Description: Das Projekt "Village scale solar systems for development: Transfer of social and technological innovations between India an Kenya (Solar Transitions)" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Research Council of Norway. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Interuniversitäres Forschungszentrum für Technik, Arbeit und Kultur (IFZ).The Project will investigate Indian experiences with the implementation and social organisation of village solar power plants in villages in Sunderban Islands in West Bengal, and their contribution to social and economic development, poverty reduction and climate adaptation. Furthermore, through action research, the project will actively transfer experiences from India to Kenya, both monitoring and influencing the adaptation of the Indian experiences to Kenyan local contexts. The project will create a local power supply project in a Kenyan village. In these ways the project will contribute to the extension of technological and organizational options available for decentralized, renewable energy supply in Kenya, and is intended to be useful for governments, development agencies, NGOs, village groups, renewable energy actors and others who are involved in the planning and implementation of solar energy and other decentralized energy options in Kenya and elsewhere. The research project will analyse the model of decentralised solar energy supply as part of an emerging and not-yet-established socio-technical system, which is still not embedded in society. The community model for solar electricity supply can also provide important lessons regarding decentralised, community based electricity supply in general. Furthermore, the project will concentrate on the process of South-South transfer of socio-technical innovations, and will identify ways in which the process of technology transfer carried out in the Project can be strengthened. Through the action research approach in this project, the researchers, practitioners and communities together can act as catalysts for technology transfer and adaptation of social and technical innovations in new contexts.
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Origins: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ? Solarstrom ? Bürgerengagement ? Stromversorgung ? Katalysator ? Solarenergie ? Technologietransfer ? Solaranlage ? Indien ? Kenia ? Dezentrale Energieversorgung ? Stromerzeugung ? Energieversorgung ? Erneuerbare Energie ? Kommune ? Schulunterricht ? Solarkraftwerk ? Sozioökonomie ? Insel ? Anpassungsstrategie ? Forschungsprojekt ? Dorf ? Energiegewinnung ? Innovation ? Monitoring ? Soziale Infrastruktur ? Sozialer Wert ? Kommunale Versorgungswirtschaft ? Wirtschaftsentwicklung ? Klimaschutz ? Klimaanpassung ? Gesellschaftliche Transformation ? Sozioökonomische Merkmale ? Kommunalebene ? Armutsbekämpfung ? Solarenergienutzung ? Handlungsbeteiligter ? Westbengalen ? Sunderban Inseln ? Angepasste Technik [Technologietransfer] ?
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Englisch/English
Time ranges: 2009-01-01 - 2013-12-31
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