气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Enabling development impact of solar mini-grids through the community engagement: Evidence from rural Sierra Leone

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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112294
	Enabling development impact of solar mini-grids through the community engagement: Evidence from rural Sierra Leone
	Liu Y.; Bah Z.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	03014215
卷号	154
英文摘要	Renewable energy based mini-grids offer a critical solution for universal access to energy in sub-Saharan Africa. We conduct a survey in rural Sierra Leone to measure the perception of local beneficiaries of two solar mini-grid projects vis-à-vis renewable energy potential, community engagement and poverty alleviation. By applying a simple mediation model, we find that the community engagement plays a significant role of chain of influence between renewable energy and poverty reduction - each 1% increase in the perceived renewable energy potential can lead to a 0.195% increase in the perceived poverty reduction, resulting from the community engagement. This mediating effect of the community engagement accounts for around 60% of the total effects of renewable energy on poverty reduction. These findings suggest that empowering the community is essential to creating electricity demand and delivering development impact of renewable energy based mini-grids in the deep poverty context. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Africa Energy access Mini-grids Poverty Renewable energy
英文关键词	Africa; Community engagement; Development impacts; Energy access; Energy-based; Mini grids; Poverty; Poverty reduction; Renewable energies; Sierra Leone; Renewable energy resources; alternative energy; energy policy; household energy; poverty alleviation; renewable resource; rural development; Sierra Leone
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205227
作者单位	African Development Bank, Cote d'Ivoire; School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu Y.,Bah Z.. Enabling development impact of solar mini-grids through the community engagement: Evidence from rural Sierra Leone[J],2021,154.
APA	Liu Y.,&Bah Z..(2021).Enabling development impact of solar mini-grids through the community engagement: Evidence from rural Sierra Leone.Energy Policy,154.
MLA	Liu Y.,et al."Enabling development impact of solar mini-grids through the community engagement: Evidence from rural Sierra Leone".Energy Policy 154(2021).