Electric Two-Wheeler Vehicle Integration into Rural Off-Grid Photovoltaic System in Kenya

Bugaje, Aminu; Ehrenwirth, Mathias; Trinkl, Christoph; Zörner, Wilfried

doi:10.3390/en14237956

“…Future research could examine increased imports and exports for Kenya, assessing the impact this has on power generation and system costs. The scope of this study was con ned purely to Kenya's power sector, there is scope to assess the wider energy sector through examining clean cooking (Clemens et al, 2018) and EV penetration in the transport sector (Bugaje et al, 2021). Finally, agriculture remains Kenya's biggest economic driver, taking up half of all land allocation.…”

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Evidence-Based Policy Making: Insights and Policy Recommendations for the Implementation of a Clean Energy Transition in Kenya.

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With ambitious targets to drastically increase economic activity over the next decade in order to propel itself to become a middle-income country, Kenya’s future is undoubtedly energy intensive. Through the achievement of its bold and aspiring goals, Kenya is poised to become a regional economic giant with the capacity to strengthen its position as a global leader in renewable energy production. However, current energy capacity expansion plans will see Kenya drastically ramp up fossil fuel generation, significantly increasing emissions and regressing progress made towards its climate and renewable energy targets. Therefore, Kenya is at a crucial stage of its national development with critical decisions to make regarding its future energy expansion and production. The use of energy systems modelling as a method to provide key insights for evidence-based policy making has risen in importance in energy planning globally. Such an approach can provide crucial insights and projections on the impact of potential policy decisions, creating pathways to be adopted within policy. As a result, this study employs long-term energy systems modelling to explore a series of potential future scenarios for Kenya’s power sector, providing insights into their generation, total production, and costs that can assist national policy making. Specifically, this research utilises OSeMOSYS modelling software to produce a Clean Energy Transition scenario (CET) as one possible future for Kenya’s power sector to increase renewable energy production under rapidly intensifying demand. The critical insights gained in this research were employed to suggest seven key policy recommendations for Kenya’s power sector.

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“…Future research should examine scenarios of increased energy imports and exports for Kenya, assessing the impact this has on power generation and system costs. As the scope of this study was con ned purely to Kenya's power sector, there is scope to assess the wider energy sector through, for example examining clean cooking (Clemens et al, 2018) and EV penetration in the transport sector (Bugaje et al, 2021). Finally, agriculture remains Kenya's biggest economic driver, taking up half of all land allocation and contributing up to 35% of Kenya's GDP (AFDB, 2022).…”

Section: Future Research Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evidence-Based Policy Making: Insights and Policy Recommendations for the Implementation of a Clean Energy Transition in Kenya.

Fields

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,

Ryves

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Yeganyan

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et al. 2023

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With ambitious targets to drastically increase economic activity over the next decade in order to propel itself to become a middle-income country, Kenya’s future is undoubtedly energy intensive. Through the achievement of its bold and aspiring goals, Kenya is poised to become a regional economic giant with the capacity to strengthen its position as a global leader in renewable energy production. However, current energy capacity expansion plans will see Kenya drastically ramp up fossil fuel generation, significantly increasing emissions and regressing progress made towards its climate and renewable energy targets. Therefore, Kenya is at a crucial stage of its national development with critical decisions to make regarding its future energy expansion and production. The use of energy systems modelling as a method to provide key insights for evidence-based policy making has risen in importance in energy planning globally. Such an approach can provide crucial insights and projections on the impact of potential policy decisions, creating pathways to be adopted within policy. As a result, this study employs long-term energy systems modelling to explore a series of potential future scenarios for Kenya’s power sector, providing insights into their generation, total production, and costs that can assist national policy making. Specifically, this research utilises OSeMOSYS modelling software to produce a Clean Energy Transition scenario (CET) as one possible future for Kenya’s power sector to increase renewable energy production under rapidly intensifying demand. The critical insights gained in this research were employed to suggest seven key policy recommendations for Kenya’s power sector.

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“…As the scope of this study was confined purely to Kenya's power sector, there is scope to assess the wider energy sector through, for example, examining clean cooking [67] and EV penetration in the transport sector [68]. Qualitative studies should be undertaken 'on the ground' with the involvement of relevant stakeholders, academics, policymakers, and local communities to assess the feasibility of the insights identified within this study.…”

Section: Future Research Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evidence-Based Policymaking: Insights and Recommendations for the Implementation of Clean Energy Transition Pathways for Kenya’s Power Sector

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Ryves,

Yeganyan

et al. 2023

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With ambitious targets to drastically increase economic activity over the next decade, Kenya’s future is undoubtedly energy-intensive. Current power capacity expansion plans will see Kenya considerably ramp up fossil fuel generation, significantly increasing emissions. Therefore, Kenya is at a crucial stage of its national development, with critical decisions to make regarding its future power expansion and production. OSeMOSYS modelling software (clicSAND version v1.1) is employed to produce a series of possible clean energy transition pathways to increase renewable power production under rapidly intensifying demand. This study integrates existing national priorities and policies into six modelled scenarios to provide insights into their generation, total production, and costs, which can assist future policymaking and capacity-building efforts. The high-level insights gained in this research were employed to suggest key recommendations for Kenya’s power sector. Most notably, policy alignment, increased wind power production, energy-efficiency penetration, finance and investment securement, the development of storage technologies, power transmission, and distribution improvements should be prioritised.

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Electric Two-Wheeler Vehicle Integration into Rural Off-Grid Photovoltaic System in Kenya

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Evidence-Based Policy Making: Insights and Policy Recommendations for the Implementation of a Clean Energy Transition in Kenya.

Evidence-Based Policy Making: Insights and Policy Recommendations for the Implementation of a Clean Energy Transition in Kenya.

Evidence-Based Policy Making: Insights and Policy Recommendations for the Implementation of a Clean Energy Transition in Kenya.

Evidence-Based Policymaking: Insights and Recommendations for the Implementation of Clean Energy Transition Pathways for Kenya’s Power Sector

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