Potential of fueling spark-ignition engines with syngas or syngas blends for power generation in rural electrification: A short review and S.W.O.T. analysis

Andriatoavina, Dolly Armël Sylvain; Fakra, Ali Hamada; Razafindralambo, Ny Aina Manitra Nany; Praene, Jean-Philippe; Andriamampianina, José

doi:10.1016/j.seta.2021.101510

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“…Similarly, the theme on "hydropower" delves into whether and how small-, micro-, and pico-hydropower can play a role in electrification (Koirala et al, 2017;Bhandari et al, 2018;Ariyabandu, 2020). Meanwhile, the theme on "bioenergy" examines the potential of different fuel sources and technologies in supplying energy (Okure et al, 2018;Andriatoavina et al, 2021;Kamalimeera and Kirubakaran, 2021). In addition, the literature has studied the production of hydrogen and other materials for energy in the theme on "energy materials" Nawaz et al, 2021) as well as the manufacturing, performance, and life cycle assessment of small "wind energy" (Masud, 1998;Mukulo et al, 2014;Rama Prabha et al, 2017).…”

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Brown-out of policy ideas? A bibliometric review and computational text analysis of research on energy access

Goyal,

Howlett

2023

Front. Sustain. Energy Policy

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IntroductionThe target of universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services—key for individual, social, and economic well-being—is unlikely to be achieved by 2030 based on the current trend. Public policy will likely need to play a key role in accelerating progress in this regard. Although perspectives from the field of policy studies can support this effort, to what extent they have been employed in the literature on energy access remains unclear.MethodsThis study analyzed nearly 7,500 publications on energy access through a combination of bibliometric review and computational text analysis of their titles and abstracts to examine whether and how they have engaged with public policy perspectives, specifically, policy process research, policy design studies, and the literature on policy evaluation.ResultsWe discovered 27 themes in the literature on energy access, but public policy was not among them. Subsequently, we identified 23 themes in a new analysis of the 1,751 publications in our original dataset, mentioning “policy” in their title or abstract. However, few of them engaged with public policy, and even those that did comprised a rather small share of the literature. Finally, we extracted phrases pertaining to public policy in this reduced dataset, but found limited mention of terms related to the policy process, policy design, or policy evaluation.DiscussionWhile to some extent this might reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the research on energy access, a manual review of the abstracts of select publications corroborated this finding. Also, it shed light on how the literature has engaged with public policy and helped identify opportunities for broadening and deepening policy relevant research on energy access. We conclude that, despite their relevance to energy access, public policy perspectives have infrequently and unevenly informed existing research on the topic, and call on scholars in both communities to address this gap in the future.

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