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Policy perspectives on expanding cogeneration from bagasse in Malawi
journal contribution
posted on 2017-12-20, 10:07 authored by Long Seng ToLong Seng To, Kingdom Kwapata, Leonard Masala, Virginia Alonso Navarro, Simon Batchelor, Yacob Mulugetta, Andrew Barnett, Stephen KarekeziAgro-industries have the potential to make a substantial contribution to sustainable energy supply in Africa, including energy access in rural areas. This paper focuses on the drivers and barriers to wider use of cogeneration from sugarcane bagasse in Malawi as there is a potential for the technology to enable access to electricity in rural areas. The paper gives an overview of the policy landscape for the energy sector and the sugar industry in Malawi. The research involved site visits, focus group discussions, and individual semi-structured interviews with participants from key government departments, businesses, research institutes and international agencies. It was found that energy sector reform, the proposed feed-in tariff for renewable energy, and risk are the key issues for investment in this area.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
Journal of Energy in Southern AfricaVolume
28Issue
1Pages
45 - 53Citation
TO, L.S. ... et al, 2017. Policy perspectives on expanding cogeneration from bagasse in Malawi. Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 28 (1), pp. 45-53.Publisher
Energy Research Centre, University of Cape TownVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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2017-02-07Publication date
2017-02-28Copyright date
2017Notes
This paper is published by the Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-SA). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ISSN
1021-447XeISSN
2413-3051Publisher version
Language
- en