Hydropower investments have been subject to intense criticism over environmental issues
and the common experience with cost uncertainty. In this study we address the issue of …

Electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest amongst all regions of the world. In
response, since the 1990s, the World Bank and other donors have pushed African countries …

The power sectors in most African countries face an enduring problem of poor utility
performance-electricity utilities have failed to deliver adequate, reliable, and competitively …

African countries experience persistent and serious energy outages, but while multiple
valuation studies provide estimates of the costs of electricity outages in high-income …

In this paper, we explore the practices and spaces of mobile phone charging in The Gambia
and Sierra Leone through the lens of 'electricity scarcity'as a means to conceptualise …

Examines the history of electricity provision in Africa and the effects of privatization and
infrastructure changes in energy transformation, offering a critical window into development …

This article examines growing NGO-business hybridization of nonstate service providers in a
dynamic, new sector: small-scale renewable energy in East Africa. Drawing from the …

It is well known that Africa currently has the lowest electricity access rate of any continent, a
legacy of minimal colonial investment in electricity distribution. However, that post-1960 …

Why do some states provide access to a key public good, electricity, to their citizens, while
others do not? We examine this question by explaining the remarkable differences in the …

Uganda is among the very few countries in Africa that have fully embraced reforms in the
electricity sector. These reforms that included unbundling, privatization, and the creation of …