Pathways to a sustainable electricity sector in Kenya: Challenges and transformational factors

IF 3.8 3区经济学 Q3 ENERGY & FUELS

Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI:10.1016/j.jup.2024.101854

Maria Apergi , Laima Eicke , Andreas Goldthau , Jude Kurniawan , Esther Schuch , Silvia Weko

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Abstract

Which factors may enable a secure, affordable, and sustainable development of the Kenyan energy system? The present study aims to understand how the country's energy system could be structured in 2050, to unravel the main challenges, and to identify critical leverage points for policy action. To this end, we designed energy scenarios for Kenya using cross-impact balance and succession analysis, drawing extensively from expert judgments. The results highlight the importance of improving the quality of the grid, further reforming the electricity market structure, encouraging more competition, and promoting decentralization as the main leverage points for ensuring a secure and sustainable energy future.

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肯尼亚实现可持续电力部门的途径：挑战和转型因素

哪些因素可以使肯尼亚能源系统实现安全、负担得起和可持续发展？本研究旨在了解 2050 年肯尼亚能源系统的结构，揭示主要挑战，并确定政策行动的关键杠杆点。为此，我们利用交叉影响平衡和继承分析，广泛借鉴专家判断，为肯尼亚设计了能源情景。结果凸显了提高电网质量、进一步改革电力市场结构、鼓励更多竞争以及促进权力下放的重要性，这些都是确保未来能源安全和可持续发展的主要杠杆点。

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来源期刊

Utilities Policy ENERGY & FUELS-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

CiteScore

6.80

自引率

10.00%

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审稿时长

66 days

期刊介绍： Utilities Policy is deliberately international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral. Articles address utility trends and issues in both developed and developing economies. Authors and reviewers come from various disciplines, including economics, political science, sociology, law, finance, accounting, management, and engineering. Areas of focus include the utility and network industries providing essential electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater, solid waste, communications, broadband, postal, and public transportation services. Utilities Policy invites submissions that apply various quantitative and qualitative methods. Contributions are welcome from both established and emerging scholars as well as accomplished practitioners. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and applied works are encouraged. Submissions to the journal should have a clear focus on governance, performance, and/or analysis of public utilities with an aim toward informing the policymaking process and providing recommendations as appropriate. Relevant topics and issues include but are not limited to industry structures and ownership, market design and dynamics, economic development, resource planning, system modeling, accounting and finance, infrastructure investment, supply and demand efficiency, strategic management and productivity, network operations and integration, supply chains, adaptation and flexibility, service-quality standards, benchmarking and metrics, benefit-cost analysis, behavior and incentives, pricing and demand response, economic and environmental regulation, regulatory performance and impact, restructuring and deregulation, and policy institutions.