The economic challenge of rural electrification: Community solutions initiative in Africa

Myers, Seth A.

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“…An advantage motive for the development of distributed energy is technological progress, conducive to the reduction of the cost of generating energy in renewable sources, as well as the development of local energy resources. The current development path of the Polish energy sector has been rather based on continuous improvement of existing technologies and services [2][3][4].…”

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Application of the Linear Programming Method in the Construction of a Mathematical Model of Optimization Distributed Energy

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The Polish economy is facing a huge challenge regarding the future of energy in Poland. The current energy system is very inefficient, it consumes huge resources that, like countries with high energy efficiency, could be allocated to the development of low-carbon and renewable energy networks. At the moment, the Polish energy sector, related to the coal monoculture, lacks electricity and the entire transmission system is obsolete. The solution may be distributed energy, which can ultimately satisfy energy supplies in less urbanized areas and in rural areas, while guaranteeing the sustainable development of these areas. In order to take up the challenge of better understanding and explaining such a complex reality, it was decided that the research framework of this article will be distributed energy in the region. The aim of the article is to ensure energy security in the conditions of innovative, ecological and open to competition regional energy using local energy resources. Currently, it is believed that distributed energy can be an effective solution to the problem of conventional energy operation.

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“…The lack of energy access represents a fundamental barrier to development and it is in fact addresses in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all) (UN 2014). In low-income and developing contexts the grid connection is not suitable to satisfy energy needs in the short term due to infrastructure constraints, financial barriers and required policy measures (Zerriffi 2011;Myers 2013). Furthermore BoP customers usually have low energy demand and a large part of their income, about 30%, is spent usually to buy small expensive units from a diverse range of dangerous and polluting sources (e.g.…”

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Supporting SMEs in designi ng sustainable business models for energy access for the BoP: a strategic design too

Emili¹,

Ceschin²,

Harrison³

2016

Proceedings of DRS

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About 1.4 billion people from the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) currently lack sustainable energy services. In these contexts, SMEs and practitioners need to combine feasible technical solutions and appropriate business models. Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) systems emerge as possible solution to provide small-scale and locally based electricity. DRE can be implemented with sustainable business models (Product-Service Systems-PSS) that shift the business focus from selling products to providing a combination of products and services that are able to fulfil customers' satisfaction. In this paper we explore the combination of DRE and PSS by presenting a strategic design tool that aims at supporting SMEs and practitioners in designing sustainable business models for energy in the BoP. The tool finds several applications which have been tested with companies and practitioners in South Africa and Botswana. The new version of the tool is then presented to support ideageneration for designing business models for energy access for the BoP.

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Green and sustainable business models: historical roots, growth trajectory, conceptual architecture and an agenda for future research—A bibliometric review of green and sustainable business models

Najmaei

Sadeghinejad

2022

Scientometrics

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Over the last two decades, green and sustainable business models (GnSBMs) have become a prominent topic of discussion among scholars, practitioners and policymakers. Preponderance of research and an increasing global pressure to adopt GnSBMs necessitate a comprehensive understanding of the state of research on GnSBMs. Towards this end, we extracted 851 publications on GnSBMs from the Scopus database and employed a series of bibliometrical techniques to: (1) explore the historical roots and sleeping beauties, (2) assess the life cycle, (3) map the conceptual evolution and (4) propose a research agenda for this growing field. Our analysis revealed that research on GnSBMs is moving from a multidisciplinary to an interdisciplinary domain. Its historical roots can be traced to the pioneering works on business strategy in the 1950s, environmental science in the early 1960s and stakeholder theory in the 1980s. Life cycle analysis indicated that research on GnSBM went through an introductory stage from 2002 to 2013 and then began to rapidly grow in 2014, and this growth is forecast to continue until circa 2040. The conceptual structures from 2002 to 2013 and 2014 to 2020 were mapped and an agenda for future research was proposed. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11192-022-04577-2.

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The economic challenge of rural electrification: Community solutions initiative in Africa

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Application of the Linear Programming Method in the Construction of a Mathematical Model of Optimization Distributed Energy

Application of the Linear Programming Method in the Construction of a Mathematical Model of Optimization Distributed Energy

Supporting SMEs in designi ng sustainable business models for energy access for the BoP: a strategic design too

Green and sustainable business models: historical roots, growth trajectory, conceptual architecture and an agenda for future research—A bibliometric review of green and sustainable business models

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