EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS: PIVOTS FOR THE DISSEMINATION AND SUSTAINABILITY OF SOLAR PV IN RURAL AREAS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: THE CASE OF GHANA
The integration of solar PV into rural electrification programmes in the developing world has brought in its wake dissemination/adoption and sustainability challenges. In looking for ways that can enhance the wider dissemination of the technology in the developing world, some authors (e.g. Philips and Browne, 1999; Hankins, 2000) have advocated the greater involvement of the private sector. While the private sector could well play a role in the PV dissemination drive, this paper by contrast argues that effective government institutional and policy frameworks are the most pivotal elements in the drive to disseminate solar PV systems to the majority of the rural poor in the developing world, and to sustain them. Using two case studies, the paper contextualises the interrelationship between ineffective government institutional and policy frameworks and the low level of solar PV dissemination in rural Ghana as well as the lack of sustainability of PV projects.
Simon Bawakyillenuo
The University of Hull, Hull Department of Geography Cottingham Road HU6 7RX United Kingdom
国际会议
2007世界太阳能大会(Proceedings of ISES Solar World Congress 2007)
北京
英文
2007-09-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）