Schillebeeckx, SJD;
Parikh, P;
Bansal, R;
George, G;
(2010)
An integrated framework for rural electrification: Adopting a user-centric approach to business model development.
Energy Policy
, 48
pp. 687-697.
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.05.078.
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Abstract
Rural electrification (RE) has gained prominence over the past two decades as an effective means for improving living conditions. This growth has largely been driven by socio-economic and political imperatives to improve rural livelihood and by technological innovation. Based on a content analysis of 232 scholarly articles, the literature is categorized into four focal lenses: technology, institutional, viability and user-centric. We find that the first two dominate the RE debate. The viability lens has been used less frequently, whilst the user-centric lens began to engage scholars as late as 2007. We provide an overview of the technological, institutional and viability lenses, and elaborate upon the user-centric lens in greater detail. For energy policy and practice, we combine the four lenses to develop a business model framework that policy makers, practitioners and investors could use to assess RE projects or to design future rural electrification strategies.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | An integrated framework for rural electrification: Adopting a user-centric approach to business model development |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.05.078 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.05.078 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2012. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Rural electrification, Business model, Customer |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1363776 |
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