Techno-Economic Analysis of the Viability of Solar Home Systems Using Lithium-ion Batteries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Uddin, Kotub; Prinsloo, Gerro; Marco, James; Jennings, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.10.053

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“…Multiple authors highlighted affordability as a key barrier, since households can lack insufficient income to cover the high initial cost of the system and keep up with regular payments (Brown, Leary, Davies, Batchelor, & Scott, 2017;Brunet et al, 2018;Glemarec, 2012;Kulworawanichpong & Mwambeleko, 2015;Scott, 2017;Uddin, Prinsloo, Marco, & Jennings, 2017). This is heightened by the lack of payment flexibility and the absence of financing for rural households (Pode, 2013).…”

Section: Barriers To Shs Adoptionmentioning

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Solar Home Systems: A comprehensive literature review for Sub-Saharan Africa

Kizilcec

Parikh

2020

Energy for Sustainable Development

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Solar home systems (SHSs) have seen rapid growth and have proven to be a viable source of electricity for households due to their capability to reach remote users that do not have access to grid systems. Based on a comprehensive literature review of 139 papers focussing on SHSs in Sub-Saharan Africa, this paper highlights the key trends, research gaps and policy recommendations. The literature was categorised into four themes: institutional, technology, viability and user-centric. The review finds that the current primary themes of research are technology, user-centric and viability. This highlights the need for further research into the institutional barriers, need for a regulatory framework and stronger incentives for scale-up of SHSs. PAYG systems are gaining ground in off-grid solar markets providing flexibility on payments for consumers in resource challenged settings. The authors also identified paucity of research in countries with low electrification rates, highlighting new locations for SHS research.

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Section: Barriers To Shs Adoptionmentioning

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Solar Home Systems: A comprehensive literature review for Sub-Saharan Africa

Kizilcec

Parikh

2020

Energy for Sustainable Development

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“…Despite this, traditional energy is still an important fuel in the energy mix of people in the developing world (International Energy Agency, 2014). Over two-fifths of the inhabitants of SSA experience massive shortage in electricity access with over 600 million population affected especially Ethiopia, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria (Uddin et al , 2017; IEA, 2019). Recently, electricity access continues to improve from 2018 till date, and there is tremendous improvement.…”

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Evaluation of access to electricity and the socioeconomic effects in rural and urban expanses of Nigeria

Ogunro

Afolabi

2021

IJSE

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PurposeRecently, multidimensional aspects of poverty has been increasingly focused on which includes education, economy and health, while access to modern energy such as stable electricity is also one of the possible solution; thus, this article aims to divulge the relation between access to electricity and progression in socioeconomic status in urban and rural areas of Nigeria in an attempt to propose a sustainable framework for access to electricity.Design/methodology/approachDemographic and health survey data are collected using four categories of model of questionnaires. A standard questionnaire was designed to gather information on features of the household's dwelling element and attributes of visitors and usual residents between the 2018 period. Biomarker questionnaire was used to gather biomarker data on men, women and children. Logistic model estimation technique was employed to estimate the socioeconomic factors affecting access to electricity in Nigeria.FindingsThese studies discovered that there are diverse set of factors affecting access to electricity in Nigeria especially in the rural areas. However, respondent residing in rural areas are still largely deprived access to electricity; most importantly, households with no access to electricity are more likely to use self-generating sets as revealed. Additionally, empirical findings indicated that the higher the level of your education and wealth, the higher the likelihood of having access to electricity in Nigeria. These factors included political will to connect the rural areas to the national grid, development of other infrastructures in those deprived areas and others.Practical implicationsThe problem confronting access to electricity in Nigeria has three components. The first is the significance of those deprived access to electricity in the rural areas and the physical resources needed to connect them to the national grid. The second is the political willingness of the government to have equitable distribution of public goods evenly between rural and urban areas especially on electricity access which will go a long way in reducing poverty in Nigeria. The third is lack of robust national development plans and strategy to tackle the problems facing electricity access in Nigeria.Social implicationsAs the rate of socioeconomic status/development increases, access to electricity is anticipated to rise up in Nigeria.Originality/valueThe findings can be used by the policy makers to address problems facing access to electricity in Nigeria.

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“…It is estimated that, worldwide, over 1 billion people do not have access to electricity [1]. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, the number is alarming and stands over 600 million [2], with more than 60% of them living in rural deprived communities without any hope of grid electricity in the near future. A huge leap-frog and an integrated bottom-up approach with private sector financing [3] is needed in such communities if universal access to modern energy services by 2030 is to be realized [4].…”

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Electricity Access, Community Healthcare Service Delivery, and Rural Development Nexus: Analysis of 3 Solar Electrified CHPS in Off-Grid Communities in Ghana

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Over 600 million people living in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to electricity. Modern healthcare services, including vaccine refrigeration, which require electricity are therefore lacking in such energy-deprived communities. In this work, analysis has been conducted on how electricity access can help improve healthcare service delivery and rural development, with a case study on 3 different off-grid solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in community-based health planning and services (CHPS) in Ghana. Analysis from this study showed that for the 3.0 kWp solar PV systems installed at the various sites, the in-house electricity consumptions are between 4.30 and 7.58 kWh per day. It was found out that excess electricity generation of 148–304 kWh per month is available and can be used to provide other economic services including phone charging, torchlight battery charging, and small-sized cold storage services to generate income for the maintenance of the systems, which is critical for sustainability of solar PV installations in rural poor communities. The study results also showed that electrified health facilities which are able to provide basic healthcare services have potential impact on community health outcomes and rural development. Assessment conducted at the CHPS compounds revealed that, generally, there is improvement in healthcare service delivery resulting in time savings of 15-43 hours per month for the inhabitants which can potentially be used for productive work. The time savings were more significant in females and children than in males. In many rural agro-based communities in developing countries, female and children are usually the workforce engaged in various farming activities. This paper concludes that access to electricity in CHPS compounds helps to improve community health outcomes and increases time availability for women to engage in productive work that can potentially result in significant socioeconomic activities and rural development.

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Techno-Economic Analysis of the Viability of Solar Home Systems Using Lithium-ion Batteries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

Solar Home Systems: A comprehensive literature review for Sub-Saharan Africa

Solar Home Systems: A comprehensive literature review for Sub-Saharan Africa

Evaluation of access to electricity and the socioeconomic effects in rural and urban expanses of Nigeria

Electricity Access, Community Healthcare Service Delivery, and Rural Development Nexus: Analysis of 3 Solar Electrified CHPS in Off-Grid Communities in Ghana

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