Curbing Electricity Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa - A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach for Achieving Universal Access

This book emphasizes the critical need for a multi-dimensional approach to tackling energy poverty, advocating for an integrated strategy that addresses three interconnected dimensions: availability, accessibility, and affordability. It introduces a robust Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) framework based on a dynamic model that links off-grid energy supply to rural households primarily engaged in crop farming as a key economic activity.The framework leverages the Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NDSGA-II), a powerful multi-objective optimization technique, to balance the trade-offs between costs and revenues, ensuring the sustainable delivery of energy services to rural communities. By underscoring the interplay between availability, accessibility, and affordability, the approach reveals that while costs are primarily associated with securing energy availability, revenues are essential for enhancing both accessibility and affordability.This comprehensive and holistic strategy offers an innovative solution to the multifaceted challenges of energy poverty in rural areas, ensuring long-term sustainability and economic viability.

List of contents

Need for Low Carbon Electricity Systems.- Access to Electricity: Fundamental Challenges.- Optimised Electricity Systems.- Policy Analysis.- Economic and Social Benefits.

Product details

• Authors: Pitshou Ntambu Bokoro, Gulshan Sharma
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 21.08.2025
• EAN: 9783031900716
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3190071-6
• No. of pages: 118
• Illustrations: XVI, 118 p. 25 illus.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Soziale und ethische Themen, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Internet of things, Kybernetik und Systemtheorie, Alternative und erneuerbare Energiequellen und -technik, Renewable Energy, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Social Justice, Cyber-Physical Systems, Renewable Energies, Computational Intelligence, Electrical Power Engineering, Political Economy and Economic Systems, regional integration, Decentralised Grids, Vertically-integrated Electricity Grids, Stand-alone Systems, Privatisation, Centralised Grids, Electricity Markets