Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions

Experiences from Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique. Edited by Vanessa Castán Broto.

This book engages with the difficulties of delivering community energy in practice, building on practical experiences in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique. In these countries, where many people lack access to electricity, community energy is an alternative to advance universal energy access. This book argues that, besides providing access, community energy is essential for achieving justice and resilience in sustainable energy transitions. This book presents a feminist-informed perspective on community energy to advance energy justice that puts disadvantaged communities at the centre of sustainable energy transitions. It also explores the room for manoeuvre within existing regulatory systems, supply chains, and delivery systems to facilitate its development. By engaging with existing experiences in community energy, the book demonstrates the potential of communities to gain control over their energy needs and resources and argues for the need to develop a wide range of transdisciplinary skills among policymakers, technicians and communities to deliver a just energy transition. XX,285 Seiten mit 32 Farb- und drei s/w-Abb., gebunden (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) minor shelfwear/leichte Lagerspuren