Connective Power: Solar Electrification and Social Change in Kenya

By A. Jacobson. 2004

332 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• The role for low carbon electrification technologies in poverty reduction and climate change strategies: A focus on renewable energy mini-grids with case studies in Nepal, Peru and Kenya (2012, background): “These criticisms are voiced particularly strongly when referring to solar PV technologies (Wamakonya, 2007; Nygaard, 2009; Jacobson, 2007; Ellegård et al., 2004).”
• Arresting the Killer in the Kitchen: The Promises and Pitfalls of Commercializing Improved Cookstoves (2009, background): “For example, Kenya’s solar market is thriving among the rural middle class, but the majority of Kenyans cannot even afford the cheapest system (Jacobson, 2007).”
• Renewables in the energy transition: Evidence on solar home systems and lighting fuel choice in Kenya (2013, unknown): “This makes Kenya an ideal case study for the analysis of the adoption of SHS that are primarily used for lighting, the operation of TVs and radios, as well as the charging of mobile phones (Jacobson, 2006).”
• Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012, background): “In a recent study in Kenya for instance, Arne Jacobson (2007) shows that the only “economic” use of off-grid electrical energy is linked to the pursuit at night of certain activities such as accounting and paperwork in small businesses or the preparation of lectures by teachers.”
• The Sun Rises in the East (of Africa): A Comparison of the Development and Status of the Solar Energy Markets in Kenya and Tanzania (2012, unknown): “Jacobsen (2007) further found that as systems increase in size, this proportion reverses (see figures 4a and 4b).”
• Beyond technology and finance: pay-as-you-go sustainable energy access and theories of social change (2015, background): “The vast majority of sustainable energy technologies were bought via cash payments and therefore were the preserve of relatively wealthy (albeit relatively poor by international standards) people (Hankins, 2004; Jacobson, 2004).”