Exploring the Barriers to Impact Investing in the Sustainable Energy Area in West Africa |
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17 The Synergies Between Mobile Phone Access and Off Grid Energy Solutions |
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18 Optimizing Device Operation with a Local Electricity Price |
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Part III Implementation and Decision-Making |
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19 Financing Energy Efficiency and Climate Adaptation Measures on Household Level in Kyrgyzstan---Market Based Approaches in a Post-soviet Country? |
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20 Demand Assessment of Solar Electrification in Off-Grid Rural Communities of Pakistan Through Microfinancing of Solar Home Systems |
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21 Scale Versus Substance? Lessons from a Context-Responsive Approach to Market-Based Stove Development in Western Kenya |
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22 How Big is Small? Enough to not Breathe Oil! |
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23 Analysis of Decision-Making for Off-Grid Rural Electrification in Colombia |
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24 Barriers and Solutions to the Development of Renewable Energy Technologies in the Caribbean |
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25 The Role of Gender Concerns in the Planning of Small-Scale Energy Projects in Developing Countries |
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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).
