Contextualizing the scope, scale, and speed of energy pathways toward sustainable development in Africa.

Faced with interrelated challenges of climate change and energy crises, Africa's future energy system orientation could be steered toward sustainable development. In this study, we contextualized diverging fossil fuels-dominated and renewable energy-based pathways toward sustainable development in Africa. A novel and sophisticated techno-economic energy modeling tool is used to describe the scope of the pathways in high geo-spatial and full hourly resolution for Africa covering the entire energy system.

The role of renewables for rapid transitioning of the power sector across states in India.

Recent events like heatwaves and abnormal rainfall are a glimpse of the devastating effects of human induced climate change. No country is immune to its effects, but a developing country like India is particularly vulnerable. This research, for the individual states of India, explores the technical feasibility and economic viability of a renewable transition pathway for the power sector.