Energize the Base of the Pyramid! Contributions to scale-up energy access in Nigeria and Senegal

• Other Authors: Verhoog, Mart (Editor), Holländer, Robert (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Germany Logos Verlag Berlin 2019
• Series: Studien zu Infrastruktur und Ressourcenmanagement 9
• Subjects: Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Energy Access; Base of Pyramid (BOP); Nigeria; Senegal
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In many countries of the Global South, energy infrastructure is holey, unreliable or simply not existent. This leads to different kinds of severe problems. Just to name a few: Family members, mostly women, spend hours every day to collect firewood for cooking. In many cases, they suffer under pulmon...