Tesfamichael, Meron;
(2022)
Caught between hope and reality: how citizens reconcile ambitious dominant energy imaginaries with everyday service shortfalls.
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
10.1080/1523908x.2022.2042675.
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Abstract
Anchored by ambitions of economic growth and energy security, governments in developing countries are building large-scale energy infrastructures at a fast pace. While committed to making modern energy accessible to all, many are also reconfiguring their institutions to hasten the sector transformation into a market-oriented entity. In some cases, these ambitious agendas are also being pursued in the context of deteriorating infrastructure and supply shortfalls. The paper uses the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) to explore how political elites and citizens construct visions of the desirable future to be realised through large scale energy projects. After documenting how dominant accounts align with and diverge from citizens expectations, the paper explores how urban households reconcile the energy abundance large-scale projects promise with their experience of inadequate and increasingly expensive access to electricity. Furthermore, noting the absence of a meaningful and effective citizens engagement in the sector governance, the paper highlights the inherent risks of large-scale projects from an energy justice perspective.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Caught between hope and reality: how citizens reconcile ambitious dominant energy imaginaries with everyday service shortfalls |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1523908x.2022.2042675 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2042675 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way |
| Keywords: | Sociotechnical imaginaries, energy governance, energy justice, hydropower dams, Africa |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10144255 |
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