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| Author: | Murphy, J. T. |
| Title: | Making the energy transition in rural East Africa: Is leapfrogging an alternative? |
| Journal: | Technological Forecasting and Social Change
2001 : OCT, VOL. 68:2, p. 173-193 |
| Index terms: | ENERGY AFRICA TECHNOLOGY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study explores the potential for energy leapfrogging by examining three technological approaches targeted at rural households in East Africa: conventional grid expansion, renewable energy technologies supplying electricity, and improved cookstoves. The study identifies economic, social, political, and cultural factors limiting the ability of rural people to rapidly switch into using and/or supplying these technologies. The potential for leapfrogging may be overstated by planners and experts who focus on the technical and economic viability of the technologies while insufficiently considering the social conditions and economic realities of daily life in the region. |
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