Title
Global Research Alliance (GRA) - Smart sustainable energy for rural community development
Author
Szewczuk, S.
von Gavel, S.
Verhagen, W.P.
Schreuder, M.H.
Marnphweli, S.
McMaster, A.
Publication year
2014
Abstract
There is a genuine opportunity for the developing world and rural areas to leapfrog the conventional Western paradigm of power. Where conventional electricity delivery is reliant on expensive, polluting and centrally controlled generation (with its spider web of infrastructure and dependence on decades-old technologies), the developing world can harness modern, low carbon, renewable, agile, smart and decentralised generation to rapidly deliver tailored, appropriate and sustainable energy, potentially with increased speed, reduced cost and better societal fit. The CSIR, together with two other members of the Global Research Alliance (GRA), TNO of The Netherlands and CSIRO of Australia and the University of Fort Hare have formed a core team to pool resources and know-how to develop a response to the Eastern Cape Provincial Government's Sustainable Energy Strategy's 9th Priority - universal access to energy. This paper will provide an overview of the comprehensively scoped energy initiative for rural community development and poverty alleviation. The scoping of this energy initiative is based on lessons learnt from extensive field work undertaken by the GRA members. © 2014 The Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Organisation:
Subject
Resilient Organisations ; Communication & Information
SBA - Strategic Business Analysis ; PNS - Performance of Networks & Services
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Energy Efficiency
Energy
Energy / Geological Survey Netherlands
Developing countries
Distributed power generation
Rural areas
Technology transfer
Developing world
Electricity delivery
Energy initiatives
Pool resources
Poverty alleviation
Rural community
Sustainable energy
Universal access
Energy conservation
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/due.2014.6827767
TNO identifier
513369
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society, Piscataway, NJ
Source
22nd International Conference on the 'Domestic Use of Energy', DUE 2014, 31 March - 2 April 2014, Cape Town, South Africa
Document type
conference paper