Delivering Energy for Development
Praise for this book
Delivering Energy for Development speaks directly to the bottom up energy access solutions that are needed in developing countries to get cleaner, more affordable and safer energy services to people. At the heart of this are diverse energy service delivery models that require a new generation of energy entrepreneurs, supportive government policies and an enabling framework including access to consumer financing to be successful. Practical Action has made a major contribution by correctly portraying people in these markets as consumers rather than beneficiaries.
Kandeh Yumkella, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative
This book gives an excellent overview of the main principles and success factors for overcoming energy poverty, and provides a framework for analysing and improving the delivery of energy services in developing countries. The book will help energy practitioners as well as policy makers to develop a better and more detailed understanding of the barriers that prevent universal access to modern energy services.
Dr Carsten Hellpap, Program Director, Energising Development (EnDev), GIZ
Delivering Energy for Development provides timely and critical information on how to deliver energy to all, especially to the poorest global population. Energy being the enabler of all aspects of sustainable development, the book offers options to address the chronic global challenge of inequity in energy access in developing countries. It is a timely publication as nations embark on implementing the UN General Assembly declaration of 2014 to 2024 as the decade of Sustainable Energy for All.
Stephen Gitonga, Policy Adviser on Energy, United Nations Development Programme
Ensuring access to modern energy for the poor is a central development challenge. This book clearly shows the benefits and limitations of the methods at work to deliver energy access, and points out where the organizations working in this space governments, finance, entrepreneurs and civil society can combine their strengths to greater effect.
Jiwan Acharya, Senior Climate Change Specialist (Clean Energy), Asian Development Bank
This is another great addition to Practical Actions excellent resources on sustainable energy. Drawing on a host of experiences from across the globe, Delivering Energy for Development provides an excellent overview of current thinking on alternative delivery models and explores the key barriers to meeting the energy needs of the poor. Aimed at energy practitioners, this book will also be of strong interest to students and researchers working in energy and international fields.
Ed Brown, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Loughborough University, and Co-Chair, UK Low Carbon Energy for Development Network
This well-written book is an essential reference for all practitioners, policy makers and financiers active in the energy access space in developing countries. The book does an admirable job in presenting energy delivery models in a lucid manner supported by an excellent mix of case studies. Recommended.
Dr Binu Parthan, Principal, Sustainable Energy Associates, Kottayam, India
Delivering Energy for Development
Models for achieving energy access for the worlds poor
Raffaella Bellanca, Ewan Bloomfield and Kavita Rai
Practical Action Publishing Ltd
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Copyright Practical Action Publishing, 2013
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Book DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/9781780447612
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Bellanca, R., Bloomfield, E. and Rai, K. (2013) Delivering Energy for Development: Models for Achieving Energy Access for the Worlds Poor, Rugby, UK: Practical Action Publishing.
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Raffaella Bellanca is Country Coordinator with International Lifeline Fund in Haiti, working on local production and commercialization of improved cookstoves. She has worked in the energy field for nearly 20 years, including experience as a cleantech entrepreneur, which inspired her interest in business models and their viability under different conditions. Her research has focused on combustion processes in power plants and car engines, and energy aspects in the social development sector. Her background is mainly in physics with a PhD from the University of Lund, Sweden, and she also holds a Masters degree in communication for development. She previously led the HEDON Household Energy Network.
Ewan Bloomfield is an International Energy Consultant with Practical Action Consulting, UK, with experience of a range of energy technology and policy issues in developing countries. He has more than 15 years of international development and engineering experience in Australia, Haiti, Central Asia, South Asia, Africa, and the Far East. He has an engineering background, including a PhD from KwaZulu-Natal University, South Africa, and currently specializes in household cooking and bioenergy, working in a wide range of areas including appropriate technology design and market development, from resource assessments and supply chain analysis to end-user awareness and policy development.
Kavita Rai is an energy specialist with 20 years of international experience in renewables, enterprise engagement and socio-economic development. She has been a researcher and an active practitioner promoting sustainable energy interventions, including working for GVEP International, IT Power, Camco and Practical Action. She is a trustee of the HEDON Household Energy Network and currently works for IRENA.
Annabel Yadoo has worked as an energy researcher and consultant for international NGOs Practical Action and Renewable World. She has a PhD in delivery models for decentralized rural electrification from the University of Cambridge and has conducted fieldwork in Peru, Nepal, Kenya, Nicaragua and Mozambique.
