Unlocking the Technology Potential for Universal Access to Clean Energy in Developing Countries
Access to clean energy remains a major issue in developing countries, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, despite successive policies and the assistance of international institutions or organizations. The United Nations (UN) launched some of the most ambitious initiatives with the Millennium Developmen...
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| description | Access to clean energy remains a major issue in developing countries, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, despite successive policies and the assistance of international institutions or organizations. The United Nations (UN) launched some of the most ambitious initiatives with the Millennium Development Goals and, more recently, the Sustainable Development Goals and Power Africa, a United States (US) government initiative. Sub-Saharan Africa has an important potential in renewable energy for both biogas and solar photovoltaic energy, but they remain underexploited. This paper presents the challenges of access to clean energy in developing countries and the failure of remedial policies mostly based on public–private partnerships (PPPs) in the context of endemic poverty of rural populations. In addition, the development of modern energy technologies remains very limited. Appropriate reforms should be carried out to change the paradigm and allow universal access to clean energy. This paper also addresses the different structural barriers that hinder access to technology in Sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences of access to clean energy in the context of poverty. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3c620f8d53d948d9b2b184049c2f638b2024-03-27T13:35:53ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732024-03-01176148810.3390/en17061488Unlocking the Technology Potential for Universal Access to Clean Energy in Developing CountriesBoucar Diouf0Ekra Miezan1Department of Information Display, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02447, Republic of KoreaNopalu Institute of Science and Technology, 72 Nord Foire Azur, Dakar BP 29044, SenegalAccess to clean energy remains a major issue in developing countries, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, despite successive policies and the assistance of international institutions or organizations. The United Nations (UN) launched some of the most ambitious initiatives with the Millennium Development Goals and, more recently, the Sustainable Development Goals and Power Africa, a United States (US) government initiative. Sub-Saharan Africa has an important potential in renewable energy for both biogas and solar photovoltaic energy, but they remain underexploited. This paper presents the challenges of access to clean energy in developing countries and the failure of remedial policies mostly based on public–private partnerships (PPPs) in the context of endemic poverty of rural populations. In addition, the development of modern energy technologies remains very limited. Appropriate reforms should be carried out to change the paradigm and allow universal access to clean energy. This paper also addresses the different structural barriers that hinder access to technology in Sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences of access to clean energy in the context of poverty.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/6/1488clean energypublic–private partnershiptechnologydeveloping countriesSub-Saharan Africa |
| spellingShingle | Boucar Diouf Ekra Miezan Unlocking the Technology Potential for Universal Access to Clean Energy in Developing Countries Energies clean energy public–private partnership technology developing countries Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title | Unlocking the Technology Potential for Universal Access to Clean Energy in Developing Countries |
| title_full | Unlocking the Technology Potential for Universal Access to Clean Energy in Developing Countries |
| title_fullStr | Unlocking the Technology Potential for Universal Access to Clean Energy in Developing Countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unlocking the Technology Potential for Universal Access to Clean Energy in Developing Countries |
| title_short | Unlocking the Technology Potential for Universal Access to Clean Energy in Developing Countries |
| title_sort | unlocking the technology potential for universal access to clean energy in developing countries |
| topic | clean energy public–private partnership technology developing countries Sub-Saharan Africa |
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