Barriers to Electrification for "Under Grid" Households in Rural Kenya

By Kenneth Lee, Eric A. Brewer, Carson Christiano, Francis Meyo, Edward Miguel, Matthew Podolsky, Javier Rosa, Catherine D. Wolfram. 2014

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Access to modern energy: a review of barriers, drivers and impacts (2016, methodology): “Lee et al. (2016a) make a distinction between ‘off-grid’ households that are too far away to connect to the grid without major investment, and ‘undergrid’ households that live close enough to the grid to be connected to a low-voltage line at a relatively low cost.”
Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Uptake, Reliability, and Complementary Factors for Economic Impact (2019, background): “30 2.1 Data Sources 40 2.2 Uptake Rate at a Granular Level in Rural Kenya and Tanzania 46 2.3 Stated Willingness to Pay in Liberia and Zambia 50 2.4 Mobilizing Demand 53 3.1 Household Connection Cost: An Illustration from Niger 66 4.1 Defining Reliability 90 4.2 Reliable Electricity and the Digital ”
Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development? (2019, unknown): “In Kenya, we document descriptive evidence at baseline, suggesting that home solar does not satisfy a wide range of household energy needs, based on a survey of appliance ownership and aspirations (Lee, Miguel, and Wolfram 2016).”