A5033480653- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- ICT Impact and Policies
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Water resources management and optimization
- International Development and Aid
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Wind Energy Research and Development
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
- Scientific Research and Discoveries
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
World Bank Group
2021-2023
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2016-2021
World Bank
2020-2021
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Agenda 2030, which comprises a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by 169 targets. 'Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all 2030' is seventh goal (SDG7). While refers more than electricity, latter central focus this work. According World Bank's 2015 Global Tracking Framework, roughly 15% world's population (or 1.1 billion people) lack many rely on poor quality electricity...
Achieving universal access to electricity is a development challenge many countries are currently battling with. The advancement of information technology has, among others, vastly improved the availability geographic data and information. That, in turn, has had considerable impact on tracking progress as well better informing decision making field electrification. This paper provides an overview open geospatial GIS based electrification models aiming support SDG7, while discussing their...
Abstract In September 2015 UN announced 17 Sustainable Development goals (SDG) from which goal number 7 envisions universal access to modern energy services for all by 2030. Kenya only about 46% of the population currently has electricity. This paper analyses hypothetical scenarios, and selected implications, investigating pathways that would allow country reach its electrification targets Two modelling tools were used purposes this study, namely OnSSET OSeMOSYS. The soft-linked in order...
Sub-Saharan Africa has been at the epicenter of an ongoing global dialogue around issue energy poverty. More than half world’s population without access to modern services lives there. It also happens be a sub-continent with plentiful renewable resource potential. Hydropower is one them, and large extent it remains untapped. This study focuses on technical assessment small-scale hydropower (0.01–10 MW) in Africa. The underlying methodology was based open source geospatial datasets, whose...
Achieving universal access to electricity by 2030 is a key part of the Agenda for Sustainable Development, and has its own Development Goal, SDG 7.1. This because services are required almost all aspects modern economy, from cooling vaccines irrigation pumping, manufacturing running business. The achievement 7.1 will require thoughtful mix policy, finance, technology be designed implemented at scale. Yet, pressing need an electrification ramp-up not unprecedented. Many countries (now...
Abstract Human settlements are usually nucleated around manmade central points or distinctive natural features, forming clusters that vary in shape and size. However, population distribution geo-sciences is often represented the form of pixelated rasters. Rasters indicate density at predefined spatial resolutions, but unable to capture actual size settlements. Here we suggest a methodology translates high-resolution raster data into vector-based clusters. We use open-source develop an...
The North Western Sahara Aquifer System (NWSAS) is a vital groundwater source in notably water-scarce region. However, impetuous agricultural expansion and poor resource management (e.g., over-irrigation, inefficient techniques) over the past decades have raised number of challenges. In this exploratory study, we introduce an open access GIS-based model to help answer selected timely questions related agriculture, water energy nexus First, uses spatial tabular data identify location extent...
The introduction of geospatial data into modelling efforts carries many advantages but also introduces numerous challenges. A common challenge is the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP), describing how results change as spatial aggregation changes. Here, we have studied MAUP in least-cost electrification modelling. We do this by assessing effects using 26 different population bases each for Benin, Malawi and Namibia. use to generate 2080 scenarios per country conducting a global sensitivity...
Roughly two billion people live in areas that regularly suffer from conflict, violence, and instability. Infrastructure development those is very difficult to implement fund. As an example, electrification systems face major challenges such as ensuring the security of workforce or reliability power supply. This paper presents results explorative methodology, where costs risks conflict are explicitly considered a geo-spatial, least cost model. Discount factor risk premium adjustments...
This paper presents the first application of scenario discovery approach in geospatial electrification modelling. 1944 simulations were constructed for Burkina Faso from a combination seven input levers, including four grid-extension strategies. The analysis identifies described by high grid electricity generation cost with an intensification strategy grid-extension, as most likely to lead Faso. Thus, avoid such cost, decisions country could be targeted either at lowering costs or choose one...
Access to modern energy services is a precondition improving livelihoods and building resilience against climate change. Still, electricity reaches only about half of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), while 40% live under poverty line. Heavily reliant on agriculture sector increasingly affected by prolonged droughts, small-scale irrigation could be instrumental for development change adaptation SSA countries. A bottom-up understanding demand associated essential designing viable...