M-LED: Multi-sectoral Latent Electricity Demand Assessment for Energy Access Planning

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Globally about 800 million people live without electricity at home, over two thirds of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. Ending energy poverty is a key development priority because energy plays an enabling role for human wellbeing and economic activities. Planning electricity access infrastructure and allocating resources efficiently requires a careful assessment of the diverse energy needs across space, time, and sectors. However, because of data scarcity, most country or regional-scale electrification planning studies have been based on top-down electricity demand targets. Yet, poorly representing the heterogeneity in the electricity demand can lead to inappropriate energy planning, inaccurate energy system sizing, and misleading cost assessments. Here we introduce M-LED, Multi-sectoral Latent Electricity Demand, a geospatial data processing platform to estimate electricity demand in communities that live in energy poverty. The key novelties of the platform are the multi-sectoral, bottom-up, time-explicit demand evaluation and the assessment of water-energy-agriculture-development interlinkages. We apply the methodology to the country-study of Kenya. Our findings suggest that a bottom-up approach to evaluating energy needs across space, time, and sectors is likely to improve the reliability and accuracy of supply-side electrification modelling and therefore of electrification planning and policy.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 009.2020

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Energy: Demand and Supply; Prices ; Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
• Subject: Electricity Access ; Energy Demand ; Rural Development ; Bottom-up Modelling ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; Multi-sectoral Approach ; Water-Energy-Food-Environment Nexus

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Falchetta, Giacomo ; Stevanato, Nicolò ; Moner-Girona, Magda ; Mazzoni, Davide ; Colombo, Emanuela ; Hafner, Manfred
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (where): Milano
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/223636
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET