Upscaling of business model experiments in off-grid PV solar energy in India
By S. Jolly, Rob P. J. M. Raven, Ha Henny Romijn. Sustainability Science, 2012
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Rapidly developing countries like India face numerous challenges related to social and environmental sustainability, which are associated with their fast economic growth and rising energy demand, climate change, and widening disparities between the rich and the poor. Recently, a number of claims have been made in the literature that the prospects of alternative development pathways in emerging economies in Asia are becoming more likely, and that these economies might even leapfrog Western initiatives. This paper contributes by reporting on the five most visible and established initiatives in the area of off-grid PV solar energy in India, specifically homing in on the innovative business models that are evolving. We develop a new typology of upscaling dimensions in order to analyze these five initiatives. They are found to be quite successful, but have difficulty in terms of reaching the poorest of the poor (deep upscaling) and bringing about required institutional change (institutional upscaling).
Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Pollution
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- Breakthrough without subsidies? PV business model experiments in the Netherlands (2013, background): “In this context, SNM scholars recently started exploring the role of business model experiments in sustainability transition pathways as well (Cheschin, 2012; Geels, 2011; Jolly et al., 2012; Raven et al., 2008).”
- What is challenging renewable energy entrepreneurs in developing countries (2016, background): “Obstacles to improving the uptake of renewable energy technologies, such as infrastructural, logistical and cost-efficacy problems related to upscaling/expanding demonstration projects [68] and the lack of attention paid to increasing demand by setting up and developing end-user markets [22,69], are”
- Sustainability transitions in developing countries: Major insights and their implications for research and policy (2017, background): “It also has implications for the direction of innovation, as there is more interest in innovation for and by the poor and with a lower environmental footprint (Jolly et al., 2012; Wieczorek et al., 2015a).”
- Three is a crowd? Exploring the potential of crowdfunding for renewable energy in the Netherlands (2016, background): “Previous literature has already treated novel business models as socio-technical practices developing in niches, by showing how a successful business model can acquire resources and ‘grow’ relative to less successful designs, by expanding to new customer segments (Jolly et al., 2012).”