TY  - UNPD
A1  - Kranefeld, Robert
T1  - Beyond the grid : post-network energy provision in Rwanda
T2  - Forum Humangeographie ; 15
N2  - In many parts of the world, the centralized grid provides energy to the population only to a limited extent. The electrification for sub-Saharan Africa countries is the lowest in the world, representing half of the world's population withoutelectricity. However, during the last years there has been an increased attention to rural areas in the Global South beyond the centralised grid, especially with respect to  improved possibilities  of  solar power systems. The  transition  from one dominant  form of energy provision to various alternatives includes different dimensions and depends on specific socio-spatial  contexts.  Energy  systems  are  framed  within  systems  of  spatial  practices,  performed by a variety of involved actors, like consumers, local suppliers, international for-profit companies, international  development  donors  as  well  as  national  and  regional  authorities.  As  such  power systems  arealways  cause  and  effect  of  socio-technical  change This  study  takes  the  example  of Rwanda to  analyse  the marketization of  decentralised  energy  systems.  Based  on  empirical  field work  with  energy  entrepreneurs  it  combines  Post-Colonial  Theory  with  Science  and  Technology-Studies to theorise the role of energy to the social production of space beyond the grid.
T3  - Forum Humangeographie - 15 
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53186
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-531861
SN  - 978-3-935918-25-1
SP  - 3
EP  - 137
PB  - Goethe-Universität, Institut für Humangeographie
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -