Lack of access to electricity and modern cooking fuels constitutes energy poverty. Access to modern energy requires improved technologies and financing instruments and sources. The pro-poor public-private partnership model is one useful vehicle for raising capital to finance projects. Five...

This article argues that smart grid technologies enable policy-makers and communities to successfully manage enduring energy policy concerns. It defines what ‘smart' energy technologies, grids and policies mean, and then evaluates how the smart grid can enable policy-makers to respond to an...

This article investigates the barriers to energy efficiency at the residential sector within one province in China and explores patterns of household electricity consumption. The article presents the results of a survey questionnaire distributed to more than 600 households in Liaoning Province,...

Lack of access to electricity and modern cooking fuels constitutes energy poverty. Access to modern energy requires improved technologies and financing instruments and sources. The pro poor public-private partnership model is one useful vehicle for raising capital to finance projects. Five...

What is the range and scope of externalities associated with electricity supply, energy efficiency, and transport? What research methods and techniques of valuation does the community use to monetize these externalities? What policy implications arise in terms of better governing energy and...

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ENERGY SECURITY Edited by Benjamin K. Sovacool i j Routledge j j j ^ ^ Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK C ONTENTS List of illustrations ...

1 Energy security and climate change : a tenuous link / Gal Luft, Anne Korin, and Eshita Gupta -- 2. The fuzzy nature of energy security / Scott Victor Valentine -- 3. Evaluating the energy security impacts of energy policies / David F. von Hippel. [et al.] -- 4. The sustainable development...