非正规-能源创新-金融关系:基于微电网的离网城市能源获取的可持续商业模式

IF 6.9 2区 经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
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本文提出了 "非正规性-能源创新-金融关系 "这一概念,作为分析基于微电网的城市离网能源获取的理论框架。近年来,城市非正规住区的能源供应问题日益受到研究非正规性和能源问题的学者们的关注。最近,学者们研究了离网与城市非正规性之间的关系,并主张将离网电气化技术融入南非的非正规住区。同时,学者们还主张在离网环境中采用更加以用户为中心的商业模式。微型电网和独立太阳能家用系统等离网技术已成为撒哈拉以南非洲能源供应格局中不可或缺的一部分,并可填补无电城市非正规住区的关键缺口。然而,将以用户为中心的离网商业、融资模式和城市非正规性联系起来的文献仍是空白。本文填补了这一空白,并认为在城市非正规住区实施离网商业模式时,应更多地融入当地环境并关注当地情况。本文借鉴了 "Umbane "项目的研究成果,该项目是一项试点研究,旨在为开普敦卡耶利沙市(Khayelitsha)的一个非正规定居点 "Qandu-Qandu "连接微电网,为妇女拥有的企业提供太阳能制冷。本文采用混合研究方法,包括对创业项目参与者进行半结构式访谈和调查。本文从我们在非正规环境中实施太阳能微电网的实践工作以及形成非正规环境、能源创新和金融关系的背景因素和驱动因素中提出了重要见解。
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The informality-energy innovation-finance nexus: Sustainable business models for microgrid-based off-grid urban energy access

This paper proposes the concept of the informality- energy innovation- finance nexus, as a theoretical framework to analyse micro-grid based urban off-grid energy access. The provision of energy access in urban informal settlements has received increased attention by scholars working on informality and energy in recent years. Recently, scholars have looked at the off-grid-urban informality nexus and have argued for the integration of off-grid electrification technologies in South Africa's informal settlements. Concurrently scholars have argued for more user centric business models for off-grid contexts. Off-grid technologies like micro-grids and stand-alone solar home systems have become an integral part of the energy landscape of energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa and can fill a key gap for unelectrified urban informal settlements. However, there remains a gap in the literature linking user-centric off-grid business, financing models and urban informality. This paper fills this gap and argues for greater contextual embeddedness and attention to the local context when implementing off-grid business models in settings of urban informality. This paper draws on the findings of the Umbane project, a pilot study on solar powered refrigeration for women owned enterprises connected a micro-grid in an informal settlement Qandu-Qandu in Cape Town, Khayelitsha. This paper uses mixed research methods, including semi-structured interviews with entrepreneurship project participants and a survey. This paper offers key insights from our practice-based work on implementing solar micro-grids in settings of informality and the contextual factors and drivers that shape the informality, energy-innovation and finance nexus.

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Energy Research & Social Science
Energy Research & Social Science ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-
CiteScore
14.00
自引率
16.40%
发文量
441
审稿时长
55 days
期刊介绍: Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles examining the relationship between energy systems and society. ERSS covers a range of topics revolving around the intersection of energy technologies, fuels, and resources on one side and social processes and influences - including communities of energy users, people affected by energy production, social institutions, customs, traditions, behaviors, and policies - on the other. Put another way, ERSS investigates the social system surrounding energy technology and hardware. ERSS is relevant for energy practitioners, researchers interested in the social aspects of energy production or use, and policymakers. Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss how social and technical issues related to energy production and consumption interact. Energy production, distribution, and consumption all have both technical and human components, and the latter involves the human causes and consequences of energy-related activities and processes as well as social structures that shape how people interact with energy systems. Energy analysis, therefore, needs to look beyond the dimensions of technology and economics to include these social and human elements.
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