What is it about?
This study aims to explain how making the choice between renewable or non-renewable energy systems goes beyond its environmental effects. The propositions of energetic theory is empirically tested in this paper to understand the difference and effects of hard and soft energy paths, i.e. non-renewable and renewable energy systems' respective effects on rural energy access.
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Why is it important?
The democratization of energy access, which is commensurate with the ability to pursue other life opportunities such as basic living activities, work, and education, and to live a life that is healthy and comfortable, all depend upon access to energy. Rural populations are often the most affected by lack of energy access as a result of their residential location which distances them from mainline electrical grids supplied by centralized energy systems. This study validates the relevance and potentiality of renewable energy systems to reverse the situation of energy poverty experienced by oftentimes, the most politically and socioeconomically disadvantaged populations around the world.
Perspectives
How can we understand use of energy in a way that organizes people in societies, and social dynamics that could potentially perpetuate and reproduce existing socioeconomic inequalities? Energetic theory provides a key opening by critically expounding the important connections between technical and sociopolitical systems, as well as that between nature (the nature of renewable and non renewable energy) and social organization.
Dr Corinne Ong
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This page is a summary of: Choice of Energy Paths: Its Implications for Rural Energy Poverty in Less Developed Countries, Society & Natural Resources, June 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1020583.
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