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This book evaluates off-grid solar electrification in Africa by examining how political, economic, institutional, and social forces shape the adoption of off-grid solar technologies, including how issues of energy injustice are manifested at different levels and spaces. The book takes a historical, contemporary, and projective outlook using case studies from pre- and ongoing electrification communities in non-Western countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, Malawi, Tanzania, and Nigeria. Beyond the diverse nature of these countries in terms of their geographical location in West, East, and Southern Africa, each offers a different experience in terms of colonial history, economic and institutional infrastructure, social and cultural context, and level of adoption of off-grid solar technologies. Notably, the book contributes to the off-grid solar and energy justice scholarship in low-income non-Western contexts. It examines various approaches to energy justice and does so by engaging with Western and non-Western philosophical notions of the concept. It takes into consideration the major principles of Ubuntu philosophy with the adoption of off-grid solar technologies, hence enriching the energy justice framework. Finally, the book interrogates the degree to which the social mission that catalysed the expansion of the off-grid solar sector is being undermined by broader structural dynamics of the capital investment upon which it is reliant. It also argues that the ascendance of off-grid solar electrification in Africa is transformative in that it enables millions of people without access to or facing uncertainties linked to centralised grid energy to have access to basic energy services.

Relation between energy and economics --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Geography --- energiebeheer (technologie) --- energiemanagement (economie) --- energiebeleid --- energie-economie --- hernieuwbare energie --- milieubeleid --- geografie --- Electrification. --- Solar energy. --- Engineering --- Technology & Engineering

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Nowadays most consumers are aware of the European dimensions of their electricity supply. But what ideas lie behind this European network? In constructing electricity networks, Europe performed a Janus-faced function. On the one hand, a European network would bolster economic growth and peace. On the other, economic growth through electrification would increase military potential. By combining a wide array of rarely used sources, this book unravels how engineers, industrialists, and policymakers used ideas of Europe to gain support for building a European system. By focusing on transnational and European actors, this book is a valuable addition to existing national histories of electrification. It is an original contribution to the history of technology, while also making the role of technology visible in more mainstream European history. The empirical chapters show how ideas of European cooperation in general became intertwined with network planning during the Interwar period, although the Depression and WWII prevented a European electricity network from being constructed. The subsequent chapters describe the influence of the Marshall Plan on European network-building, focusing on both its economic and military aspects. The last chapter portrays how the Iron Curtain was contested. The troubled expansion of networks and capacity in Western Europe provided an underpinning for political rapprochement with the East in the 1970s and 1980s. Political and economic turmoil after 1989 accelerated this process, leading to an interconnected European system by 1995.

History of Europe --- Relation between energy and economics --- Electrical engineering --- EEC / European Union - EU -Europese Unie - Union Européenne - UE --- 331.12 --- 331.100 --- 338.753.2 --- 385.23 --- 334.151.7 --- Geschiedenis van de industrie. --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Elektrische energie. --- Andere vervoermiddelen over land: pijpleidingen; vervoer van olie, gas, elektriciteit, water. --- EG : industrieel- en energiebeleid. --- Electrification --- Electric power systems --- Réseaux électriques (Energie) --- Electric utilities --- Electricity. --- Electric networks. --- Electric industries --- Galvanism --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Magnetism --- Industries --- Networks, Electric --- Electric circuits --- Electric lines --- Electric power distribution --- System analysis --- History. --- Power systems, Electric --- Systems, Electric power --- Electric power production --- Geschiedenis van de industrie --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Elektrische energie --- Andere vervoermiddelen over land: pijpleidingen; vervoer van olie, gas, elektriciteit, water --- EG : industrieel- en energiebeleid