There is growing acceptance that renewable energy mini-grids will play an integral role in
the attainment of universal access to electricity as they are now considered to be least cost …

The Photovoltaic (PV) solar energy is an essential source for the transition of non-renewable
energy generation to clean energy generation worldwide. One of the options to increase …

Abstract The Green Economy (GE) paradigm aims to reconcile environmental and socio-
economic objectives. Policies to deploy renewable energy (RE) are widely perceived as a …

The goal of providing universal energy access to all by 2030 under the UN‐led SE4ALL
initiative calls for new and innovative solutions to rural electrification and is fuelling the …

This paper develops follows recent efforts in this journal to critique the concept of energy
democracy by highlighting conceptual challenges of incorporating the 'bad behavior'of the …

This article presents the modeling of a solar photovoltaic system connected to the grid in
rural low-income communities living in the semiarid region of Brazil. The model is based on …

Given the growing interest in the ability of the private sector to contribute to the goal of
providing universal access to energy in develo** countries, this study sets out to …

It appears that at the moment, many countries tend to favor Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)
combined with its low-cost Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system over Photovoltaic (PV) as …

Rural households represent, by far, the greater percentage of dwellings globally without
access to the electricity supply. For reasons of low loads, distance from the grid and speed of …

Over the last decades, different regulatory reforms have played an important role in
designing successfully public policies for rural electrification. One of the key aspects of such …