Surge in Off-Grid Solar Powered Homes

Khandker, Shahidur R.; Samad, Hussain A.; Sadeque, Zubair K.M.; Asaduzzaman, Mohammed; Yunus, Mohammad; Haque, A. K. Enamul

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“…Various aiding measurements grew out of it, such as mandatory free emergency stock for other components, engraving customer service hotline numbers instead of stickering, as well as an overall decrease of the mean time to failure rate. They confirm the evolvement of the local solar industry during that time [1].…”

Section: Phase 2: Take-off and Peaksupporting

confidence: 73%

“…Our principal unit of analysis is the historic and contextual component. Among others, our analysis includes extensive findings from the World Bank [15]- [17] as well as dedicated policy research papers [1], [18]- [20] to explore the evolution of the program since its inception in 2002. Special attention is paid to involved stakeholders.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although its socio-economic situation has substantially been improving over the last years, Bangladesh is still ranked 139 out of 188 countries on the human development index. In rural Bangladesh, where more than 60% of the population lives, it was in principal too laborious and expensive to extend the national electricity grid [1]. As a result, 42.49% of them had still no access to electricity in 2010 [2].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Lessons From Deploying Large-Scale Solar Electrification in Bangladesh: Can the Last Mile Become the First?

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Dumitrescu

Hirschhausen

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WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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With over four million solar home systems (SHSs) deployed, Bangladesh stands out in the development of decentral, bottom-up electrification. Amid a difficult socioeconomic and political environment, joint efforts by local authorities, financing institutions, entrepreneurs and engineers, supported by international donors, a community-based infrastructure development, largely based on local value creation, has succeeded. This paper discusses the success factors of the Bangladeshi SHS development over the last two decades and its current ambitions, focussing on the organizational models deployed, amongst others, on value-added production and financing. We then provide a critical assessment of the perspectives to make the last mile the first one, i.e. to use SHS as the driver of decentral, yet grid-based electrification. Last but not least, we give an outlook towards the potential of "swarm electrification", i.e. the bottom-up (r)evolution of the energy infrastructure by interconnecting existing and new electricity usages, storages and generation, enabling a peer economy based on prosumerism and local value creation.

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Lessons From Deploying Large-Scale Solar Electrification in Bangladesh: Can the Last Mile Become the First?

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Dumitrescu

Hirschhausen

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WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…In the US, the main forms of financing are leasing arrangements, power purchase agreements and consumer loans, from which a range of new financial instruments are being derived (International Energy Agency, 2019: 152). Microfinance versions of these financial contracts are also being rolled out for solar appliances in countries like Bangladesh (Khandker et al, 2014: 13). Distributional outcomes are also mediated by pre-existing asset-based inequalities.…”

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Labour in transition: A value-theoretical approach to renewable energy labour

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Bryant

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This article analyses the conditions facing labour within the renewable energy (RE) accumulation strategies of electricity capital. We draw on value-theoretical perspectives developed within Marxist and feminist political economy to understand how labour is being reorganised within the transition to RE. We use value theory to identify key dimensions of RE labour across the exploitation of wage labour and the appropriation of labour-in-nature. We apply this lens to data from existing academic and policy studies on ‘employment’ and ‘environmental’ issues in RE value chains. We connect evidence on formal labour market issues such as employment numbers, job quality, and labour organising and state regulation, with research on the socio-ecological conditions of possibility for RE across materials, land and households. We argue that value theory reveals how distributive and sustainability outcomes of RE are a product of how labour is organised in the energy transition. We finish with considerations for union and social movement strategy regarding the scale and scope of green labour agendas within and beyond energy.

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Surge in Off-Grid Solar Powered Homes

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Lessons From Deploying Large-Scale Solar Electrification in Bangladesh: Can the Last Mile Become the First?

Lessons From Deploying Large-Scale Solar Electrification in Bangladesh: Can the Last Mile Become the First?

Labour in transition: A value-theoretical approach to renewable energy labour

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