A Review of Energy Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa as a Transition Pathway to Energy Democracy

摘要: Energy communities have received considerable attention in the Global North, especially Europe, due to their potential for achieving sustainable energy transitions. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), less partly nascent systems many emerging SSA states. this paper, we argue that these offer an opportunity co-create can tackle access challenges faced by most countries. To understand how such are realised sub-region, undertake a systematic review of research on 46 Our findings show only few projects exhibit conventional characteristics communities; projects, local inadequately resourced institute and manage own projects. We thus look stakeholder engagement approaches propose co-design as strategy strengthening SSA. further embed our proposal democracy thinking be pathway towards equity justice conclude indeed contribute improving Africa, but they need enabling policy environment foster growth sustainability.